Right, construction methods for drawing

[crantz]

I've been pretty unsatisfied with my art lately - just in time to start figure drawing in university! Yay! I've drawn a wiener from life now. Anyway.

As I mentioned last post I think I stumbled onto why while looking at old art where a scanned unfinished comic showed how I used to construct bodies and how it made their posing much more dynamic. I've uploaded the page + the drawing I tried out after using the method of my City of Heroes character Silver Cygnet.







I'm already pretty pleased but as I'm learning in figure drawing I absolutely need to work on doing more dynamic pelvis tilts. They will save me.

I've got to draw a life-size drawing of myself in the style of an artist I've chosen for that class, btw. I've chosen Charles M. Schulz and managed to get an okay from the teacher. Making me the only student who won't need a full length mirror and I'm allowed to use big ol' chisel sharpies.

Uhhh what else.

I'm having lots of Big Emotions lately, but I'm going to bottle those up deep inside where they belong.

I did a list of the movies I've been watching since the start of movie night (and I didn't get all of them) and the list is over 100 movies! Oh my gosh! I think that's more movies I'd seen in my life up until then! It's so neat.

My fellow residents of Hamster Haus are going in tomorrow to interview for a pair of kittens - they managed to choose *identical* cats of the exact type I find most boring but I'm told they're sweet and that's more important than aesthetics. But man, what are the odds. IDENTICAL.

Yuletide is revving up.

I have assignments due for Crossworks and Trick or Treat, but I am confident. OTOH every time I actually post about an assignment it's like I put a dark curse on it, which is weird.

More on the big emotions, I'm picking at stray hairs to the point I've blistered both my index fingers so I think I might be having some sort of ongoing breakdown which I have previously said I'm having with the way I keep checking tags for Yuletide and then before I said the way I couldn't sleep because of Lorwolf and it's fine, I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I have grapes in the fridge.

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[tainry]

::HUGS::
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[crantz]

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[ashenmote]

Well, if you are like that too, use a padded pincers? I suspect I gave myself a bit of nerve damage pressing my fingertips into an edgy metal tool every day.

[crantz]

It's actually an issue of my nail against my skin! It goes much easier when I use actual tweezers. But god forbid I do the sensible thing first.

[ashenmote]

And yeah, the shading and/or the repeated lines makes things more alive and 3D-shaped. I tried that method too and It helped a lot and I learned a lot, but, like, I only gave them the skeleton of blocks and joints and never made the other step where you blend the shapes into the body (the shading/repeated lines stuff exactly). A "I read that whole page in my art book" situation, no doubt. :D

[crantz]

I'm learning a LOT about contour in this class, which is really nice.

In this case the jointing the body and fiddling around with it like a balljointed doll is what's making stuff be more lively - I've been doing boring straight-ons all this time for posing reasons because I like, forgot? That I used to be able to rotate the body around