Hmm, her face looks a little mannish to me...?
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I finished the painting on Saturday, but had to deliver it right away as a birthday present to a friend, so I didnt have time to take my own picture of the final. He said he would send one to me.
I have been drawing, just havent had a camera available for a few days.
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oh man those latest sketchbook pages are sweetness. I especially like the face on the top of the second page. Arm/hand on the last is coolio as well.
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beautiful renders man, i especially like the looseness in the first page.
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Bridgeman is helping you already. The second page is nice.
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What is Brigeman? Can it help me too?
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http://www.amazon.com/Constructive-Anatomy-Dover-Books-Instruction/dp/0486211045
Yes it can help you too.
I believe you can actually get some of his work on the interwebz for free, cant remember if it's this book though.
Either way it'll be the best $ 8.95 you can spend. His book " The Human Machine" is good as well. -
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131117
Bridgeman and other amazing books can be found here. I actually have a hard copy of Constructive Anatomy (bought for 25 cents at an annual book sale/fundraiser my hometown used to hold) and honestly I don't find it as helpful as some others. It gives a piece by piece breakdown which is fine (when supplemented by a book focusing on holistic method and procedure, like Loomis) but it's drawn in an extremely distinctive, personal way, which I think further obfuscates the realities that it's trying to present. -
Thanks guys
Ive arranged for models over the course of the summer, here is the first session, rusty
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go ret go!
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tryin, will
And cow,
It gives a piece by piece breakdown which is fine (when supplemented by a book focusing on holistic method and procedure, like Loomis) but it's drawn in an extremely distinctive, personal way, which I think further obfuscates the realities that it's trying to present.
The distinctiveness, I feel, is a useful abstraction. Its not obfuscation, its a teaching tool. Arms dont look like that, but the exxaggeration of the forms allows us to remember easily the basic masses (whose interactions are anything but basic).
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YES, retro, damn
youre one of the quicker improving dudes around, this last page is lookin crazy
i urge you to hang on to that style, at least put it in your pocket, those abstractions and the definition of the muscles with the harsh, quick, almost gritty hatching is really fuckin working, i wanna see some full poses sketched like that man
the abstrations and the style to the lines is very unique, the abstration you got seems like a comic book hero meets rennaissance "bubbling muscle" sorta style thats catching on a lot right now
that bottom right arm is just so super sick!
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I would not have the patience to mark a page up all like that around the stuff.
This is awesome. Your thread is candy, man. You the candyman, man.
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Top_Bug: Thanks. Keep in mind this is all from a book, I'm not actually awesome, just an improving draftsman. However, I think this method of study will always stay with me anyways; Bad artists copy, good artists steal.
Xion: The little hatchies make it all worthwhile, I love going through that motion and filling out the page, I think its good to build muscle memory for those little kind of marks. Thank for the props.
yawn
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The bridgeman's are looking good. I don't know what your aim is with these posed drawings but I believe you should work on more than just contours. Work on the 2 tone statement, separating the shadows from the lights and drawing that in, and fill in the shadows, you can have contours around the lights and stuff but really try to work on reproducing SHAPES you see, using LINES as a tool to get them, as opposed to just drawing lines. This is why I feel your 10 minute ones are the strongest, but only because you're starting to work with the light and shadow shapes, but you don't need 10 minutes to do that, you can do it in 5, or even 1.
Im sure you've seen this thread before at concept art. They obviously do a great job in the time given.
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You hit the nail on the head again, I'm going to work on that. Good thread choice too, see exactly what you're saying.
give us this day our daily bridgman and delivery us from not knowing where the supinator longus is.
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your confidence in your lines is starting to show my friend
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Thanks zach.
These must be boring, sorry guys. I'm trying to rework all the academic aspects of my art, just hone stuff and learn as much as I can. Every drawing feels like a judgment on my future, I want to be better.
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I may have to join you with your bridgeman studies. Skipped around it for a little bit but that was around a year ago. Keep going. Can't wait to see what you create with all the gained knowledge.
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Do it! I did the same thing, skimmed it a few years back, but I feel like a more systematic study is much more beneficial now. I think it would be especially good for your demon works, an even more educated understanding of muscle forms and uses can only make them better.
Stuff from yesterday
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Haha my demon works? I guess that'll be what I'm known for when im dead :]
Your second life drawing has some nice LINES and gesture to it. Even they way it's placed in the picture has a nice composition.
But you still have a lot of lines that are completely unnecessary ( with the exception of #2) If you'd like, during your next session, instead of having 5 MINUTES to draw, you get 5 STROKES to draw, no more no less, then go to 10, and 20 and so on. this doesn't mean you cant shade either, use the side of the charcoal just like you do to envelop the figures, just place the strokes inside the form instead of outside.Of course, this is me not cookie cutting it or whatever the analogy is. Your drawings are always improving.
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Good excercise idea, I'll try it.
guys im secretly rick ross
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you are all taking this stunning realization very well
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Hey hey i'm seein some nice shadows. Your 5 minutes are beginning to look like the 10 minute ones from before. Damn I need to get a model D:
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Good tip. Hurry up on that model, I may have second and thirds lined up already
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Hurry up? I'm still trying to catch up with you! Doing two bridgeman pages and a painting a day DDD:
Keep on truckin' Try not to get stuck with these dry media though, take some time to experiment! I despised even the thought of gouache until I actually TRIED it! Now watercolors and an opaque black and white are my favorite sketching tools!
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you thought i forgot
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quickfire
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