Spartan Camp #176 - 50 gestures + Optional "Lying Pose Study"

[Anthis]

Spartan Camp #176 - 50 gestures + Optional "Lying Pose Study"

The aim is to produce 50 gestures by Sunday the 10th of April.

- The gestures can be of anything, human, animal, cavorting capybaras.... You can draw full figures, but you can also go for heads, arms, eyes, or anything specific. All media can be used, both digital or traditional. Coloured or black/white. Quick scribbles or long studies. Imagination or referenced. Clothed or nude. Specifics are up to you!

- In addition to this, participants can choose to do an Optional "Lying Pose Study", in any medium.
Additional notes on this weeks’ Optional Study:


Back with a pure figure-drawing-focused optional study! The subject of your study should be laid down (and not speaking lies, as you may have thought!) on a flat surface or floor. This offers an interesting challenge, as you will have to think about how such a pose is affected by weight and perspective.
There's a good chance you can find reference for this topic among figure drawing photos. Lying poses can also be popular in modelling photo galleries.

As always- reference advised, not obligatory. Colour, medium, time frame, clothed/unclothed, any specifics are up to you! Good luck and have fun! And feel free to ask questions!


50 poses is a challenge, but don't hurry or stress yourself reaching it! Focus on drawing, as practising is the main goal of this exercise.

Criticizing each other is highly encouraged!! Share constructive criticism, reference images and resources!! Let's help each other get better!

Come on soldiers! Flex those muscles!!

HALL OF FAME - SPARTAN CAMP #175

shiNIN:star:
J@n!t:star:
ReggieR3MOTE:star:
krisCrash
ggnastist

[shiNIN]

Photos? This topic means a master study to me. But I have too many Bouguereau wips (well, two) so here's a not good Lingner copy. Skin coloring is confusing... IDK how good were my ref photos but they were tiny... and the resolution of my painting as well this time.
Over 1 hour:
http://w3.szivarvanynet.hu/alvaro84/pic/lingner_over1hour.jpg
Over 2 hours:
http://w3.szivarvanynet.hu/alvaro84/pic/lingner_wip.jpg

What can I say? I'm unpleased, I can't even copy well enough. But at least I did a master study again :D

I totally focus on figures these days but I don't have anything in a form I could put here yet. Later :)

[Anthis]

shiNIN- Nice master study! Very suitable. I think those legs are really standing out, very convincing. Also her right forearm and hand have some nice foreshortening going on. I also notice you pretty much nailed those areas early on, in your first image. The chest area is bothering me slightly. Especially the area just below her right breast. Probably because you used just one value there -it feels flat. Makes me want to do a Bouguereau too!

Starting with 45sec posemaniacs. Followed up with some of my own which I'll finish tomorrow.

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/sparta176-1.jpg

[shiNIN]

Anthis: You are right, that place is flat... I played with it a little more. I redrew the sky and touched the feet and hands as well though the changes aren't so apparent. I never drew breasts for this long :( They are hard.
http://w3.szivarvanynet.hu/alvaro84/pic/lingner3.jpg

I can't resist... There will come more of course but now some silly little stuff, Tiggers and some weasles, a stoat and IDK what exactly the bottom right one is.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh287/shiNIN666/gfx/sc176a.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh287/shiNIN666/gfx/sc176b_animals.jpg

[Anthis]

shiNIN - Think it's looking better already. Can't find this specific Bouguereau though, got the title? The flour sack gestures got me laughing, they're very expressive.

1st scan is people lying around on the floor, in pen. Was a painful experience. 2nd is some random clothed figures, which were more fun.

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/176-1.jpghttp://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb12/Anthis_/spartan%20trainings/176-2.jpg

[surus]

they're lying, when they're swimming, right? :)

[shiNIN]

Anthis: No, my reference is Otto Lingner:Liegender Frauenakt, I actually said it's Lingner but I mentioned Bouguereau because I have two unfinished Bouguereau wips and I always did only Bouguereau master studies before, I think.

Maybe I already said it but I actually focus on figures recently, neglecting even faces. It's a huge step but human bodies still confuse me terribly. I try to copy them and I fail. I try to focus on the whole thing but there are those tasty curves everywhere I can't draw properly and I end up having some messy stuff again. Pencil has its disadvantages if someone uses so much force I tend to. But I won't give up, of course :D
Some stuff from this week, the rest is even messier but hopefully I learned something from it, it's the point :)
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh287/shiNIN666/gfx/sc176c_trad.jpg

I was fooling around... well, trying to give helpful crits, I even drew a messy overpaint where I kinda messed up the female sacrum but in general my drawing was better than the OP's one, I love beginners's topics and that one even listens to us, how cute...
when I run into a link Nezumi Works, one of my fav critics in CC posted.
http://www.shomler.com/dance/
I used it to draw these:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh287/shiNIN666/gfx/sc176d_dance.jpg

[manlybrian]

This has been a lazy month for me. :grandpa:

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1208855&stc=1&d=1302508661
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1208857&stc=1&d=1302508688
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1208858&stc=1&d=1302508730

[Anthis]

surus; Technically - I think so! I like them a lot, it's as if we're looking at frames from an animation. When you follow the lines in your drawings you can really notice the muscles and bones. On the downside, you sometimes lose sense of overall proportions. Are you focusing on lineart a lot? Nice caption!

shiNIN; Ah, that makes sense. Nice anatomy studies now. Just know that you wont need to know every single muscle there is. There's a few big, important ones that have a major influence on how the body works and looks on the outside. Keeping those in the back of your head helps a lot. Implement them in your own figures to get used to them. Ballet dancers are tough.. sometimes stills look unnatural, making it even harder to draw a convincing figure.

manlybrian; Shame! Like your optional though. It's funny, from my drawing trips to the zoo I really recognize the typical lama pose. It seems they always lie the same way. I like the bottom right one too (not just for the breast). Good sketch.

[shiNIN]

I don't want to learn every muscle but I love anatomy so even if they aren't shown each, I had to learn about them :D Lovely, lovely muscles and bones, too bad they can take so much time.
I try to choose photos where the figure looks good and believable to me :)

Btw, my Lingner after some more time, I "finished" it today (maybe it suffers from resize, 100->200%->75%), erm, don't look at the head too much, it's worse than before.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1209150&d=1302548299

And some people was thinking about taking img tags away from us... *shudder* Well now it is attachmant manager and img at the same time, because I put it into my sb first.

[ReggieR3MOTE]

Awe man i guess i'm not getting a gold star for this week since these are posted after this week's assignment. Repro's from a book about caricature's, i'm probably gonna do the same thing for next week so i'm talk about the book a little more next week. Mostly done in markers in spirit of the art of caricatures.
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2971/gesture.jpg
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/5241/gesture2.jpg
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9981/gesture1.jpg
-reggie

[manlybrian]

Is that what the gold star is for? I thought it was for doing the week's optional study.

[ReggieR3MOTE]

Well thanks cause now i know.

[J@n!t]

I think the star is for the optional study.

Hey ReggieR3MOTE, I think we're working on the same caricature book!

[Anthis]

Yea guess that's something that should be cleared up, haha.

The hall of fame with those stars has been there way before I picked up this activity (there have been several people before me). The star means you completed the optional study.

I'm rewriting the text and working on a nice banner. I'll make sure I clean up the rules a bit too!

[ReggieR3MOTE]

j@n!t: Face Off by Impact Press?

[J@n!t]

Yep! The same.

[mrsamct]

Well thanks cause now i know.