Reply With QuoteI'd recommend Bridgman or Loomis over Hogarth. They'll give you a good base for anatomy and from there you can experiment with Hogarth who has...some stranger anatomy.
Well here I with my new cintiq well actually its a really old one but i picked it up on ebay for $300
I'm going to pretty much be doing studies from Hogarth for the first hundred days and trying to draw each illustration from dynamic anatomy. I only got one done tonight so off to a very slow start in my opinion.
I'm using adobe Illustrator might switch over to Photoshop don't know yet.
here is mine
here is Hogarth's
I'm hoping with time my speed will improve and maybe I'll be able to get more than one page done per night.
I'd recommend Bridgman or Loomis over Hogarth. They'll give you a good base for anatomy and from there you can experiment with Hogarth who has...some stranger anatomy.
Yeah but that means I'll have to restart my hundred days damnit
Easier to restart early in a 100 days long goal than it is to break some nasty drawing habits. :P
The Force series is also quite useful.
You may want to try using posemaniacs, lovecastle, or pixelovely for your warmup gestures.
Loomis's figure drawing for all its worth is one of my favourite possesions.wish i could afford them all.downloads for now.
i'm a little more advanced but i'd say 100 days is way too many for that. I say go and get some tracing paper. Trace everything that catches your eye in your books. Every time you figure hey, i could do that without tracing, do it. Every time you think, hey i think i've figured something out, draw it in your sketchbook. Tracing is drawing as long as you know what you are doing is practicing a working process. Roughs first. roughs are your first layer. If you do skeletons, or bubble figures or whatever they are the first layer. make some copies or print out a bunch of Buscema or loomis whatever rough skeletons and then draw the bodies onto them. Get a newsprint sketchbook and don't intend to keep a single page of it. See how many pages you can fill up tear out and throw away in a day. I do things like this just to warm up sometimes. I couldn't imagine stretching that over 100 days.
I've always wondered...how much do you think tracing helps? I've always avoided it like the plague.
for me it just helps me remember how lines work. I suppose it takes some foundation knowledge before you start tracing to see why you are tracing this or that. It's about finding line relationships and rhythms and how things flow etc. I think it helps because you find something that works for you and you like it you'll remember it. I find artists that i like and pull from them the things that i like. J.C. Leyendecker, bernie wrightson, barry windsor smith, they just have techniques that i find appealing. things that i just wouldn't find in my own "happy mistakes." So i feel like i learn faster when i do that.
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