Week 18 - Studies

So another week of studies has gone by for me and I have now added a couple more to the list. It never stops the work load that I need to work on and it doesn't help that things keep getting in the way of me working.  Okay so here is the breakdown for the week.

Study 1 - Photo study

Finished number 11. Huzzzaaahhh. Now to move onto the next one next week.

Study 2 - Colour-Light study

Started working on the shadow of this one and trying to get the tones in the skin. This one is slowly developing. The fun bit is going to be working on that hair.

Study 3 - Life drawing

Another week another two models down. My Sketch book is getting a little full now. Hopefully also next week I can have my new printer and scanner rigged up and so I don't have to take bad photos of my work to be able to display it and I can actually scan it.

Study 4 - Animal studies

I have decided to move on from doing my digital painting and work on doing the little sketches and the skeletal structure now. I have spent too much time on the digital painting. I am going to re-do this drawing again because it was a absolute failure or at the lest have to re-work what is there he is a little bit to cute and not enough real frog.

Study 5 - Animation

Well I haven't started blocking in the animation yet. What I have done is started to build the main prop for most of the actions and chosen a rig to work with. I shall be finishing off the prop next week and then hopefully starting to block in some animation.

Study 6 - Anatomy Study

This is a new one to focus on. This one here is specifically so I can work on some aspects of anatomy that I feel I need some improvement on. This first session I spent mostly looking for some good refs but I have in fact started one of them. The first session for me is feet because I always get stuck on them I thought it would be a good place to start.

Study 7 - Facial Expression

This here is to focus on drawing people's facial expressions. This is to develop the ability to bring more character out in my drawing but also to convey more expression through them.

Study 8 - Humans in action

I am unsure what to really dub the technique but I figured that I would just call it humans in action. This technique I was taught in tafe a very long time ago. The object of it is to take a picture and break it down into blocks. Then you do about 50 of them and then pick your top 25 to refine. From that you then do your top 10 to refine again and then your top 5 you do a final of. It's a little more of a designer formula then what I have being working on but this will help me with anatomy a lot more. So here is my start.

Okay well next week I should be heading back onto project work as well so I possibly will have a 3D update for you. I have to do a little arranging of the old schedule of mine to prioritise some things so I can get certain things done and make way for the extra hours but other than that life should be fun.

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