22nd February 2011

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17th February 2011

Drawing foreshortened horses: bad idea :D

16th February 2011

15th February 2011

14th February 2011

Wuff seyz: Happy Valentines to all you mushy couples :D And a happy quirkyalone day for us content singles :D

13th February 2011

12th February 2011

11th February 2011

10th February 2011

Reading up on perspective from http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech10.html - so I'm taking a break from drawing the skeletons to sketching my schleich critters, but this time with the aid of the skeleton practice I've done so far.

I've sadly forgotten to do a gesture prior to the start of the sketch (bad me). Will have to keep that in mind.

9th February 2011

8th February 2011

7th February 2011

Blargh, I really need to spend time on heads, hands and feet. However, focus right now is still on animal anatomy.

6th February 2011

5th February

4th February 2011

3rd February 2011

Very quick, lose sketch from a photo, attempting to simplify the skeleton and work in some of that perspective mojo yeah!

2nd February 2011

Slowly beginning to see how perspective affects the drawing. Usually I practice on small 3-4 inch miniatures, but todays is from a photograph from the National History Museum (it's a direwolf skeleton btw). As I started, I was totally confused by the perspective when I drawed in the box for proportions. Then it dawned on me, how important it truly is. It's quite difficult for me to draw with a 3 point perspective. Understanding it is one thing, drawing in it is another!

1st February 2011

31st January 2011

Thoughts on drawing stuff

I'd really wanted to draw for a long while, and one of the reasons, like photography, was to improve my "aesthetic" side of me. In recent times, I've stopped thinking this way - it's actually now just more for fun!

This is especially true now that I've been looking more at anatomy. Previously, it was a really, really drab and dry topic. I mean, muscles? Pah! But after realizing how the muscles actually work, it's really amazing, how animals are made up of muscles that operate in push-pull fashions, tendons and how they work. Obliques, how they tilt the body. It's bloody amazing.

30th January 2011