Spartan Camp #72 - 50 gestures + Optional Study of "Architecture"

[Anthis]

Spartan Camp #72 - 50 gestures + Optional Study of "Architecture"
The aim is to produce 50 gestures by Sunday the 31th of January.

The gestures can be of anything, human, animal, cavorting capybaras....and can be in any media, digital or traditional is fine.

In addition to this, participants can choose to do a Optional Study of "Architecture", in any media. Black and White or Colour is fine.

:flex: Come on soldiers! Flex those muscles!!: flex:

PS...critting each other is highly encouraged!! Let's help each other get better!

HALL OF FAME - SPARTAN CAMP #71

royaltea
Anthis

[stimulus]

Hey Anthis, it's great you are keeping this going. Shouldn't this be #72?

[Clodioz]

Does this count?

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[Anthis]

stimulus; Cheers!
Clodioz; Of course, nice ones. Those are done with a pen, right? Pretty good since it leaves no room for correction. My advice is to not skip the feet, else you might end up with feet being your weakness. They can be quite tough too. Plus they're important for balance and perspective. They seem to be from posemaniacs, what timer are they on? Nice job on the building, I think the upper floor and roof area especially are quite strong. It seems to be 'floating' above the valley on the left, though I assume the surroundings were of less concern to you. Nice job on those shadows.

Optional study later

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[royaltea]

here are mine. from posemaniacs, 60 second timer.

thanks for the advice last time anthis, i got bridgman's life drawing book and im working through it. right now i'm on heads (so tough!). my studies don't show up in these gestures though

[Clodioz]

Anthins, Hey tahnks for the advices, i didnt notice about the feet :O. Maybe it was because I did those from posemaniacs. I used the 30 seconds session...
About the building, I thought noone will notice that the left side is not at the same altitude that the right side, very good eye on that.

Here's the reference, an hotel from Valparaiso, Chile.

http://www.servifans.com/valparaiso2.jpg

You can notice there's a lot of mistakes, but yeah its my first attemp drawing buildings :D

Cheers!

[Anthis]

Clodioz ; Ah, that clears things up. I can see now where I got confused. Yea I did notice the altitude, but I couldn't see what the building was 'standing on'. I'm guessing it's the rock.
royaltea ; Nice! you won't regret it if you intend to learn anatomy. Always try to 'understand' the pose that you're drawing rather than just to copy. (not saying you did though). Good commitment, keep it up! And yea, I find heads to be real tough too.

Next one's up.

[royaltea]

royaltea ; Nice! you won't regret it if you intend to learn anatomy. Always try to 'understand' the pose that you're drawing rather than just to copy. (not saying you did though). Good commitment, keep it up! And yea, I find heads to be real tough too.


Thanks

Can you explain what you mean by understanding the pose? I think I have a really slight idea of what you mean but its only slight and it would be interesting to try drawing these with a different perspective in mind.

[Anthis]

Well often when I'm not paying too much attention, I notice that I'm simply copying my reference. Which, I'm sure, doesn't teach me much. From what I've read (I don't attend any art school), you have to sort of analyze your reference. See how the body is positioned, which leg takes most of the weight, how limbs are stretched or bent, foreshortening, moving or steady. See how the anatomy "works", that kind of thing. Then you can reproduce it. I think Bridgman covers quite a lot of it, although I havn't gone trough it completely. Loomis too.