Developing Motifs For Graphic Novel
I have really been learning a lot about drawing in the last year, and it's been a while since I drew, but tonight I sat down and back to the basics. I am developing a graphic novel with human characters, and unfortunately I've spent the last decade or so studying big cats, wolves, and horses. I am really not comfortable with the human form. Luckily there's so much out there resource-wise that I feel like I learned a lot even in this lesson.
These start out really stiff, but I get better. The top pics are my final sketches of the session and they just get progressively worse because I took pics backwards. I really wanted to just get a handle on good shapes and thinking in 3D, while also doing formal timed gesture work. Most figures were a minute or 120 seconds. A few I spent a little longer on. I'm really trying to put down gesture, put down 3D shapes, and get strong, comic-style lines when they're combined. I really got comfortable with pushing my angles towards the end, and I got some really good poses. I did the "warrior" set over at Quickposes. A lot of my characters will have swords and traditional weapons, so I wanted to practice combat poses.
I have recently been ever so humbled by what I don't know about drawings, so please, critique away. I am doing bare bones fundamentals here. I want to draw five hundreds of these guys, but I want to practice better each time.
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