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Settle down class...HOMEWORK TIME!
15 years ago
OK. So I am blessed to have so many think my meager art is good. And also blessed as so many have come to me wanting me to help them with their art. So I am going to do a few mini classes here on my journal. Feel free to participate or just comment all you wish.
Lesson 1...The FRAMEWORK.
All figures (no matter what position) should start as a frame. No matter how good you are you should use this method. This method of drawing has been used sent the dawn of art and is the building block for all well drawn figures. If you use this you will not only make evenly porportioned firgures but you will learn to draw them in perspective. But we will get to that later.
Now I know this is not coming with lots of tutorial but that's the point. Let's feel the drawings first and we will talk about them later.
1. Your frame. A frame is just what it sounds like. A simple skeleton to show where the figure is in space. It also makes sure that the pose is correct and does this all before you spend hours on a piece that in the end will be wrong and you either scrap it or post it and then everyone looks at it and goes..."Hmmm, there is something wrong with that yet I can't quite tell what it is."
You see the one thing about figure drawing is that even if someone is not an artist they know inherently how the figure is supposed to look. Sure you may add some fins or tails or digigrade paws but in the end the anatomy has a "way" it should look else it will be off.
The frame makes it so that it is right before you screw up the main drawing.
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Your homework for this week is to fill a standard 8.5''X11'' page up with no less than 10 studies of REAL people that you see.
I only want to see the framework. NO DETAILS. And do not erase anything. This is a freestyle excersize. Just let the sketch flow. Don't worry about details or extra lines. Just darken the lines you wish to use.
When you are done, scan it or whatever and post a link to it here in my journal. I will go over each one and comment.
To get an idea of the frame work I am talking about please see http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3621976/
You have 1 week.
1 page
10 figures
No details
Do not erase
Real life poses
**Please number each figure. (So if I need to comment on one)
Can't wait to see what you all do.
~Zav
Lesson 1...The FRAMEWORK.
All figures (no matter what position) should start as a frame. No matter how good you are you should use this method. This method of drawing has been used sent the dawn of art and is the building block for all well drawn figures. If you use this you will not only make evenly porportioned firgures but you will learn to draw them in perspective. But we will get to that later.
Now I know this is not coming with lots of tutorial but that's the point. Let's feel the drawings first and we will talk about them later.
1. Your frame. A frame is just what it sounds like. A simple skeleton to show where the figure is in space. It also makes sure that the pose is correct and does this all before you spend hours on a piece that in the end will be wrong and you either scrap it or post it and then everyone looks at it and goes..."Hmmm, there is something wrong with that yet I can't quite tell what it is."
You see the one thing about figure drawing is that even if someone is not an artist they know inherently how the figure is supposed to look. Sure you may add some fins or tails or digigrade paws but in the end the anatomy has a "way" it should look else it will be off.
The frame makes it so that it is right before you screw up the main drawing.
************
Your homework for this week is to fill a standard 8.5''X11'' page up with no less than 10 studies of REAL people that you see.
I only want to see the framework. NO DETAILS. And do not erase anything. This is a freestyle excersize. Just let the sketch flow. Don't worry about details or extra lines. Just darken the lines you wish to use.
When you are done, scan it or whatever and post a link to it here in my journal. I will go over each one and comment.
To get an idea of the frame work I am talking about please see http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3621976/
You have 1 week.
1 page
10 figures
No details
Do not erase
Real life poses
**Please number each figure. (So if I need to comment on one)
Can't wait to see what you all do.
~Zav
what?!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3648909/
(I was going to explain what was happening in each one of the poses, but I think that would partially defeat the point of this exercise.)
I see this journal is a couple of months old, could I still get in on this?