More gestures

I am going on vacation Friday, so I will not be posting for a week, and I think that when I get back I will switch to posting these gestures in a "best of" format and I might only put them up once a week.

Enjoy,
C.

Gestures.

I didn't do any gestures yesterday because I was at Whistler watching the Mens 10k biathlon. Here's the ones I did this morning.

More pretty ladies

more gestures, this time I numbered the poses and put the times down. I am hoping that I will be able to see some type of progression as I warm up. I am hoping that I will be able to capture more information faster and more accurately as time goes on.

One draw back to working digitally, that is that the wacom pen doesn't really seem to work when you hold with the point up (like you hold a soft pencil while doing life drawing, like holding a remote control or a flashlight.) Holding a pencil, or whatever, allows you to put down a wider variety of marks and therefore you are able to capture more information faster.

These have all been done using sketchbook pro, I love the brushes to death and my shaky hands don't seem to show through like they do when I use photoshop. There may come a time when I will have to switch in order to experiment with brushes and pen tilt to see if I can get something that mimics charcoal or conte.

Gestures

Heyo,

I always lament the fact that I don't get to do enough life drawing, especially gestures, and I decided to do something about it. Because I can't always fit a class into my schedule I have started using a stopwatch and good fashion/girlie pictures from magazines like Maxim and FHM. This was I can do a bunch of quick sketches in the morning as a warm up. This allows me to get in the practice I wanted, but because I can do it at home it also makes it easier work digitally too (I doubt I will ever be able to bring my cintiq into a life drawing class.)

Anywho, it is pretty cool so far, it makes a lot of the things about life drawing that always annoyed me easier. Like you can fit as many drawings as possible on the page, and recompose the page so that each sketch plays off each other. Because you aren't in a class you can redo a pose if the first run through didn't turn out, or decide mid-drawing that you want this to me a 3 minute pose instead of 30 seconds. Lastly, I always felt guilty about going through so much paper in a life drawing class, this way I don't have to bother.

I know the point of gesture drawings is to learn to capture poses with a sense of spontaneity and having all the amenities that working digitally affords me could take away from that, but I find not having to worry about these things let me relax more and work more loosely, so I figure the pros outweigh the cons at least for the time being.

these poses are between 30 seconds and a minute.

Here are some poses that I doodled these week. I am trying to not feel like I have to noodle everything about my work before I post it. So here's some stuff that was inspired by Frank Frazetta, in my books he paints/draws sexier women than anyone around.
Peace,
C.