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Andrea Böhm
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My homework - with varying degrees of success ... Most difficult for me was "Turning the Figure" and drawing from references with a lot of foreshortening.
Comments and critiques are very welcome!
Courts
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Hi everyone! Had a lot of fun with this one, i’ve found Michael’s gesture techniques very easy to understand and adopt/adapt into my prior techniques.
My master studies were comprised of art from Frank Frazetta, Patrick Jones and the man himself Mr Hampton and i did probably a bit better than i expected from imagination.
Any critique/feedback would be greatly appreciated and i very much look forward to participating in future projects.
Super expressive! You captured the poses and successfully exaggerated some.
The only critique I have that on some there are way too much wrapping lines - that many do not help the 3D impression and divert from the fluid gesture.
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I struggled most in imagining different poses for the references provided. Doing stuff completely from imagination was easier for me. While doing the gesture studies, I faced some problems that I want to list here:
1. In his demo, @Michael Hampton showed us female delicate poses. But I was having difficulty in following that while describing strong muscular males in action. For example, the Steve Huston study where the hands are stretched or in case the hands supports weight.
2. In the demo, the opposite side of the thoracic is always in stretch. But in some figures, like in Stan's female figure, the spine is stretched and I don't know how to draw the twist in it.
3. In Huston's lying figure, the spine bends inwards, again, I have no idea how to implement the 16 line approach in that.
4. As clarified in the demo, the contours follow the spine placement, i.e., as the thoracic spine pushes outwards, the contours are convex. But what if I am viewing the figure from a slightly top angle. The perspective now calls for a opposite curve. I faced the issue in Stan's male figure drawing.
5. I mentioned this earlier, but I want to dedicate a point on the fact that twists are puzzling me. The reference image no.4, the lower female figure, where I tried to imagine a different pose has a twist that I found very hard to simplify.
If anyone faced the same issues or if anyone has any suggestions to solve these problems, please let me know.
I think you did a great job! I wish I could captures the poses as good as you did.
For your Steve Huston drawings I have some suggestions. I am afraid that these will not answer your questions but might bring other aspects into the discussion.
E.g. for conveying the strong pull in the male pose you could use a continues c-curve from the shoulder to the hand instead of several s-curves. And you could bend the rear leg to depict that he stems against a force.
The lying pose looks quite outline oriented. That said I don‘t know how to do it better - many parts of the body overlap and have a similar direction! Many Michael could show us? My suggestion for this gesture would be to draw the c-curve for the thoracic portion of the spine with a different orientation and to draw the lumbar section much shorter.
Riku H
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Week 3. These are hard to do if I didnt have a specific form in mind on how to simplify the reference. Especially when it came to the feet in weird perspectives it was hard to twist my mind to "see" the underlying forms. When it came to that I used the shadow forms and contours to try to find the drawing. Also I filled the mapped shadow areas after the 5min :)
Andrea Böhm
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4mo
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My assignments for week1. You can easily spot on which ones I could concentrate ...
Andrea Böhm
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5mo
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My level 1 assignment: The light values on the 11-value-scale were difficult for me. This might be because I did not start with a pure black. As a result the swatches 8 to 10 are too close together in value. To get these as light as possible I intentionally hatched these swatches more than filling them with an even, homogeneous tone.
