asses & hips

some aspects I tough I needed to pay attention too ;)
I started with a picture from a book that had a skeleton overlay. this was pretty clear to look at, but to draw it, it of course made a bit of a mess. can't say I minded at this stage.

when I sort of had the bones down in front and side view, I wanted to try out some 3/4. which turned out to be pretty hard to do.

So, I went back a bit, then simplified a little. that helped a bit.

So, I then went on to drawing in the bones from photo reference.

Well I was pretty happy with that, so the next day I did a bit of muscles, and went on to drawing them in from photo reverence again.

knees and legs

I actually meant to do hips and crotches, because those really need work. but the anatomy book opened on knees... and I never made it. kind of sad, in a way. :)


seriously. knees are hard. the kneeling one is by heart, the rest from my book.. and after all that, I'm still not sure if I got the lower part of the joint right.
the hips I did start on. but the book was a little less clear on that. or, at least, I found it confusing. showing different viewpoints without making it clear which angle we are looking from.

no worries, I have quite a few books. ill just pick another one.

fish or steak

tought id try something different from people and animals for once. though, strictly speaking.. it is animal.

3 tonals

trying to put some tones into my stuff. first and last are from pictures. middle is real live.

new pics

2 quick new ones. legs mostly.

randomness

I know I was working on improving some part of my drawing skill. but, as I practiced, I kind of lost track. now, I'm not really sure what I was working on. just the sense of a shortcoming remains. its sad really. but perhaps I can reverse engineer where I was coming from.

ah yes, line work. I was very unhappy with my line work. its scribbly and unclear. usually 5 lines to choose from where one would have done. I was trying to clean it up. to this purpose, I practiced on photographs, mostly with a pen, so I couldnt redo a line.
tried this on real live too. cause, well, its just soo much more then a picture ;)

somewhere I grabbed back to the old pencil. I guess I figured I could do clean lines with that too. pictures and some carl barks duckies. this is also part of where I try and do others styles. I really never drew duckies before so I think they're ok. even if they're just copies.



at this point I didn't want to do line drawings anymore. I wanted to look at mass and shadow. so I drew some from photographs.


next day I drew this after my boyfriend (and cat), I was pretty happy with it. of course, the day after I drew this:
now, I've drawn some pretty lousy things in the past.. but this one somehow tops it :/
then, yesterday, I did a line drawing, and one shape drawing. just by heart.

hmm.. ok. now that I've got it lined up, it sort of makes sense again :) and I might have actually been getting somewhere ^^ yay. guess it wasn't all that random after you arrange your toughts.