Figure From Memory

I felt kinda bad that I haven't updated here since last wednesday, I've been on fire lately though on my other blog. Working on those figure studies every day! Had a very loong day at work today, but glad I still dragged my butt off to life drawing. Check out the drawings here.

I also recently bought a little artist Manikin to help me out with poses from imagination. So I drew one pose and completed a figure drawing without using any reference apart from the wooden manikin for the pose.

The good stuff:
- I really see the improvements on rendering form on the middle section of the body, which I previously always had problem with.
- Definitely a more natural pose working with the manikin.
- Also see an improvement in the knees, I think the figure also has some weight in it.

The stuff to work on:
- How the hip connects to the legs..I think I kinda pulled it off but I'm really just guessing.
- Upper legs still feel kinda weird to me, I'm not at all confident about where the muscles connect to hips or knees
- The connection of the arms to the torso, also the inner arm muscles

BREAKDOWN:

Below is the process I went through  to draw the figure:

1) Gesture based on Manikin pose

2) Draw the manikin to think about volume and perspective

3) Drew the figure on top and also applied the head construction I've been studying form Loomis:

Heads Practice

Did a couple of studies from the book " How to draw the Marvel way" (I think that's what it's called anyway) on my other blog. And once again it all points back to Loomis head construction. So to cap off the evening I also did a page of heads from imagination using the same head construction.

I purposely avoid pushing shapes or injecting character into the drawings so I can just focus on the perspective/construction. Heads aaarrreee haaaaarddd....

Working the memory muscles

I signed up for an anatomy course starting in July, because as you'll see in the image below my anatomy from imagination is questionable at best.

So many muscles that are put at the test when drawing something like this:
- perspective in the body
- conveying form with lines
- anatomy knowledge

So as always here is a figure from imagination..no reference.
...and as always I forgot to actually think of a reason behind the pose :D....

EDIT: Here's another quickie

X-men sketches + heads

Couple of sketches from the All New X-men comics Issue 16. I started off by drawing wonderwoman from a sequence in Justice League War, but in general the animation is...acceptable at best...so I switched to the comics instead.

Then a couple of bad heads from imagination:

And a random pose from imagination with a more "realistic" attempt on the right.

STUDY: Legend of Korra + Heads

Started watching season 2 of "legend of korra"and did some sketches:

Also did a couple of heads for fun from imagination, trying to keep it structural but also being a bit more free with proportions.

Figures from imagination

I had a life drawing session today (LINK), so felt like doing a couple of slower figures from imagination (no reference). I'm sure these are full of mistakes, but I do not have the ability yet to correct it.

I based the poses on what I remember from looking at people waiting for a bus to arrive.

I don't know why but I wanted to push some shapes in that female drawing below, but I'm clueless how to deal with that..especially the pelvis area. I'm still working on studying heads at the moment, so will take some time until I look at that area of the body in detail.

Another couple of drawings without reference from Tuesday:

Heads & poses from imagination

Couple of drawings form imagination without reference after doing some loomis studies.

Not unhappy with my poses from imagination, but lots to learn. I definitely seem to squash the torso and hips too close together, also not really using strong shape design..especially in the legs. I don't erase however (Ctrl+z), these are quick drawings based on how do I do my 1 minute gestures using line to also define some forms.