face studies

I really need to do more studies more often. As these images show. I did these old school, flipped them upside down and gridded them. Then after a while I eyeballed them. I really should just be eyeballing them. But I am currently trying to make my art education more relevant to my work now, which I think means revisiting some of the things that I did while I was getting my degree. I am also trying to help my poor brain visualize images in terms of painting rather than drawing. It is a huge difference to those of us who live and die on the page. But I won't bore my none existent readership with the details.

So here we go. I also want to get better at drawing/paining women. This drive arose after I realized that there seems to be 3 kinds of (concept) artists in the world. Each kind is broken down into categories that involve what they doodle on napkins when sitting at a restaurant waiting for food.

1) Artists that draw guys doing guy stuff, ie blowing shit up, shooting guns and otherwise being macho. This categories included, but not is exclusive to, artists that like to draw ninjas, space marines, superheroes, post apocalyptic warriors and/or monsters.

2) Artists that draw pin up girls. Girl' faces, girls' bodies, boobies, bums, legs, hair, with machine guns or without, but girls' nonetheless.

3) Artists that you hate and resent and also admire the sh*t out of. Artists that are good at drawing everything, artists that say stuff like "I just make it look 'right.'" and then proceed to produce unbelievable works of art. "Right" indeed.

I tend to gravitate towards drawing guy stuff, not many space marines, but definitely a lot of superheroes. I like to think that it stems from a deep interests in contemporary mythology and not some weird fascination with men in tights. At any rate, I want to get better at drawing women, and not just pin up girls.

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the eyes have it

I have been practicing drawing women's eyes, I was practicing using a variety of artbooks to copy from. I am happy how they came out, considering, no pun intended, that I eye balled all of them.

Poses

Here are some poses I did while at the Massive Black Seattle Workshop. I definitely think that I could use some work on my anatomy, but I sure love drawing people in funny poses.

Well here is another sketch, so far I am actually doing pretty well with all of this. I did this image of Nightwing as an homage to deviantart. I started posted artwork there way back as a kid, before I became a pro. One of the first images that I drew and posted was of Nightwing and to be perfectly honest... it wasn't that great. It is really cartoony and there is a blatant tangent and poor anatomy. But to date it is still one of the most viewed images on my DA page.

So here is a little nod to DA and all the folks there who have supported me.

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I went camping for the weekend so I haven't been able to post. Here are 2 sketches that I did on a plane trip a while ago and coloured up in P-shop. I am still surprised at how much more I like drawings that I do in the corner of a notebook with a dull pencil.

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