Alex Zoinks - Art School

[AlexZoinks]

1/13/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments

Notes:

1. Today stunk. For a number of reasons. Hard to get myself to do this today. But here we are.
2. I watched a video from Brunet on how to best draw from references. The beginner tips included choosing simple poses without much perspective to get a better sense of anatomy. So I reworked my pose selection. He also recommended using guidelines to get a sense of where parts are easier. You can see the guidelines I used in the drawings. He also reminded not to expect perfection and that most drawings are going to suck. Which was encouraging that it's normal.
3. I'm reducing the amount of drawings to try to better fit the time into my schedule. Today was just one less row of 30s gestures, but I'll probably drop down to 4 cylinder skeletons soon, maybe 3.

[AlexZoinks]

1/14/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments

Notes:

1. Another day.

[snakker]

Looking good, those cylinder men are good and proportions are good

Always try looking for the relationship of the tilt of the hips (usually tilt up on the leg that is straighter or gives more weight bearing) and how the tilt of the hips relate to the tilt of the thorax (usually stretches one side and makes a notch at the other side). These are super useful and I learned about it from feedback here on the forums - but I still male mistakes about them 😅

Cheers

[AlexZoinks]

The stretch and pinch is a good way to tell. One of the >'s gets wider, while the other < gets closer together.

[AlexZoinks]

1/15/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments + crystal thing

Notes:

1. 11 days in a row!
2. My eyes felt broken when I started the first skeleton study today. Like I couldn't think about how things related. Took me a while, but I think I got into the swing by the end.
3. A neat crystal study. I wanted to draw something I wanted to draw. I was feeling burnt out on static pose outlines. I've thought clusters of crystals looked intriguing and beautiful ever since StarCraft: Brood War - I can hear the SCVs' cutting torches whining in my head.

[snakker]

Very cool, good work on those crystals

[Gordon003]

Nice figure deconstruction and the crystal study looks nice!

[AlexZoinks]

1/16/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments + illustration study

Notes:

1. The Wonder Woman cover is by Will Murai - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/03annK. It's a stunning piece - Art Nouveau meets strength training. I like that he drew her as powerful and delicate. Her delts and hamstrings look amazing.
2. The Wonder Woman study felt very different from the photo studies - I drew from an artist's lines instead of the light bouncing off a model. And the illustration was cropped at the feet.
3. Faces are still hard.

[snakker]

These figure studies are really really good

[AlexZoinks]

1/17/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments + illustration study

Notes:

1. I tried out Brunet's free brush pack. I used his line art brush for today's sketches, with a few of the details on Supes' face finished with the 1px straight line brush.
2. Alex Ross painted this Supes for "Superman from JLA: Liberty and Justice." He's one of the few artists of whom I own art books. I love the majesty and reverence with which he portrays the heroes and their bodies.

[AlexZoinks]

1/18/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments + illustration study

Notes:
1. Tired. No fun study tonight. But I made it to two weeks daily. (Yesterday)
2. I put the references on the right to see if it made a difference - I don't think it did.

[snakker]

Great figure study

[AlexZoinks]

1/19/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments

Notes:
1. It's weird to feel like "looking" is cheating. Like zooming in or noticing details and replicating them is cheating.
2. No post tomorrow - I'll be out of town for a class. Saturday seems unlikely too, but you never know.
3. I gotta get started on the perspective assignments. Hopefully over the weekend.

[Pattu_w]

man, i've been away for two weeks and there is so much here already, your progress is visible, great job on these studies

[AlexZoinks]

1/21/2023 - Nude Figure Drawing Assignments + Illustration Study

Notes:

1. Yesterday I traveled for a class, I knew I wouldn't be drawing. I was pessimistic about getting back to it today, but here we are! Thank God!
2. I think drawing at low-res (1000px wide for a figure sketch) makes it hard to get the brushes dark and hard to get details in the faces. Not that I've learned faces yet anyways.
3. J. H. Williams III's Batwoman is great. I like his page/panel composition and characters. Unfortunately, they're so often shrouded in capes/atmosphere that it's hard to find a full figure drawing to study. That's probably the most dynamic pose I've attempted so far. It doesn't seem like it sucks.

[AlexZoinks]

Thanks for the encouragement, Pattu! Much appreciated.

[snakker]

You're doing great
Nice selection on that dynamic pose

cheers

[AlexZoinks]

1/22/2023 - Perspective I Assignments + Nude Figure Drawing Assignments + Illustration Study

Notes:

1. Big day today! I did the 1- and 2-point perspective practices and started the 1-point perspective room assignment. That's not done, but I got pretty far.
2. I added some new poses into the mix. The human body is amazing.
3. New poses make gesture drawings harder. I didn't realize that I'd gotten used to the poses I had been using. I had to do a lot more seeing in the 30- and 60-second sessions for new poses.
4. Peter Steele. 'Nuff said.

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Perspective Assignments

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Nude Figure Drawing Assignments

[AlexZoinks]

1/23/2023 - Perspective I Assignment

Notes:

1. My living room!
2. That was hard. Made my brain tired. It's hard to force myself to see 3D as 2D.
3. I cut out a lot of chairs. I like ornate things. I don't know how to draw them yet.
4. No figure drawing tonight. I'm worn out from that.

[snakker]

Wow, good job on that perspective study!