Sketchbook: Funkbro
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Howdy y'all, first year university student here in Swansea Met.
Thought i'd post up some work that i've done/working on.
C&C's welcome.
Life Drawings (Finishing these this week)
3D: (Finished and handed in)
Thought i'd post up some work that i've done/working on.
C&C's welcome.
Life Drawings (Finishing these this week)
3D: (Finished and handed in)
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Proportions, ack! This comes with time, but be aware that those are wrong, and work on correcting them! Simplify your shapes mentally until you have the right sizes worked out, then start chiseling out real forms.
Think about the weight in your figures! The most important part of any pose is how the figure is interacting with the ground. Get that motion -- the curve of the spine, the placement of the feet, whatever's going on between their head and the eath -- locked down first.
Solid start with anatomy, try to really think about how shapes relate to EACHOTHER though, not just how they exist in a vacuum. How was figure #3's shoulder terminating into his arm? How were figure #2's ribs and abs twisted and supporting his weight? This is important stuff to capture, better to simplify it than get it wrong.
I like the sense of personality you captured in all these pieces, even the prop. Now just think about pushing this stuff, jam believability and coherency into it in every place you can find.
I havent touched life drawing 2 or 3 since posting. But here's an update on the first:
It's a shame because next year i've been told that we won't be getting life drawing classes
Or if there's a lack of models, pay one of your classmates to do costume or clothed poses. We did this at Bournemouth, my mates a Muslim so he couldn't do the nudes.
It's not ideal and it can be hard to find the time, but it's worth the effort
Here's one of the said 'monstrosities' that i've just put through PS:
I need to have a couple of warm and cold coloured pieces amongst the 12, hence the wacky colouring.
Thanks for the input Helreaper, yeah I can see plenty I could do to improve the last one, but with the deadline I currently have i'm just trying to get them to an 'ok' standard. I'll definitely go back to them afterwards, and carry on studying the human form.
Looked into what you mentioned about the shoulder, hopefully it looks better now.
Not really liking this one overall, especially the face. Maybe I need some time away from it for abit so I can see it differently and know what to change.
Not spent much time on the legs at all, gonna carry on plowing through all 12 of the life drawings, then go back to them if I have the time before the hand in.
Look, measure, drop plumb-lines, take your time and get it right. It'll help.
After that, get all the [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Constructive-Anatomy-Dover-Books-Instruction/dp/0486211045/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337435950&sr=1-2"]Bridgman[/ame] books and go crazy
I'm currently using Sarah Simblet's Anatomy book as reference.
Finding it hard to work with these drawings, most of them date back months and are done to a pretty low standard, should of started this thread months ago while I was still having weekly classes, that way I could of taken the feedback with me to classes...
Anyway, here's another one, in dire need of doing a leg study...
Faces:
Random drawings:
Working on a Zombie, will get everything roughed out then go back in for detailing.
I like the anatomy of the face right now, feel there's too much going on with it though, probably going to rework the details.