Doodle time

Also, since I've not been able to update my blog in a while because of traveling, here are some simple free time doodles I've been using my little sketchbook for. See if you can recognize which movie the second one is from? Hint: Samuel Jackson sings the blues. good luck guessing!



   

Life Drawing for June

The last few weeks I've been trying to get familiar with the human figure (mostly female, because I felt like they need more attention) by practicing figure drawing online, which admittedly is not the same as having a real person in front of you, but you make do with what you can. Most of these samples are very clean cut because for now i just want to figure out the form in its entirety because getting more experimental with it.

I would say for pictures, the benefit that they have is being stable in position, so you can always get a more accurate drawing rather than having to keep readjusting the drawing to suit the subtle movements and jerks of the life model in an uncomfortable posture. Some may argue there is nothing that can replace those little jerks and trembles in giving life to the drawing. and I would agree to that. It is a good reminder that what we are drawing is real so we can try to distinguish whether we are trying to try from memory rather than really looking at the figure. But that is for a later time I think, after the mind has developed  a good understanding of what it is trying to draw, but for now, here is a sample of life drawing practice studies that maybe range from 5 to 10 minutes each.

Most of these images I've used are from the online figure drawing website http://artists.pixelovely.com which is a great site for trying to draw animal figures and human ones, with timings that you can choose, with options to pause, or skip forward or backwards to the next image.

Let me also add that i would prefer to use a scanner but for the lack of one currently I just take photos with a digital camera, which would explain why the lighting is uneven in many of the drawings. It'sso the best I can do for now, so sit back relax and scrutinize.

Animal Walk Cycle Exercise

Rather than put up a lot of animations, because that would take numerous blog posts, here is the most recent one, The animal attitude walk cycle exercise, in which we were allowed to choose and research any quadrupedal (or more than 4) animal, fictional or nonfictional, to develop a style for and give an exaggerated walk. And so i chose the dragon. The Komodo Dragon. The only non-fictional dragon in current existence is deserving of attitudinal depiction me thinks.

Summer BREAK? I think not :D

Okay, I've wanted to start this for a while, but with University projects taking priority, the idea of maintaining a blog became suppressed to simply a whim. No longer!!
There will always be work, but life goes on. So this summer, starting this blog will aim to be a diary of progress, and an organized collection of work from recently and beyond, featuring both self directed work and University projects.

With this first blog, I think I'll start by posting a couple of life drawings from the last term of the first year of my University degree course, perhaps followed by a couple of animation exercises accomplished during the same term.

Let it Ripp!! :)

and the first thing i noticed is how i avoided putting up female model life drawings because I don't think my portrayal of them is worthy enough yet. Let that be a reminder and promise to myself to focus on female study this summer as the first thing.
Animations await!