Still July..

I'm trying to give myself a better understanding of the building blocks (no pun intended) of drawing.  For now, I'm going to try to focus more on gesture and the basic tools of drawing (box, sphere, cylinder and cone), rather than continuing with the anatomy stuff.  The box is really handy!  It's useful for determining orientation, relative placement and basic proportions of objects (and more things too, I'm sure).  

Some gestures.  That is all.

Rain and Snow Today

Title has nothing to do with the content.  Again, nothing exciting.  Chilling back home in the country this weekend.  Some gesture poses on the right, and a bored doodle on the left.  Kind of like the head, the rest not so much.  I notice with my gestures that my proportions are wonky, would like to correct that.. how.. better observation?

Here's something from October 2010.  I suppose that's not all that long ago.. around half a year.

Moar Gesture!

Another page of 1 minute poses.  Sorry it's not something more interesting :p.  I enjoy these, they're fun to try.  I went over a bunch after I was done, adding extra value.  Don't know if I'll be posting something saturday night, we'll see.

Love this stuff: http://www.artbyfeng.com/index.html

Gesture

In an effort to draw from something by sight, I've been looking at posemaniacs for some human forms.  I was using the applet made for exercising gesture drawing.  I gave myself 60 seconds for each pose, the default is 30 seconds but that's too quick for me!  http://www.posemaniacs.com/

It was somewhat stressful, knowing that I only had so long to try to capture what was shown.  Good practice though, I'd find it difficult to enforce a hard cut off time limit on myself doing my regular doodles.