* contains nudeness *

[swampbug]

http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfolios/tstanto/tradart/bodys.jpg

This is a Independent drawing assignment I assigned myself for school last semester. I had the best teacher ever *wink* The aim was to
draw a group of nudes using no refrence. The only thing I refrenced was the large
figure at the top from a photo I took of myself. This image was a major testing ground
for confidence in drawing people out of my head. I added a photoshop overlay to make
it look a little more interesting. Some of it remains unfinished, but I am leaving it that way.
I need to look forward, its a method of mine for getting better and not becoming frustrated. After all it was more about the general silouette of the figure, and less actuall muslces and face detail. I'm building up to that. On other projects.

later

[sjoerd]

Wow Simply amazing, itreging the way, you kinda made the bodys stick together on the right side of the pic,

like with the man ho looks like a T and the woman next to it,

simply amazing "restecp" for such a nice drawing, you have my confidence in drawing live people!

[platypusStar]

This is great. I agree with sjoerd, the way you made many of the figures fit together is very cool. You must have a lot os skill to be able to do a figure drawing without reference. I have a hard time even when there IS a reference.

Keep up the good work!

[swampbug]

thanks you two. I'm glad you noticed how some people fit together. I really did that on purpose in the beginning but as I went on with the drawing I found less and less places to sneak people into negative spaces. This drawing wasnt planned out at all, It was sorta winged. I did lots of erasing though.

-tor

[Artin]

Nice to see you finally finished it. I already thought that you've stopped working on it.
You sure know your anatomy.

[wes9000]

hey tommy, hows it going?

the drawing looks good, the outlines around the figures sort of flatten it for me, it would be nice if there were more dark values too.

hehe kind of reminds me of a distorted version of that sea of figures drawing i did a while back, but more surrealistic with the varying sizes of figures and melding together

speaking of, i finally got around to scanning in a slide of that drawing i did...ill have to post it

-wes

[swampbug]

Hey artin yeah, I sorta let it fall into the depths of "figure drawing" forum.

yo wes!.. thanks for the responce. I was greatly inspired by your water drawing, and in fact thats why I made this, to do something similer, yet more my calibur. The task of drawing many people is really new to me, and this one is sorta random. Yours is alot more resolved.

The lines I made around the figures at the time were a reasurance of the silouette. Something I was relly trying to work on. I need to break free of that soon. I like doing it on single drawings or concepts, its really an asthetic thing, but on a larger drawing I should ease up. :)



Cant wait to see the water drawing up.

-later

[JoshuaTheJames]

sup tommy...

Thats funny... I was going to say something about a wes influence... but anyways...

I think you should do more stuff like this!

looks cool,

-Joshua