Gioffredi’s imaginative figures

[Michael Gioffredi]

This is my first post, although I’ve been lurking around for about a month. I feel like thief for not contributing sooner. Everything I post here will be from my imagination without any reference. My goal this summer is to really build up my figure drawing arsenal. I’m gonna be posting new studies every day so hopefully this’ll be showing some improvement as the summer goes along.

Right now I’m working on Loomis’ books. Anyone know where I can get a pdf of Creative Illustration? I’ve got the other four in three ring binders. I drew a bunch of his funny heads, closed the book, and then drew some of my own. The figures are just some simple cylinders and spheres. I’ll be adding more and more anatomy as I learn it. Nothin too complex as of yet, but it’s a start. The halftone paper style was inspired by Mentler’s (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26748) awesome anatomy studies.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch1.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch2.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch3.jpg

[eazym]

Nice heads. Looking forward to see some progress in the next couple of months. Keep drawin, keep postin.

[Michael Gioffredi]

Thanks Eazym. I worked on Loomis’ stuff some more today. Here’s tonight’s imaginatives.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch4.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch5.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch6.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch7.jpg

[Cup of Joe]

Hey, welcome to CA! Great stuff here! Loving those heads. For the book, go to WIKI at the top of the page, then e-books, and the link should be there. If you can't find it, I'll dig it up for ya. Great stuff, keep it coming!

[Motility]

Soooo much Character!!
Way Kool!
Try here. http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis/

[this1]

awesome lookin stuff, very well done and creative.

[stine]

hah, great fun to look at your head studies. nice fluent lines and very expressive characters. i'll enjoy watching your next steps. :) cheers,

stine

[Michael Gioffredi]

Thanks everyone, really encouraging. Now I’ve got all of Loomis’ books. So much to learn, so little time. I worked on head anatomy today. All no ref. I’ll try to out due myself each day…

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch8.jpg
http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch9.jpg
http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch10.jpg

[Chance.]

Great start. Keep studying that anatomy and you'll be jammin in no time.

[Michael Gioffredi]

Thanks Q-Caddlewick, I will. I started Bridgman today. Lots of fun.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch11.jpg

[Michael Gioffredi]

Boring stuff today. Just practicing the “ball and plane” way of constructing heads.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch12.jpg

[Michael Gioffredi]

Here’s today’s. I’m practicing Loomis’ Drawing the Head and Hands. Trying to understand the features of the face. Still crap but getting better.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch13.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch14.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch15.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch16.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch17.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch18.jpg

[stine]

hey there! last three pages look awesome. great to see you are able to transport everything you've learned to quickly into your own designs. i like the (compared to your first posts) more fluent and sketchy approach, too. looking forward to your next pages! :) cheers,

stine

[Michael Gioffredi]

Thanks Stine. I agree, the more I practice, the more confident and loose my stuff gets. I worked on tone in Loomis’ Heads and hands today. I’m getting a better three-dimensional feel for drawing and “sculpting” with the lines. Instead of just posting imaginative stuff like I said at the start, I’ll be posting studies as well so I can show what I’ve been learning and then how I try to apply it. Getting a little better each day. The first three are of myself in the mirror.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch19.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch20.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch21.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch22.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch23.jpg

[Michael Gioffredi]

Here are some of todays. I worked on girl’s heads in Loomis Heads and Hands book.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch27.jpg

They started to steer toward a same, boring manikinish style since I wasn’t using an actual living personality to base them off of. I turned on the T.V. and started some loose drawings of a nice looking cook on the Food Network. It was a bit challenging at first, but I started to get the hang of it…

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch28.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch29.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch30.jpg

Rushed to the bathroom to draw myself during a commercial…

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch31.jpg

Then back to the T.V.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch32.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch33.jpg

Then back to Loomis. A few are copies, most are invented.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch34.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch35.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch36.jpg

Then on to old women. The first three are copied, the rest invented.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch37.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch38.jpg

Finally, no reference stuff testing what I’ve learned.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch24.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch25.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch26.jpg

[Michael Gioffredi]

Two of today’s. No ref.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch39.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch40.jpg

[Justin Caise]

Wow!
Nice stuff.
keep it comin'.
I see one there which must be the older brother of calvin. (Of Calvin and Hobbs)

[Michael Gioffredi]

Thanks Justin. Not much today, my head hurts too much. The first is a study of the eyes and wrinkles. I find the eyes are easiest to draw without reference if they're thought of as two planes intersecting a sphere at a right angle. Also it seems that most of the wrinkles of the face "originate" from the center of the eye, even the ones on the forehead.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch41.jpg

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch42.jpg

[Michael Gioffredi]

Hands today.

http://www.michaelgioffredi.com/images/CASketches/sketch43.jpg

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