#figure drawing class

[hertist-art]

[Spring Semester] Figure Drawing (pt.1)

[delusioninabox]

Daily #2,353! YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DRAW THEM SOMEDAY!!!  

[thesketchbookofkells]

 Reference

I switched to gymnastics because was getting very bored of sifting through ballet videos to try to find clean shots of interesting moves. The 37 frames took me a little under 3 hours total including resizing, which was a huge improvement on my time from earlier in my project. The beam forced me to ground my figure and the gymnastics allowed for more challenging distortions.

[thesketchbookofkells]

 Reference

Last one!

This one perhaps isn’t my cleanest one but I really focused on the perspective and the way the body flips and rotates in air. While all of my other reference videos were filmed more or less straight on, this footage was taken from an angle which made it much more challenge.  I probably watched this video a million times to try to get the exact movement and timing.

[thesketchbookofkells]

Reference

First week! I ended up cleaning this one up a lot if you can see from the undersketch. It took me a couple hours to get through 14 frames, which is... not ideal, especially at this level of detail. 

[thesketchbookofkells]

Figure Drawing Final Project Notes:

Hey yall! It’s the end of the semester and that means it’s time to post my final projects for art class, because somehow I decided tumblr is a good academic medium. I was in a figure drawing class this semester, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in art. Our final portfolio includes six creative drawings- basically, we could hand in anything that involves a figure. I decided to do six short animations- one per week- using dancing and gymnastics for reference and challenge myself to capture the sheer power and distortion the human body is capable of.

It was really strange seeing how my ability changed over the course of six weeks. I knew I wanted a fast and loose style- I absolutely adore watching pencil tests from old animated movies and I wanted to emulate that look. However my first couple attempts were... rough. It took me way too long to do too few frames. I used too much pressure and made everything come out blocky and stiff. I had to do a lot of fixing to keep a consistent size. It took me way too long to discover the benefits of guiding lines. 

But over time I started being able to do more complex movements, even throwing in some more challenging perspectives. I started pushing 30 frames while also improving my speed. It really shows how much artistic ability comes from practice not innate skill. 

So yeah my next couple posts are gonna be what I’ve been working on!

[mickolash]

Plains Study

[mickolash]

Figure studies