The Anatomy Thread of ceruleanvii - 2D

#141

We had a nice long pose the other night, about 1 1/2 hours. I was able to get a pretty decent drawing just sticking with pencil - was going to put the muscles in, but decided just to do the figure. I cropped in and painted it up in Photoshop later at home - lots of guessing and improvising on coloring while trying to keep the underlying drawing intact.

I’m going to miss this class.

Looking at the continuing ed offerings for the fall… two possibilities… there’s a portrait drawing class with a teacher who’s supposed to be excellent, and a basic perspective drawing class with a teacher no one knows anything about… it actually sounds a little too basic, so I’m leaning towards the portrait class, but I’m going to see if I can sit in on the start of both and decide.

#142

Hey Del! Awesome start on the new guy!:buttrock: It is delightful to see the range of colors you use for the skin! Btw, where can we see some of your 3d work? :stuck_out_tongue:

#143

Thanks Anand - I don’t do 3D anywhere near as cool as the stuff you do though! I’m a generalist - lots of lighting, shading, camera moves, a little modeling, zzzz.

I’m still working on this guy, that long arm really defines the pose, trying to get that right, it’s tricky… some details, texturing as I go - because it’s fun :slight_smile: Going to refine the shell next.

#144

HEY …Del…:slight_smile:

The guy in the shell painting.

BEAUTIFUL CONCEPT,…AND PAINTING…:thumbsup:

INSPIRED, AND ALSO …VERY INSPIRING…:arteest:

ALWAYS A PLEASURE VISITING YOUR THREAD…:slight_smile:
KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC WORK DEL…:thumbsup:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

#145

hey del

that last drawing is AMAZING! it looks so realistic, from colors to pose. I think you nailed the arm :applause:

awesome stuff!

-Micah

#146

hi del,

i really dig your skintones and your patience to render out everything so smoothly.
btw, you really seem to have a faible for naked boys, dont you? :smiley:

bye

#147

Thanks for the encouragement, Glenn, and thanks Micah - glad you think the arm looks right!

shapemaster, thank you - and guilty as charged, I guess :wink: In my defense, the anatomy class I’ve been taking over the past year has only had a male model. But yes, I do prefer painting males. Whenever I give my husband a hard time about checking out other women, he says “Eh, you just go back to painting your naked young men.” What can I say? :slight_smile:

#148

Hi Del,

Wow, your new painting is absolutely breathtaking! Amazing details. I like the contrast beteen your usual magical skin tones and the seriousness of his expression. It already looks very refined, but can’t wait to see the finished piece.

I am sorry to hear that your figure class got cancelled. I hope your new class is good, whichever one you end up taking.

#149

Thanks Heozart! I think the figure is pretty well done, but I’m going to show a printout to my anatomy teacher tonight at the last class, I guarantee you he will find some anatomical errors :slight_smile: The main thing left is the shell, pearly part is easy, the chambers and siphuncle (that’s the tube that connects the chambers - who knew?) are harder to figure out what to do with… but I hope to finish it up soon.

In other news… Transmute (the bone wing guy) got into Exotique 4 - wow, I am very surprised and happy!!! :eek: Thanks everyone for your feedback and comments when I was working on that one, it helped a lot. I’ve never seen anything I’ve done in print before, so this is a big first for me.

#150

WOW, Del!! CONGRATULATIONS!!:applause:

#151

HEY…DEL…A BIG CONGRATS FROM ME…:thumbsup: :applause: You deserve to get in there,…your paintings are really …BEAUTIFUL…:arteest:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#152

Woohoo!
Congratz Del!

It’s such a wonderful painting, it would have been strange if it wasn’t selected :slight_smile:

#153

Thanks Anand, Glenn and Johan! I’m very excited, and it’ll be so neat to see the whole thing, Ballistic books are always beautiful.

I have a Deviant Art gallery and yesterday that image (transmute) was featured as one of the Daily Deviations (their front page). In one day something like 12,000 people looked at it, pretty wild, and humbling, to realize your stuff is being viewed by so many people. eeek!

I’m still working on the shell painting. I took a printout to my anatomy teacher last week and as usual he came through for me - the elbow was too low, made the upper arm too long. I could tell something was off, but didn’t know what, and as soon as he said it, I totally saw it.

I am going to miss that man.

A revised elbow, and I’ve started painting up the chambers of the shell, which is even harder than I thought it would be, but kind of fun in a weird way.

…

Last week I briefly re-visited the idea of going back to school - for a medical illustration degree. This is something I wanted to do when I first started college ages ago, but I ended up going into computer graphics instead. But it turns out they want all kinds of science prerequisites before you can apply - comparative anatomy, histology, embryology - I’d have to take about 2 years of college courses (at night, ugh, since I have to work) before I could even be considered. So… that’s out. Maybe in my next life.

#154

Hm yeah I uinderstand your frustration…

I was looking at going for an illustration degree myself… only during daytime… (when I’m supposed to be at the office)

It seems education isn’t just available for everyone, not even in western countries :eek:

So what is your deviant account called?

#155

my DA account is in my sig - same screen name as I use here.

I think the thing is, more so than the educational system… it’s the whole 21st century way of life - you get to a certain point where your commitments and responsibilities make it very difficult to change the direction you’re headed in. Not complaining about my life - just wish I knew when I was 20 what I know now…

Hmm, I’m getting rather philosophical for a sketchbook thread, so I’ll just stop :slight_smile:

#156

Hi Del :slight_smile:

Such lovely updates! Congratulations too on your DeviantArt gallery! Agree that your
work is totally deserving of views and praise :wavey::love:

I hope you do find an alternative in terms of study - class - group…
Most people don’t know what they really want to do in life at 20… then later
the possibilities of embarking on a different road are thwarted by juggling life committments.
I was lucky in some way I guess because I started training in art full-time
when I was 16, but then I still was young and probably approached a fair bit of my early training in a ‘happy-go-lucky’ kind of way (too busy being young :D).

Art is a journey; the main thing is that you keep at it :slight_smile:

cheers :slight_smile:

#157

anyone know anything more about this course, anyone taken it (or similar) before?

http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courses/000082/

Matte Painting with David Luong…

I’m interested because I’d like to improve the way I set up backgrounds, deal with lighting, atmosphere, perspective, etc. But I’m not crazy about being dependent on photos for everything, I want to be able to paint these things myself… Plus I have no access to Nuke, which is one of the required softwares - I do have Photoshop, Maya, and AE.

If anyone has any more info or thoughts to offer, please respond or feel free to PM me -

Thanks!

Del

#158

I finished up the guy in the shell painting last week and put it on my portfolio page - added refinements and details, and ended up having him sitting on some reflective water as a way to “ground” him. I’m fairly happy with how it turned out, though I’m very glad to be done with it.

Also started my portrait drawing class yesterday. Meh, I’m having a hard time getting excited about it. Well, at least it may be a good excuse to do a decent drawing of one of the kids.

I miss my anatomy class :frowning:

I’m realizing more and more that I much prefer painting to drawing. Which is kind of bad, I guess, if drawing is supposed to be the “foundation” of art?

As far as digital paintings, I’m picking up an old one I’d started back a few months ago (october, the guy with the leaves and the bright blue sky) and never finished. I’m also starting a new one, concept is strange and kind of hard to explain - a sort of nostalgic tribute to Star Wars, pop stars, fantasy/reality. Still very much in the values/blocking out stage, here’s a portion of it:

and… The guy will be wearing clothing! Of some sort. At least some pants :slight_smile:

We’ll see how it goes -

#159

Hi Dell,

Awesome job on the shell guy painting! I think the surface looks more like a hard reflective floor than water, but probably because I usually don’t see people sitting on water.

Your new WIP looks already substantial. Can’t wait to see the progress on that one.

I added you to friends on DeviantArt. Hope you don’t mind. Love your new kittens!

#160

Thanks Heozart - I’ve added you to my friends over there too :slight_smile:

The kittens are great! They’re starting to go crazy with the running around and getting into stuff - lol they’re nuts.