Tag: figure
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Hampton, part 3
My figure drawing work continues. This week’s work spans two segments of the book, so I apologize for the big swing. In these first couple, we’re rounding up the gesture section. Gesture drawings are about curve, animation, capturing the spirit of a movement. These drawings should be fast, and should never look stiff. Mine still…
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Hampton, part 2
Learning from Michael Hampton’s Figure Drawing: Design and Invention continues with a further 6 pages with of sketches. The book isn’t giving work assignments (at least so far), so I’m just following along with his drawings, trying to get a feel for the rhythms and lines. I’m trying to get into the headspace. I feel…
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Hampton, part 1
I have started a new book for learning figure drawing. It is Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton. (The link is to an earlier printing, but I’m sure it’s close enough to follow along, if you were so inclined.) I remember learning about Hampton from a Proko YouTube video and being impressed with…
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Kitty smooches
I made an original painting! I was recently introduced to the world of plus-sized pinup Hilda, creation of artist Duane Bryers, and I was inspired to try my hand at a version of her. I was heavily inspired by the pose of her making a phone from a bike, but most of the elements of…
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Aftyn figure studies 3
I had a confidence setback recently in my art skills, and wanted to salve that hurt by going back to some drawings of my favorite subject, Aftyn Rose. These are five figure studies rendered as nudes from a variety of non-nude sources. The bottom two drawings, sourced from one of my favorite videos, I did…
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Thoughts on the Aftyn Center posts
I finally finished and posted the whole Aftyn Center story. It’s been a real journey! When I started drawing as a teenager, comic books were my guiding light. It was a dream to draw my own stories. Obviously in this case I didn’t do anything as bold as drawing it as a comic, but putting…
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Aftyn center, part 3
The ghost girl rushes from room to room, looking in panic for a way to stop what’s going on. She no longer has lungs, but still her breath comes in ragged gasps. “What can I do?” she cries. “They’ll kill him! Or worse!” She passes through walls like they were curtains.
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Study group – Figure 5 ways 4
Concluding the Love Life Drawing study group’s “Figure 5 ways” month, we have a series of figure drawings that attempt to synthesize all the lessons. I built these figures in phases, using simple forms, gesture, values, and anatomy to piece together a final rendering. Marek drove a fair amount of this month, and he brought…
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Study group – Figure 5 ways 3
Marek, critiquing my effort from the first week suggested my value study would be improved by focusing on the light shapes instead of the shadow shapes. To achieve that, I started with a darker background and just draw light blobs and tried to scrub them into the right shapes. I did that once before to…
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Study group – figure 5 ways 2
Our multi-discipline figure drawing month continues. Last week we did a survey of all 5 approaches to figure drawing — simple forms, gesture, anatomy, values, full figure drawing. This week we’re focusing just on the first two of those, with some review instructional materials examining those skills in detail. Simple forms drawing breaks anatomical elements…
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Check out this butt
Monochrome drawing of Aftyn Rose showing off for her bathroom mirror before a shower. This is a return to an earlier piece I never thought was quite good enough. Because I have been using Aftyn drawings as a way to exercise my anatomical knowledge, I have also opted to remove her shirt. (And, you know,…
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Study group – figure 5 ways 1
It’s a new month and a new topic for the Love Life Drawing study group. The new topic: drawing the figure with five different approaches. We have practiced each of these, so this acts as a review, a kind of synthesis, and a way of highlighting if any of the stages needs more work. We…
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Aftyn center, part 2
“All right, girls, listen up!” The room full of young demons snaps to attention, facing their leader, a rather Dangerous looking succubus with blue hair, long, coiled horns, and full, bat-like wings. “We have a level two situation developing top-side. The humans have hired a priest to drive us from our home.”
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Aftyn center, part 1
A couple years ago, I wrote a little short story inspired by the idea of an ACU — Aftyn cinematic universe. What if all her characters existed in the same world? Fan fiction, really. It’s light and fun, although I should warn it’s a little not safe for work. Once written, I didn’t know what to…
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Study group – weight and balance 4
Another large set of figures for this week’s Love Life Drawing study group as we continue with week 4 of the weight and balance unit. This week we turn our attention to figures more at rest than the dynamic one of the last few weeks. I apologize I am once again unable to share the…
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Study group – weight and balance 3
The Love Life Drawing weight and balance month went a little astray from the topic this week, I think, by focusing on capturing actions and gestural curves. Maybe next week will bring it back together. I’m pretty happy with these figures, though. They don’t have quite the flow of gestural masters, but I think each…
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Study group – weight and balance 2
This week the Love Life Drawing study group returns to the figure studies from last week, adding in a sense of “draw the verb” energy to the drawings. Does that sound vague to you? It felt that way to me! The instructions suggest we’re bringing together gesture, anatomy, and form with a big dose of…
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Study group – weight and balance 1
The Love Life Drawing study group this month is tackling questions of representing weight and balance. Kenzo posted a video some time ago talking about how to find the line of gravity on a figure, and that’s the starting point for the week’s exercises. In the drawings above, the left column of figures are drawn…
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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…
