Quick basketball sketches

[Alex Gering]

of his holy "Airness"
http://www.alexgering.com/bball1x.jpg

http://www.alexgering.com/bball2x.jpg

http://www.alexgering.com/bball3x.jpg

[fredflickstone]

nice flow...how did you do this? Frame grabs, or pause and andvance on film...dvd whatever...this is a nice practice in motion, something I rarely get to do unless I am designing acretures walk habits...this is really good stuff. Try one with something really complex, like a street skater doing a really hard trick with a board flipping, etc...you can invent so much more when you do these...you are recording the motions, you are catagorizing them and drawing them...its all you...then you can remember back, or refer to your old drawings to get motions more accurate...etc.

great work.


the middle one...do you plan to go back and complete this one, or are you going to leave it in its state?


Thanks for sharing.

ROn

[xflox]

looks great, love the fluid lines.
sometimes i draw from these frame-by-frame shots in skateboard or snowboard magazines, that´s also a good practice, i think
:)

[Rohan]

cool stuff Alex, your drawings suggest a really economical way of representing the gesture of figures in motion studies. nice work. I'd also like to know how you get all the frames on one page like that. I know when I used to use deluxepaint animation, they had animbrushes which allowed you to paint the frames of a saved animation onto a single image. There is now a prog out there called pro motion I think which does much of what deluxepaint did, including animbrushes but I don't know if you can import quicktime(my camera's clip format) or other video formats into it. something to investigate.

Hey fred, you know I was just in perth today with my digicam and saw these skateboarders pulling off kickflips and was thinking of grabbing a bit of video with my camera and doing studies of their tricks in 2d or in lightwave.

admittledy at the time I didnt have the guts to ask them if I could take some footage(usually I just stealth it). but in hindsight after ur post reminded me, I reckon if I just told them what it's for they'd prob be keen to have me shoot them. thanks for provoking these thoughts.

Rohan

[Alex Gering]

Thanks Ron ! I stopped the video, gave myself ten seconds for each shot. Ít's really great practise and much fun to explore what can be done with a line. I'll definately do more of these, more complex more difficult stuff.
The middle one is finished, I couldn't go back to it anyway. It's really hard to learn when to stop, I just try to listen to what my hand says. There is a point where my hands just stops drawing and the brain begins to work, that's the best time to call a drawing finished. :)

thanks Xflox and Rohan ! :)

[gekitsu]

really great line quality, alex - simple & expressive, no mark too much.
i would have loved to look over your shoulder when you were doing these.

more, please :)