All over the place

This month I have been doing a lot of sketching and working out separate issues with anatomy, dealing with the figure in pieces. A lot of that coincided with going over the 'parts' for my figure drawing class.
It is good stuff to review.

Now I'm turning to the gesture and trying to do more full figures in an effort to put everything (all the parts) together. Gesture and proportion are still complicated issues for me - they are a struggle. I am not inclined to pretend I have a better grasp of them  than i do or ignore how hard it can be to capture the the figure in a simplified form, so I keep at it. Last week I started re-watching some of the Glenn Vilppu    videos on gesture and basic forms of the figure and they are slowly sinking in.

Also I'm doing some long overdue inking

And as if that weren't enough, I feel like starting some new paintings too! 

I just hope I find time to do it all. 

Thursday and Friday drawings

sketches:

drawings from convocation

final pencil drawing 11x17

re-figurng the figure

next up - legs!

Had a busy week last week and a painfully short weekend so I spent most of my free time working on art stuff.

Finished penciling the last of a 6 page story last night around midnight. I have a few corrections to make before inking it.

Today I lettered it and managed to knock out a page of hasty torso studies in my sketchbook. The middle one os from memory, the others are from reference.
 
Hopefully next week I'll have more time during the week to do art. Cramming it all into the weekends is a bit of a stretch.

just keep drawing...

A few figures from an old (year 2000) book on fashion illustration called "Fashion Images."

I had to really push myself to get some drawing done tonight. My worry is that I have been looking at anatomy as a bunch of separate parts for a while and I really need to focus on the entire figure as a whole. Gonna do my best over the next few days to keep drawing complete figures as well as anatomical parts.

After a long day at work it is really hard to sit down with a pencil and paper. Glad I did it though.

sketching - a page a day

Thanks to mjranum on deviantart for the photo reference http://mjranum-stock...ancer-196677617 

skull heads

yesterday's page