Visualisation Piece Number Two

Visualisation WIP

Drawing

This posts label is actually deceiving, as this drawing wasn't drawn from life, and neither have I cheated by drawing from a photo. Recently I've been spending as much time as I can spare going through anatomy books and generally practising anything that will help me properly understand the human anatomy and proportion. The general idea has followed a similar style to the french method of sculpture called ecorche (there should be some accents in there but I can't remember how to insert them on keyboards) in which the sculptor models the skeleton first, then the layers of muscles and finally the skin. The idea being that by understanding everything this is under the skin, the bones that give the figure its shape and proportion, the muscles and how they allow the body and the skin to move, that when the finally come to adding the skin and surface detail they have incredibly accurate sculptures. The theory is that once you fully understand what is underneath from many angles (I've been working in front, side and back orthographic views and also creating 3/4th view drawings) you can create a very detailed study of the human form. Over this year I have really learnt the lesson of making sure that you actually understand what you are trying to create or reproduce (not just in drawing but in animation, modelling, texturing etc) to properly create a human figure in 3D model form you must actually know how it looks from all angles rather than having an idea and filling in the gaps with how you mind thinks it looks rather than knowing how it looks. The same goes for animations, how can you create a realistic movement if you dont understand what you are doing during that movement, hence why the animators always try and act out what they are animating. I hope you enjoy the drawing its far from perfect but I feel its a huge improvement and a good progression to where I want to be with my drawings.

Christmas Work

We were set a little christmas project to keep the drawing up, and out of the choices of subject matter I chose hands - my reasoning was hands in my opinion are a particular weak point of my drawing and so I took the opportunity to try and get in a bit of practise. Here are a selection of some of the drawings I've done over Christmas.

Even More Life Drawings

These are the last couple from the Life Drawings around the place, I have more that need to be scanned in an uploaded but I will get to those once I've finished uploading the huge backlog of stuff that I have at the moment.

More Life Drawings

This is the second load of life drawings, these ones are a mixture of lengths and mostly drawn from all over the place, some on buses, trains, and beyond.

Life Drawings

Im making a start on posting a pick of life drawing work i ve been doing over the last term and a bit from over the christmas hols, still not happy that I'm doing enough really got to work on whipping the sketchbook out more often. Anyway these are all life drawings that were done in about 30 seconds each before the position changed.