Month: May 2023
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Painting tutorial with Ahmed Aldori
Marek, the new instructor at Love Life Drawing, keeps linking to fascinating YouTube painting tutorials, and I’m inspired to try my hand working through them. This one, from Ahmed Aldori, was especially impressive for walking through techniques I did not have my head around in terms of brush strokes, simplification, and impression. I like the…
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Study group – hips & glutes 4
This week we extend our learning of hips & glutes anatomy to anchor some figure drawings. I’m generally pretty happy with the results, even if the shading gives them all a kind of metallic look. I don’t fully have the swing of terminator lines yet, but they’re not terrible. What I’m happy with is my…
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Study group – hips & glutes 3
In the Love Life Drawing study group, we are now ready for the actual anatomy of hips and thighs, albeit a little bit simplified. I think these are some of the best bones I’ve drawn, and probably the best diagram overall. It’s fascinating to me the impact fat has on this area, and the way…
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Aftyn face study
I’ve been working on some drawings of Aftyn from imagination — full body poses — and struggling with getting facial likeness at that distance. The eternal struggle! After four disappointing attempts at the target resolution, I decided to draw a close-up with the intention of shrinking it down and drawing over it with a simplified…
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Study group – hips and glutes 2
LLD study group hips and thighs month, part 2, looking at the front of the figure. This one got pretty concrete about the orientation of the pelvis, something I was pretty weak on before. It also started with those same tapered cylinders for the thighs (AKA conic sections), but then he gave a slightly more…
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Study group – hips and glutes 1
New month, new challenge in the Love Life Drawing study group: hips, thighs, and glutes. This is an anatomy topic, but rather than getting into the technical aspects of the bones and muscles, we’re starting with basic, simplified forms. The drawings are anchored around the the little triangle formed by the hip bones and butt…
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Lyra’s perfect day
Lyra and Aftyn have been a team for a long time. I decided some time ago I wanted to do a portrait of them together. The concept is: what would make for an ideal day for a happy dog? Relaxing and playing with her favorite person. I found the reference for the image on the…
