Parts study

These days, I am trying to review human/animal anatomy to improve my drawing. I used my 6 inch muscle man to do some back muscle study, but he is not good enough.

http://www.famemaster.com/show.asp?id=100&nid=0&listid=168055&i=

'caz when I look at an anatomy book, his muscle and tendon(?) don't agree with the book. It confused me.

I am seriously thinking to buy this;

http://d-anatomystore.com/human-anatomy-human-skull-highly-detailed-and-accurate-ecorche-male/

or this;

http://www.anatomyed.com/Male1_Figure_Cawrse.htm

It is not so realistic to get these dream items right now. Too bad.., so all I can do is just copy some anatomical drawing plates.... Ha-ha...

Already 11days past!

It is always surprising that how time goes so quickly... I thought we have just cerebrated a new years day, and already 11 days have gone... 

Anyway, today I wanted to practice to incorporate white on coloured paper.  Morning pose was rather boring to me, so it was perfect to go into the detail. 3 drawing below are 2-15mins and a 20 mints.  

And the afternoon was Mr. Gustavo, my muse and sometimes the good adviser. This drawing was 1 hour pose.

My plan to do in this month is review anatomy and watch all the humane figure instructional videos. I tend to get bored quickly, so just be patient.. X-(

2013's first work...

Morning model was Dan, and afternoon model was Nicole. I felt that I don't have enough stamina to keep my concentration during afternoon... XD

Fall semester is now over...

4 months has gone so quickly. I found my very first life drawing work project, and yes, I have improved a bit.  But still something I really don't like about my works... I was frustrated and asked Fernando what I can do to improve. He told me, there are mainly 2 things I am not strong at; shape and texture. The shapes of drawing is not accurate enough and my rendering is not smoothness enough. I am off from the school for 6 weeks, so during this period, I should do some home work, yeah, serious boot camp is necessary... 

This took about 36 hours. I used General's charcoal pencils on FA5 paper. 

 This one is much less complete, though spent about 30 hours.

This work is slightly smoother texture, used General charcoal pencils on Fabriano Artistico paper.

During this semester, there were some upsetting things happened, especially human relations at school. All I want is work there hard to improve, and if lucky, make some good friends... And I still looking for an better apt near school. Hope next year will be the breakthrough the wall year...

Teddy pot

Another tea pot has done! This one have a teddy bear with a acorn and a leaf beside him. Unfortunately, spout was not big enough, but turned out very cute. I have 4 more mugs to finish. I am thinking how I should decorate them... :)

Ink and colour pencils

I was so disappointed by my poor proportioned drawings in the last drawing session, so I changed the point of view this morning. I used quick gesture flow drawings to nail the better proportion first and used it as bone to build up a better shape.

It seemed working well, and I added anatomical landmarks and tones. "Less is more", "simple is the best"?, mayebe, as I started to add more, then my drawings started to loose shapes again... I broke the tip of pencils a lot this morning... XD

And afternoon, I used ink with bamboo stick for fun. BG was too white, so I added a bit of charcoal as well as to hide my mistakes...

1 hour sketch turned out likeable.
But not 1.5h one. I usually do not like 1.5h works.

I think this style of drawing is good for short poses. Or I simply need more practice... Ha-ha.

Long time no see...

This morning, the model was Gustavo. I used to draw him so many time when I was in college. But now maybe 1-2 times a year. My hand didn't remember his figure at all, so only a few sketches look decent... But he is always my muse, I got some idea for drawing pose using him. He's always give me good inspirations, and the right corner one if the thumbnail of it. :D
And afternoon, Colin took a picture of my red conte drawing telling me looks good. Actually I don't like it at all. It doesn't look like her and not enough realism there. Buy he usually tells me good work to the one I feel not good... I wonder... Anyway I should take a red chalk workshop next year.... DX