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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #35
🕑 Added 2019-12-02 14:00:08 +0000 UTCYet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from January 2017, very early on in the effort; yes, folks, 35 weeks into this Patreon, we've finally left 2016's sketch sets behind!
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
TOMORROW: Time for one last sketch dump based on your November art requests. Emp dancing, upside-down-kissing and lip-biting! Planet Terror narrowly escapes being confused with Galaxy of Terror! Red Sonja, possibly drawn by me for the first time! All this, and so much more!
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Adam Warren
Ehh, I think the main difference is that I became more confident with my rendering scheme, even though it's the same "back & forth pencil squiggle" technique used with both of 'em. The focus has mainly been on shading (as my shading skills have always been repetitive and unimaginative), while hopefully picking up more anatomical familiarity along the way. I do STRONGLY recommend a daily sketching regimen, though a more systematic, analytical approach (doing the exercises from a Proko YouTube anatomy video, say) would be more rewarding than my haphazard choice of subjects.
Jon
Great stuff, like always! Don't know if it's been mentioned but you're older drawings look more construction focused with body mechanics while the newer ones feel more detail focused. Is this a conscious move to get those details into the old visual library? Or a natural shift in what interests you? The artistic aesthetic (whatever that is), I guess the 'nice-to-look-at-ness' is definitely improved so much in the later ones. Do you practice this stuff with firm purpose and specific goals or is the goal just to complete a session each day? Sorry for all the questions. I'm really inspired to do a daily set like this in pencil and stick to it solely for a couple years and see how my work improves. Sometimes I find there are so many things I feel I should study that I'm either spread too thin or waste time trying to figure out what to stick with.
