more homework

probably very boring, but keeping on doing memory sketches from Loomis and doodling figures from imagination. As they say, without the bad drawings there can't be improvement. Gotta work on the things we suck at :P

More homework

Drawn on my ipad, top page drawn at the end of day, the one below during break earlier.

And then a page from Loomis, I tell you. If you master the ideas and practices in his book, you will be pretty awesome at drawing figures from any angle doing anything! 

Homework

Again self imposed homework, either copying from Loomis but most of these are drawn from memory and doing poses from imagination, all in biro done quickly rather than trying to get it right.

Loomis measurements

I always believe in checking things for yourself, not taking anything as a fact. So I wanted to see how accurate this Loomis mannikin is, and to be honest it's pretty spot on!

The biggest things to point out is the way Loomis simplifies the pelvis with those 45 degree angled discs, and he seems to exaggerate the way the upper leg bends in.

Another thing I was curious about is the relative size of the torso which is about 1,5 times the size of the head in lenght, unless you measure from the clavicle, in which case it measures just a bit over the lenght of a head. The pelvis is about 1 head in lenght with half a head in between the torso and pelvis.

Homework

Self imposed homework, either copying from Loomis or using the mannikin.

And some terrible figures with no reference.

Figure Practice

Technically I was just drawing figures, but it's always nice to put 'some' personality in them instead of these Dr Manhattan looking figures. The first one is pretty ok, the others pretty bad, but that's why I've decided to do a Loomis month! Meaning figure studies to improve my posing.

JUNE = Loomis Month

So I've decided to work on figure drawing again, because drawing storyboards is all about gesture and I am losing my ability to properly draw the figure. I was reading some old school 80s comics as of late (Teen Titans by Wolfman and drawn by Perez). And I was wondering where they studied from...so I picked up this 'How to draw the Marvel way' by Stan Lee and Buscema and noticed how it's almost exactly the same as the Loomis method!

So here's my journey this month to go back over some fundamentals using Loomis: Figure drawing for All it's Worth.

PROPORTIONS
I never really pay attention to proportions, I never measure anything, so this was a good place to start, check out how similar the proportions are in Loomis and the Marvel one: