Spartan Camp #76 - 50 gestures + Optional Study of "Drapery on a body"

[Anthis]

Spartan Camp #76 - 50 gestures + Optional Study of "Drapery on a body"
The aim is to produce 50 gestures by Sunday the 1th of March.

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 "Drapery on a body", in any media. Black and White or Colour is fine.

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

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

HALL OF FAME - SPARTAN CAMP #75

Maria David
Chate Noire
Anthis
polarRook :star:

[polarRook]

grraaagghhh!! drapery ><.. haha i'll do it but I won't like it! :D

looking forward to finishing this.. might start on it tomorrow, we'll see

[Maria David]

Thanks for the comments, Anthis! I'm not very good at following rules but I'll try!

Here's some I drew yesterday. I think I have learned something but there's still way to go.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2q1c5ub.jpg

[Splinter]

I am new to this forum and I like what I see.

I tried my first 10 poses at 60 seconds and I will have to say that it is a lot harder than I thought.

I will post all fifty real soon.

[Anthis]

polarRook; Hah, yea I'm not a drapery fan either. Important though. See you this, or next week!
Maria David ; I'll always try to help and give some crits, most of it is very common advice. I won't tell you what to do though, and I shouldn't. Just see if there's anything you can use :)
Nice poses! Tough ones, too. Keep trying things out! Sketch a little until you have a satisfying pose.
Splinter; Welcome! There's loads of helpful advice, activities and inspiration around here so you've come to the right forum. Good luck on the poses!


Seems I messed up the scanner settings. Too late to fix now, better next week.

Ref used: (top left scan, bottom right scan)
http://muayrec.com/en/muaythai-techniques/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=9
http://www.characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta76-1.jpghttp://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta76-2.jpg
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta76-3.jpghttp://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta76-4.jpg
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta76-optional1.jpghttp://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta76-optional2.jpg

[Splinter]

Here goes, my first 50 Gestures

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/Johnc_Ism/Gestures/First50Gestures.jpg

I will try and post the cloth study later on tonight.

[Splinter]

Here is my Study of Drapery

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/Johnc_Ism/Gestures/DraperyOnBody.jpg

[polarRook]

Here's my weekly update. Did around 70 gestures since I finished the fifty earlier in the week and wanted to do some more over the weekend. Also did a draped figure, had fun with it.

All gestures were 90 seconds on posemaniacs

Here goes:

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[Maria David]

I'm little late posting these! This felt like cheating... but it was fun!

http://i43.tinypic.com/2wqeahd.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/fm1chk.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2ujt9vr.jpg

[Anthis]

Splinter ; Nice! Many of those are very accurate, even though you used few lines. You also took the experienced option showing all poses. Nice going on the construction lines.
From what I can see, the poses with construction lines and the masses sketched out are your strongest ones. Some of the poses have some really thick, dark lines, as if you were pushing the pencil real hard. Not sure if those are all corrections. I know little of line weight, but perhaps its something to look into. Nice optional study, some nice folds in there. I'm not too sure how the person fits in there.
polarRook; Great! Your poses seem to be getting more accurate. Perhaps because you're really constructing figures. You still seem to be having some trouble with the specific proportions and shaping of muscles and all that, but I think the general pose has really improved. Nice going! Some of the females in the last 3 scans are standing out.
Remember to try other timers or perhaps longer poses if you feel you could use them. I don't think you are, but the last thing you should do is constrain yourself to reach 50 poses. Wonderful study. Is that pastel? Think especially those refined folds in the middle are good, very nice texture.
Maria David; Na, that's not cheating. "poses" or "gestures" is more of a guideline. Perhaps "figures" is better. As long as it will help you improve. There's good emotion in your poses. They're great for practising things, even when stylized. For example the running, and jumping figures (last scan, left) would have very long arms if you would "unbend" them.

Nice going everyone!

[polarRook]

Anthis- Yeah unfortunately they weren't really off the page, they were in a sketchbook and my scanner cut off the top of the page so they were decapitated haha.

The drapery was done from reference and done with white charcoal (that's what it says on the pencil) and graphite. Meant to use the paper as the middle values but that didn't work out all that well but it was good practice.

haha and it's interesting that you liked the bottom folds the most, I lost interest and only drew in the highlights rather than finishing. Happy accident!! :D

[Splinter]

Anthis: Thanks for the comments. All of the gestures were done with 60 Sec. on the timer in Posemaniac. Which I have to say is also the first time I have been to that site. I like. The construction lines were the only thing keeping me up to pace with timer, and as for the dark lines I was just trying to really, really find the lines before the final beep.

Maria David: I really like the sylized approach. You showed a lot of attitude with some especially with the one that is walking a chihuahua.

polarRook: Murderer...you killed a few of them.:wtf: pretty funny. nice work.

[polarRook]

Splinter- Well that's pretty uncalled for, I'm trying man no need to rag.

[Splinter]

Sorry about that polarRook I honestly thought that your gestures were pretty good. I was just referring to the ones that were decapitated by your scanner.

[polarRook]

Splinter- haha oh ok.. no worries man. I got a long way to go, did you do yours in photo shop or just use a huge piece of paper? I'll probably try using a bigger sheet since I'm sick of using 10 pages per camp. Maybe that'll solve my decapitation problem :P

[Splinter]

I actually used photoshop and the layers tool. Then when I was finished I put them all together on one big file. Next time I think that I will try for the traditional method and then scan them in.

But yeah I hear you I too have a long ways to go.