MarkHarchar
May 1st, 2005, 06:35 PM
Hi all.
While working on the Illustration Activity thread from Rick Hershey this week, I came to a realization. If I don't have a reference, I can't draw crap. If I'm looking at something (let's focus on people for the sake of this thread), I can draw them in whatever pose they are in (not saying it would be a good drawing). I've done a bunch of self study and I seem to be able to get the concept of full view proporations, head heights and all that and I can draw a figure from the mind ok. But when I try to draw a character in any other position, I get hand/eye/brain lock. So I went back to a book that I have from Vincent Giarrano called Comics Crash Course where he states to start off with a gester sketch, a stick figure as it were. Off the top of my head, my stick figures looked they were drawn by a 3 year old. So I took a step back. I grabbed comics and clothes mags and other stuff where people were positioned different ways and drew a stick sketch of that position. Here are the samples. I figured that I can then block them in and try to get the basic forms in different positions before I move to musculature and such. Is this the right course to take? Not have any art training, is there a better way?Any help would be approeciated.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/hylandr2/Quickforms.gif
While working on the Illustration Activity thread from Rick Hershey this week, I came to a realization. If I don't have a reference, I can't draw crap. If I'm looking at something (let's focus on people for the sake of this thread), I can draw them in whatever pose they are in (not saying it would be a good drawing). I've done a bunch of self study and I seem to be able to get the concept of full view proporations, head heights and all that and I can draw a figure from the mind ok. But when I try to draw a character in any other position, I get hand/eye/brain lock. So I went back to a book that I have from Vincent Giarrano called Comics Crash Course where he states to start off with a gester sketch, a stick figure as it were. Off the top of my head, my stick figures looked they were drawn by a 3 year old. So I took a step back. I grabbed comics and clothes mags and other stuff where people were positioned different ways and drew a stick sketch of that position. Here are the samples. I figured that I can then block them in and try to get the basic forms in different positions before I move to musculature and such. Is this the right course to take? Not have any art training, is there a better way?Any help would be approeciated.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/hylandr2/Quickforms.gif