HAIR BOT pt1

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A WIP for a practice painting hair, of all things for a robot to have (!) I have been reading a lot about paiting hair, and I wanted to try and do some studies. For this, I doodled a quick 'blank' bust, that I slowly and inexorably doodled into a robot. I quickly rendered it today and am gonna spend a coupla hours tomorrow trying to give it a bit of a barnet. Will post the finished study asap.

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This is a pen doodle that I painted in photoshop. I doodled the whole pose, but when I painted it I focused on the area I cropped.

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Once again, another group of longer studies, maybe 20-30 minutes on each one. I have very loose criteria for selecting which poses I'll spend a longer length of time on than others. Usually they're an unusual pose or the lighting on a particular body part makes for a particularly sculptural form. This is one of the advantages of Suicide Girls' photosets-- unlike other fashion/glamour magazines/websites, the models on SG are decidedly alternative and so there is very little by way of airbrushing going on. A lot of the girls are shown warts, lumps n bumps n all.

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Slightly longer studies, each drawing taking maybe 20-30mins.

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A series of drawings of Priscilla, from her photoset of the day 'Empty Spaces' on Suicide Girls. This was a very intersting photoset, as it was less glamorous than other Suicide Girls photsets and had a more artistic appearance, with the model posing in a lot of typical life drawing-y poses that were a real benefit to me.

Gesture Drawing

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This is fun for Adams. Quick (5mins) sketches of full length figures, not paying too much attention to details and next to no tonal shading, just concentrating on how the figures plant their feet, distribute their weight and hold themselves expressively. The idea is that by doing a bunch of these everyday, when I come to drawing a figure from imagination my characters have less awkward puppety poses.

Poor Man's Life drawing

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It's not quite right to describe this as 'life' drawing, as they are studies taken from photo ref. But whilst I have to work a full time job to keep a roof over me head, I am unable to attend a regular life drawin class where I can study a real life model. Drawing from photos is definitely a poor alternative to actual life drawing, but is beats sitting around thinking about doing some drawing.

Weekly Sketchbook Dump 5/5

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The final uploaded set of sketches for this week, another study from Suicide Girls. In the topmost sketch I deliberately avoided rendering the model's clothing which helped me concentrate on the model's anatomy. I included a couple of messy gesture drawing of other poses for extra interest.

Weekly Sketchbook Dump 4/5

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I found this a lot of fun to do. Each pose was 3-5 minutes, focusing on the gestures and proportions rather than the details.

Weekly Sketchbook Dump 3/5

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As in previous weeks, I have been doing a lot of observational drawings from Suicide Girls Photoset of the day. This is the first time I have ever tried to digi-paint from photoref. This painting took about 15 mnutes ans then I abandoned it (I had to get to work!) But I have learned that painting from photoref requires a lot of discipline, and after a while I became too dependant on the photo and my painting became even cruder than usual. Eye-dropper tool makes assessing the colours with your eyes harder too, and I will avoid it's usage in all future endeavors.