The time for the Gesture drawings rose for this week again and now I have two minutes per pose. This gives me enough time to finish every body part in the gesture steps and mostly, also have 30s to one minute left, in which I try to draw the ovals for the torso and pelvis over the gesture and try to connect them. Since I didn´t have much experience with this step jet and not too much time left, I often struggle with the size of the ovals and especially with the connections. This I think will get better with time and practice, when I’m more accustomate with the process and need less time to think how I best place the forms and lines for the connections.
The picture below is todays try.
New this week is the 7th assignment of “Nude Figure Drawing”, where we have to draw the full figure from reference with the help of measurement techniques, Marc shows us in the video. Marc mentioned in the video, that this exercise is hard and for me this comes very true. Even if I measure everything and then double check it, I greatly struggle to keep the correct proportions and forms. Regardless, I am going to do this assignment as carful as possible and decided that, although it doesn’t show on the schedule again after this week, at least for term 1, I will do it after this week one a regular basis. Bellow is also my attempt from today. Here I spotted a mistake I made in all my first try’s. In short, for lengths which were shorter than one head or the scale I used, for whatever reason, took the rest of the length to the full head and not the actual length. For example, when I measured the length, I needed was 1,75 heads, I took the remaining 0,25 heads instead of the 0,75 heads.
Also new this week was assignment 5 for “Nude Figure Drawing”, which I also worked on but doesn´t have enough for posting yet. I am going to show some of my attempts for this assignment on Sunday.
For perspective this week, assignment 2 remained as daily exercise, but with the twist, that instead of isolated boxes we should draw stack of boxes or boxes arranged in patterns. Here is today’s attempt. This variation of the exercise is for sure more challenging than its basic form, but I think it is still manageable.
Lastly according to the schedule, this week the studies of 5 characters from movies/games/… we like should be done again. For this I won´t post anything, because I still try to figure out, how to best do this studies and therefore there isn´t anything I have to share except a bunch of bad lines which roughly resemble the character I try to study after it was hit by a train (Ok, this part is purposely exaggerated and I take my shortcomings here with a lot of humour).
