Low angle poses, part 3

Practice with the low angle figure drawing continues. I was mostly doing sketches this week. You might think that’s me taking a shortcut, but with the refinements to shading styles I’m trying out, they usually take longer than the simplified paints. I’m starting to like my ink shade results. Where you see the capsule figures to the side, that’s evidence of my procedure. I draw a simplified figure over the reference, then hide the reference and do a freehand version of the mannequin. Then I show the reference and draw the figure over the freehand capsule sketch. Shading guides and shading are the last steps.

Discrepancies between the “traced” capsule figure and the final sketch are my own errors, and what I am practicing to minimize. They are definite improvements over the versions before I did that step.