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As is proper, learning Vilppu's style is straight-up difficult. I just wish I could master it faster. Hell, I would loved to have learned all of this so I could make a decent reference sheet of my fursona in time for Furnal Equinox 2014, but I guess that ship has sailed.
For the most part (for this session), I tried drawing a mix of casual and dynamic poses. As I kept drawing, I kept noticing loads of mistakes in each pose. For example, the figure in the top left most part of the collage, the way its stretching its arms behind its back looks off considering how long the arms are; also I think the arcing of the backside looks a bit unnatural. I tried foreshortening in another figure; yes, I admit that it blows.
As I worked on these poses, I began to remind myself of a couple of "strategies" that Vilppu addressed in his first and second chapters. I had to remember to "think of the body as an accordion" and that "as one side compresses, the other side stretches." There was also that exercise where I tried to get circles (primarily any that were overlapping) to "interact" with each other. Long story short, while I didn't exactly get the circles to overlap each other (which is what I should've done to begin with now that I think about it), the circular/spherical guidelines proved helpful to an extent. Then it was a case of my best judgment to determine where the circles for the shoulders, calves, etc. would connect with other spheres or "interact" with them.
Again, I wish I could've done way better with almost all of these poses here, but I would imagine that I'm starting to understand the essential forms of them. Plus if something didn't look right, I'd just try and correct those errors by drawing the same pose again with the previous faults in mind. I mean, they're just sketches, so it doesn't bother me too much to find these errors (but I know there must be plenty more mistakes I've made that I'm not even aware of yet).
These illustrations represent my progress (poorly) combining my knowledge of Chapter One: Gestures and Chapter Two: Spherical Forms from Vilppu's Drawing Manual.
Trying out a totally new style of body structure for my furry artwork starting from the beginning and working my way up. But rather than label these pics as my regular Sketchbook Practice features, I decided to upload them as an entirely new series altogether: Vilppu Practice. I feel like I'm going to back hacking away at his style quite a bit, so my progress with said style shall be in its own category. As always, I'm willing to improve, so please don't feel bad critiquing me; it's the only way I'll learn. Thank you very much!
PROGRESS
<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
As is proper, learning Vilppu's style is straight-up difficult. I just wish I could master it faster. Hell, I would loved to have learned all of this so I could make a decent reference sheet of my fursona in time for Furnal Equinox 2014, but I guess that ship has sailed.
For the most part (for this session), I tried drawing a mix of casual and dynamic poses. As I kept drawing, I kept noticing loads of mistakes in each pose. For example, the figure in the top left most part of the collage, the way its stretching its arms behind its back looks off considering how long the arms are; also I think the arcing of the backside looks a bit unnatural. I tried foreshortening in another figure; yes, I admit that it blows.
As I worked on these poses, I began to remind myself of a couple of "strategies" that Vilppu addressed in his first and second chapters. I had to remember to "think of the body as an accordion" and that "as one side compresses, the other side stretches." There was also that exercise where I tried to get circles (primarily any that were overlapping) to "interact" with each other. Long story short, while I didn't exactly get the circles to overlap each other (which is what I should've done to begin with now that I think about it), the circular/spherical guidelines proved helpful to an extent. Then it was a case of my best judgment to determine where the circles for the shoulders, calves, etc. would connect with other spheres or "interact" with them.
Again, I wish I could've done way better with almost all of these poses here, but I would imagine that I'm starting to understand the essential forms of them. Plus if something didn't look right, I'd just try and correct those errors by drawing the same pose again with the previous faults in mind. I mean, they're just sketches, so it doesn't bother me too much to find these errors (but I know there must be plenty more mistakes I've made that I'm not even aware of yet).
These illustrations represent my progress (poorly) combining my knowledge of Chapter One: Gestures and Chapter Two: Spherical Forms from Vilppu's Drawing Manual.
Trying out a totally new style of body structure for my furry artwork starting from the beginning and working my way up. But rather than label these pics as my regular Sketchbook Practice features, I decided to upload them as an entirely new series altogether: Vilppu Practice. I feel like I'm going to back hacking away at his style quite a bit, so my progress with said style shall be in its own category. As always, I'm willing to improve, so please don't feel bad critiquing me; it's the only way I'll learn. Thank you very much!
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Doodle
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