Here's me trying to work the ol foreshortening.

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more girlie doodles

Well my brain is slowly turning into mush as I continue to look for work. I think I am ready to stop doodling during my days off and ready to start making some finished pieces. Looking at my website it is in need of a huge overall. Nose to grindstone time.

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I have some time off so I am going to step away from doing poses based on photos and move onto doing some sheets of poses based on whatever I feel drawing. Here's a warm up sheet and some sketches. When it comes to liner art, I am finding it really hard to work "straight vs. round" when drawing women, I have a tendency to get a rather square looking girl when I try to work it, so I sort of abandoned the idea and started trying to work "round vs more round."

more girls.

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.