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Ash--/24/5' nil — Currently learning art to get images out of my head to free up space.

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A birthday snippet from LKOF

For Ro...

“Kit.” The voice sounded as if it was coming from very far away. Not Ty’s voice, either. Kit felt as if ice had been injected into his veins, but he forced himself to roll over onto his back.

Ty was there, a silver knife in his hand. He ducked his head and started cutting away the rope around Kit’s waist. Hovering just behind him was Livvy, half-translucent, her hair floating around her as if she were underwater just as Kit had been.

“Kit, you have to get up,” she was saying. Kit had seen a lot of ghosts in his life, but never one as clearly panicked as Livvy was now. “They’re here, they followed you —“

The words echoed inside Kit’s head, all sound and no sense. Follow, follow, follow. He caught at Ty’s wrist just as the rope fell away. 

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Cassie, you're killing us 😭😭😭😭

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In order from top right to left, top to bottom, when I did them. The leg was maybe a week ago, the second image something I saw on Pinterest; totally screwed the proportions on the right side of the face.

The third photo is a reference study based on the previous attempts, lost the ref but I kind of like it? Expect the nose of course, and how weird her forehead looks 😕

The noses....I just wanted to fix the previous one. The letters just mean First, Second, Third (F, S, T) and R for Row. So I could remember which nose it was supposed to be.

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Major things I like and don't like about the first woman in black— I like the cylinders for everything but the right arm, I hate the head and hands. I feel like I'm starting to understand overlapping boxes, etc, and lines but I am so far from where I want to be. I know that's expected but still, it's hard to realize that.

I like the second figure I did. Barely any complaints. And for the third, a study again from Michael Hampton's book, it's got to be the first time I've used a white background since getting Tabitha, but using coloured text on my usual grey just wasn't working for the green (which, when I get to colour theories in like a few months I'm excited to find out why 🧐)

Just a doodle. I remembered watching this guy's yt short on multiple perspectives a few days after and decided to see if I could replicate it. It got out of hand with how many boxes I did, but I like the four on the bottom left (ig, bottom right technically?) and the two above (1 -> 2) where I just redid the one before because I noticed something wrong and wanted to fix it without erasing the individual box.

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Time lapse for memories sake ✌️

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1st Image: Although the finger next to pinkie on the first image isn't as out as the reference that was because I didn't want to shift the lines altogether to make space on the canvas; so that was intentional on my part to keep in mind that a study is to capture, not copy (😕). I didn't want to fix the weird bicep (or the lack of one) since it's better this way to (this is me coping btw) analyze later and see where I could have done better.

2nd: I don't like it but I must resist the urge to delete so I'm posting it either way. (I still like the colour one I did 🥺)

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I didn't mean to post that twice. Seems Tumblr decided to hold off on the first (content issues 🧐). And because I'm new at the site so I just thought it didn't go through and so tried again 🤷.

My bad.

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I just can't seem to let go of the last reference I posted 💀 This took me 8 minutes, almost nine to make, and besides the head, I tried to make sure the lines were as abstract and singular (only one line at a time for, simplification ig) and it still took so long.

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Second attempt, finished a little over an hour after the first. Honestly much better (in my eyes) except the head, and the right wrist/hand.

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Found out what was wrong with my attempts on this reference only after I was finished. The torso isn't nearly as to the side I was thought and is actually facing the same direction as the legs, and the right breast is actually visible (horrible eyesight 🥺) and because of that the right shoulder strap is also visible.

Next time: I'm going to study the reference before proceeding.

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Not sure what I did with the knees, but I liked it and I'm going to try and explore visualizing the planes of the leg when doing more of these "form studies" because the first one I did (the left leg) looks normal (IMHO) but the right one doesn't so obviously I'm going to have to figure out how to do it there.more consistently.

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First image done from, again, from Michael Hampton's book, other two are studies from the attached references. I like how the head turned out from the woman leaning against the wall even if the angle isn't correct and she's not 100% facing down. I think I did better with the legs than the one I did the day before. Anyways, cylinders and rectangles are hard, so are wrapping lines— still trying to wrap my brain around how their direction changes based on the direction the form is going, or is seen from.

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My second day using my pen tablet. First focused session entirely based on Michael Hamptons "Figure Drawing Design & Invention". From the first picture, only the bottom right-three, top right-three, the two connected by the red arrow, and the girl upside down and her head resting on the "floor" on the left are from references (kind of lost them 😞) are NOT from analyzing the books figures on page 8-9— didn't do all them, gotta save something for tomorrow's stretches. I know in the second picture that her left leg is wrong in perspective. Still it's the best thing I've drawn 🤷