Sweet, got it thanks
Do you work in any art related jobs?

How many hours a day do you draw?

Not right now, I'm actually going back to school to study 3D animation and CGI. My previous job was in quality assurance lol.

And to answer your second question, I try to put in a minimum of 20 hours a week. But to be honest, at some point, the only thing on my mind is either drawing something or figuring out how to draw something. Most of the forums I go to are art related, most of my question are about fine arts, and now my friends know me as an artist (more than just a drinking buddy!). So to a certain degree it pretty much consumes most of my waking hours in some way, shape or form!




And here's what I took time to figure out today. Locating the major muscles of the legs in space (much easier if I had a live model).

Also, where do you find these references at to draw? Like at the start of the forums you say you use references. Any location on good pictures to use for life drawing?

I've spent a lot of time searching for reference photos. I've never drawn from life, so its my only source of models. My favorite places are characterdesigns.com and deviantart.com. At deviantart, I just go into Resources > Stock Photos > Models and find lots of cool stock photography of people.





... Today's Update: Some 5-6 minute gesture drawings today. I'm pretty damn slow at gestures, but I picked two that I liked from the batch.

brilliant work. I wish I had more time to work from live reference

@suburbbum: Thanks. Me too actually, I've never had a chance to work from live model. I always just draw from photograph.




... Today's Update: Some more charcoal on newsprint. Trying to retain as much Hampton technique as I can while its still fresh. :p

... Today's Update: Slightly frustrated. There is nothing more of a buzz kill when you set up a figure, only to realize you lost yourself in the process! Noobie mistake, I'm sure. But for today, I've had enough. Tomorrow is another day.

panda are you familiar with VirtualPose? I've rarely had time to work with live models, so this has been a godsend. Still not as good as the real thing, but it's about 90% of the way there.

That certainly does look excellent. I have a book from the "Art Models" series that basically has the same thing, except its a series of photos instead of a video. And my biggest feature suggestion would be to have the light source track the model. Instead of remaining fixed while the model rotates. Since the model and lighting change in each picture, it has entirely different lighting information shot after shot. Making it less helpful (for me anyways) than to have taken multiple shots of a fixed model and light. I'm not sure if that makes sense. But I'll definately check this one out further, thanks for the link.

Today's update: Finishing up an old painting I started earlier in this thread.

panda, way to step up your game! your color use has improved as well. I really dig the style you're putting together for yourself. Do you plan on doing more colored pieces?

it is a delight to go through your sketchbook pages of anatomy/ poses studies.

keep it up

Mannnn man man, it is a pure pleasure to look through this thread.

Ashamedly, I hadn't checked in here for a while but I'm blown away with what I'm seeing. Seriously fantastic work man, you got style for sure!

First time i see this thread and I think that there is a little bit of too much awesomness in there ;)

Wow! Blown away by these sketches, excellent stuff. Loved seeing the progression of that painting (which turned out fantastic). Really excited to see more .

@bounchfx: I want to! I currently use a color overlay method of "painting" right now, and I find that limits me. I'd love to do more colored work in traditional oil painting.

@eCzety: Thank you kindly!

@Tom Ellis: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it buddy!

@GoSsS: Stick around, it really only has the minimal amount of awesome. lol. But seriously, thank you for the kind words.

@paulsvoboda: Thanks!




..... Today's update: Haven't drawn in so long. Practicing my line drawing. Used an old magazine ad with a very beautiful Japanese woman. Hope to color this one if I can figure out an easier method than my previous work.

I thought I'd attempt a line and crosshatch study of the next Lara Croft. I love her new look, but I don't think I captured it quite the way I'd have liked to... Pretty girls are so difficult to shade on the tablet.

A return to figure drawing. Attempt at the filtering out of non-critical details.

<img src="http://www.polycount.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4251&stc=1&d=133392983 8" />

... yeah I definately did not do that right.

Incredibly good stuff!

Your graphite work makes me wanna put aside my Wacom pen and pull out my sketchbook and 3B pencil. I think I'm gonna do so right away.

BEAST, fantastic stuff here, very impressed. Could you do us a favor and edit the last few posts with the image embedded for read(/view)ability? You can wrap img tags around a polycount attatchment link!

Can you share anything about your (mental) process with these poses? Also, about what size are the pencil drawings?

loving the linequality of those drawings! gj

@kevlar jens: Your sculpting also puts me to shame. Thanks tho!
@Ravenslayer: Thanks!

@Joseph Silverman:
I generally think little and just squint / filter as much as possible. My goal is to use straight lines and curved lines one after the other in the simplest fashion until I see the shape of a human body. Of course it helps to know a moderate level of anatomy and sight-size drawing method. Other than that, it involves shutting off your noisy thinking brain, but leaving on all the visual and instinctual parts. Hope that helps, and thank you!

edit: Oops, forgot the second question. I use a 9x12 drawing pad; pretty standard. The brand is canson... I think its like $4. One tip I was taught is that the medium absolutely does not matter. Next time I will figure draw with a sharpie marker. Then after that I might do crayons. Then maybe I'll try pencil crayon. If I have the extra money I will do it in brushed ink. I was told to experiment, so that is what I'll do! Hope that helps.

Second page of tonight. Started to get sloppy, so I had to call quits.

This 15 minute warm-up sketching is all I could muster before dropping tired. Attempt at switching back to charcoal. I was actually drawing with a highlighter before this, maybe I'll post that tomorrow haha.

The atelier was too expensive (imo). I went today and he was charging almost $400 for 4 days of classes. When I met him I got the sense I wouldn't get much coaching during those drawing sessions. So I'm opting to keep teaching myself until something better comes along.

Today's Update:
Some figure studies. Nothing out of the ordinary, just pushing on.