Michael Longhurst
Michael Longhurst
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Michael Longhurst
The one from the back was based on the orientation in a picture. I did the one from the front next from imagination using a couple pictures as references. Definitely still some errors, but I felt like my second came out a lot better. Still struggling to balance using the axis lines vs the points on the box. Although I think part of the problem is not getting perfect squares in perspective. Any advice would be appreciated.
Michael Longhurst
A couple pictures I took of the car at the Fourney Transportation Museum in Denver. Great source for old car, motorcycle, and train references!
Michael Longhurst
I really liked the way Yusuke Murata used line thickness and spacing in his rendering on the so decided to do a study of it. As always I need to keep working on steady straight lines, but I was happy with how it came out.
Melanie Scearce
This is nice! I like that you lightened the value of the bar and bartender. Nice choice 👍
Elijah R
30d
How long did this take you? It looks like a lot of work since you did the entire drawing.
Michael Longhurst
Probably bit off more than I could chew on this one, but felt like I learned a lot from it. Any advice or feedback would be appreciated.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Biting off more than you can choose is a perfect place to learn. These mannequins are great!
Michael Longhurst
Great assignment. Really tough, but really made me think about the orientation of each box and how to draw it. I struggled a lot with the proportions and getting the fingers to point in just the right position, but feels like it’s getting easier.
Michael Longhurst
Here’s some of the ones I did. Struggled on 10 and 12 to get the shapes right. Still need to watch proportions, as I often have to extend the head after I start adding features.
Martha Muniz
Keep at it, you're already at a great place! Keep an eye on the placement of the features, making sure that they continue the perspective set by the box, especially that the eyes follow the horizontal guidelines on the box in relationship to each other as well as constructing the nose as if it were a smaller box following the same original perspective.
Michael Longhurst
I did a simplified study of MC Escher’s Waterfall. I had a lot of trouble lining up the zigzagging pathways, but was happy with how it came out. I included a prior draft where I was still working out some problems. Lots of things to learn from on this one. One thing that I might try later is to incorporate the way Escher used the brickwork to lower the tops of each corner to make it seem more like the water could flow up. Great assignment, I really enjoyed studying this.
Vishal Hudge
My brain is officially short-circuiting, I'm lost in a wonderful maze of confusion. Send help (and more of this).
Michael Longhurst
Two more pages from references and then two drawings from imagination. I tried to be a lot more gestural on these which I felt like came out better.
Melanie Scearce
Great seals! Gesture breathes life into your drawing. I like to start with finding that action line, usually the longest line connecting the top to the bottom. It helps a lot when drawing from imagination to create a more cohesive and dynamic drawing. You can get so many different poses and energies with one line.
Michael Longhurst
The first two were ones I did from the references and the third was from imagination. I struggled with the less active poses and only had one imaginary one that wasn’t really bad. I think I’m going to do another round of both then watch the demos and critique.
Michael Longhurst
Second attempt . This was after some back and forth checking and correcting. I was pretty good on the head and face, but the shoulders were way off so I corrected. Need to be more careful with the “less important” proportions!
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4mo
Nice work, though I will suggest using a better reference where light and dark has much more contrast, so you can actually see shapes and that help you if you draw that pose again or from imagination. Though really great work, the angles are perfect you are just missing some shapes in between shapes, but that's not a problem from measurements, it's just anatomy problem. Master piece michael
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