Here after chopping/burning have not worked they try and pull them out by hand.

In this part of the story vines have taken over a gnome village and the villagers attempt various methods to rid themselves of the vines. I did another round of 20 poses this morning and then I started working on some studies for a scene in the book project I am working on. So only way to get there is more drawing and practice! I am also hoping it will help me break through some metal blocks I have been having with art and the projects I am working on and not feeling up to par with where I had hoped to be. This was a brand new sketchbook - and I am going to use it solely for continuing to practice this type of figure drawing until it is filled up. I noticed after I got going that I started to pull on the info Will/Jake share in some of the classes here, regarding the bean shape and it really helped me visualize the torso's much better and also helped me figure out the torso when the pose of the model was more distorted or covered partially by an arm/leg etc. I used the default one minute for each pose as I felt like that would be enough time to get the basic shapes without allowing me to try and go into detail (my constant problem). So this seemed like a great way to start for now until I have a chance to go to a live drawing session and give that a try.

I have taken formal art classes but yet never had a single figure drawing class nor have I done any live model type of drawing before. I usually try to make my ref lib images at least 800 pixels, to offer more detail.After recommended the site on another thread on here the other day I decided to give it a try. If you’re not familiar with the ref lib, go here to check out the contribution guidelines:Īlso, you’re entirely welcome to post your assignment photos here in this thread, but do be sure to upload them to the library! And remember that you can put larger photos in the library than you can here. Pictures of hands doing things, hands holding things, hands resting, feet standing, stretching, toes wiggling, anything! As you can see, the reference image library could use a few more images that fit this category: This isn’t a terribly exciting photo by itself, but it makes for a good reference image – I had a great time drawing it: Here’s one I took myself, as an example of what I mean. Having a single light source is also good, to create good light and shadow on the subject. For this first assignment, for example, a good reference photo of hands and feet would be quite simple, a closeup of the subject with as little around to clutter the photo as possible. The goal here is to enrich the reference image library, because it’s a great resource that will only become better if we help to fill in a few of the gaps! With that in mind, remember that sometimes taking a good reference photo isn’t the same as taking a good art photo. IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ all the info I’ve provided here before participating, so we all know what this is about. So I figured that’s as good a place to start as any! And since one of the recent photgraphy monthly projects was hands, I’m sure many of you already have some good photos you could contribute! Okay, here we go! I was trying to think of a topic for our first ref lib assignment, and then I went DUH, because I was just in there yesterday looking for some photos of hands to draw, and I wasn’t finding a whole lot to choose from.

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