here I did a quick two-toned drawing. I wanted to use colour to easily identify the difference between the outline and detail. I used a pencil to display some of my construction as well. I wanted to use blue to display the shadows betty from the red and be able to shade it properly. I Read More…
Category: Sketchbook Reportage
a collection of self-directed studies and homework for drawing practices. These are blogs talking about practices that I’ve done to improve my drawing capabilities.
Long Pose Exercise 3
For this long pose, I drew it for roughly 2o minutes. my goal was here was to take the practice that I learnt from the other 2 long poses and then attempt to draw a nicely proportional and well-formed pose of him. I manage to after completing it in 20 odd minutes draw a fell Read More…
Long Pose Exercise 2
This is another long pose that I did to help assist my ability to properly draw proportions and to work out shape and sizes. for this long pose, I drew roughly for 30 minutes. The goal was to have the proportion and shape correct to everything and I feel like I’ve done a good job. Read More…
Gesture Drawings Exercises 2
Here I did some gesture drawings of certain intervals. I tried to draw the person pose and basic form as quickly as possible. Here I attempted to get the pose down as quickly as possible. I wanted to be able to get the basic form down quickly and improve the speed of my drawing. I Read More…
Dance Video Gesture Drawing Exercise
For this selection of drawing, I did quick gesture drawings of the Les Twins World of Dance performances. The point was to quickly improve my ability to draw gestures and be able to recall gestures better. I also used the video to be able to learn to draw different and difficult pose better and learn Read More…
Shadow Mapping Exercises
For shadow mapping, I drew the shadows on the person to get the pose roughly down. It helped me map out the details as well as give a rough form of the character. With a few measuring techniques it also gave a well-proportioned form as well. I also made it so that one of the Read More…
Negative Space Practise
here I shade the negative space around the pose of a person of reference. I used a line of action as a reference to capture a relatively accurate proportioned version of the person in the positive space. the negative space draws helped me understand the position of the body using the shapes of the negative Read More…
Line of Action Practise
For this practice, I use images from articles in Grantham journal to drawing the line of action of people posing for a different photo in the articles. The goal was to be able to get the poses down using the line of action to quickly distinguish the position of their stance. Then I drew shapes Read More…
Long Pose Exercise 1
here I took a reference image of a pose from the Quickpose website and did a long pose drawing of the reference provided. the goal was to accurately get proportions down and start to be able to more freely e able to correctly get the proportions people down when drawing characters and so forth. I Read More…
Head Drawing Practise
Here I decide on developing my understanding of developing and drawing heads. I understand that a lot of the shape and understanding of the head comes from the skull, so I put it into practice on learning how to draw and develop different parts of the skull. I used different skull references and videos on Read More…