Figure Drawing Update

Here a couple figure drawings I did recently that I feel show my progress. In particular I am pretty happy with the way the torso studies turned out. I definitely feel much improved! But I'm greedy so I want to get even better faster XD!! Anyways, here's to more drawing and improvement :)

Environment Sketching - April/May

These are some sketches I've been doing since class ended. I've been continuing to work on the things learned in class and a lot of searching for values and shapes. I've also been reverting back to line a bit as well. In general, just having fun! For my next set I will focus on creating compositions (no more floating objects/buildings) and creating more finished sketches (either on location or take it home to refine).

I'm reading Walt Stanchfield's Drawn to Life about gesture drawing and he mentioned some interesting things about "landscape gestures". It was in the chapter about angles and tension, and how we tended to draw things towards the horizontal or vertical, but if we angled things diagonally instead there would be more of a sense of movement and tension can be created as well. I tried it out with my figure drawings and I think they've improved! I haven't tried it out with my environment sketches yet but I will soon. The examples he had in the book were really simple but definitely captured the scene, and he mentioned how he started "drawing" instead of "copying" after he started thinking about angles he wanted in the scene. (He also mentioned how he drew the same scenes several times over.) Anyways, I thought this was interesting info to share with everyone!