dynamic figurative drawing

I went on with the dynamic figurative drawing tutorial. Now it was time to put some effort in the anatomy of a woman. The difference was that i didn't drew all the muscles from the woman and this made it a easier process. The same for the lighting, i didn't draw a lot of small shadow areas and was really careful with putting shadows on the paper. With a woman you can get a away with just some thicker lines here and there. But why the difference? Mostly because the ideal picture of a woman doesn't include a lot of muscles. Its all about the round forms and not about: look at my girl and see how muscular she is, isn't that sexy? Depends of course but i prefer different.

who says stealing is bad?

I stole this from polycount.com a wonderful place to learn more about 3d worlds and environments. Reading some articles I came along this piece. And I have to say its something an artist doesn't want to hear but nevertheless I think there is a big truth in it unfortunate. Is it unfortunate? I think its a wonderful world that people want to learn from each other. So bless you all!

Drawing the human body

This time I started with a tutorial from David Finch about his process to draw the human body in a dynamic way. He goes through the muscles and there connections. Tells and shows you about inking(line weight) and goes further with that by lighting the characters completely by adding shadow areas. He is a cartoonist and did draw a lot of the marvel characters. So that means its a good start to get familiar with the human body in a doable way. I learned a lot this way just by trying it all myself and pausing when needed. His blog: (http://davefinchart.blogspot.com/)

On the right side you can see how I started with a sketch of the muscles and slowly gave the lines more weight and in the end gave it the needed shadows by using a single light source coming from the top left. I also used my eraser a lot more because of the different stadiums. When I finished the sketch of all the muscles I erased it

softly and started to add only the most important muscle lines and after that the shadows. I loved watching this tut so thnx Dave!

photoshop portrait

At the moment im trying a lot of different things. I have a big interest in knowing more about construction, lighting and colours. So I started with a painting.

Something I love to do. Its a painting from my dad. I used a picture as reference and started with the construction, free handed. After I had a steady construction I started painting in the groundcolours by picking the colours myself and slowely started to give it some more details. I still not finished it. What is one of my biggest problems. So my next challenge should be

finishing something I started till the end. Starting with this piece.