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Digital Death is just one of the prints from Alex Solis in his current solo show, Unpopular Culture. So many great pieces from your collection. Just $25 each. See it all here: nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/Unpopular-Culture

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When Life Gives You Lemons... by Alex Solis is just one of the many great prints currently in Unpopular Culture, his solo show at G1988. Get this for just $25, and see the entire exhibit here: nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/Unpopular-Culture

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Halloween in Duckburg

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The Arcade Dayz prints from Luke Flowers just keep getting better and better. Pick up this Mouse Trap print for just $19.88 while you can. Online here: https://nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/blackfriday2018/products/copy-of-luke-flowers-trap-print?variant=19234395553851

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A friend recently asked me a question related to speeding up. Coincidentally, I just reformed my entire process just for that reason. Here are the results as pertaining to figure drawing.

When most people first learn figure drawing, they are told to study: Shape, Anatomy, Form, Gesture, Proportion and Perspective. These are all tools you need in order to be successful. When we learn them, we usually do so separately, but if you want to be fast you have to simplify that information and see the body as a whole.

When we see a car, we see the total car with an almost subconscious understanding of the parts necessary to make it work. We know the doors open and the wheels turn and the pistons pump. If you want to have strong figures even on a deadline, it helps to draw and think of the figure in that same way.

Above is a cheat sheet of the main(but certainly not all) ideas I think of in simplifying the figure.

-Skull, Jaw and Eye Socket

-Spine, Pelvis and Joints

-Large muscle groups, how they interact with each other as well as the primary bones under them(when appliable)

-Basic forms for hands feet with an understanding of the bones

There’s a lot to drawing the figure, but young artists often pour all of that information into every drawing only to see their work fall apart on a deadline(or blow the deadline.) Hopefully this helps show one possibility of speeding up after learning the little things, and making drawing easy and reasonably accurate.