The Classwork Thread

[Dis]

that gingerbread man looks like he's genuinely enjoying himself

[Inaaca]

He totally is.

[Inaaca]

Here's some stuff from my Life Drawing class back in last semester, a little outdated now, since I never got pics of them until recently.

I really hated the professor for that class, though, seriously. I spent most of my time being livid over her teaching methods, so I wasn't into my artwork a lot during that class.

That being said, a few gems did come out of it, which I will now post.





A simple profile headshot of a live model, rendered in charcoal.





An interesting assignment in which we had to combine the three layers of bone, muscle, and flesh onto a single figure however we chose. Each layer was rendered in a different color of color pencil.

I believe all of this was drawn from skeletal models and reference diagrams/photos.





Another interesting assignment in which we had to draw the same profile headshot in four different styles using four different medium.

Top left is a realistic rendering in charcoal.
Top right is a somewhat simplified cartoonish drawing in blue color pencil.
Bottom left is a simple angular approach using graphite.
Bottom right is a mix of cartoonish and realism using a combination of two different color pencils.

[Captain Galaxy]

Dude, I didn't know you were this good.

[Inaaca]

Heh, life drawing brings out a whole different side to my art. I'll be sure to post ones from the most recent semester soon, too.

[Inaaca]

An exercise done in Illustration class in preparation for the fourth project. We were given a selection of characters that we were challenged to convey to the audience both their physical and emotional traits using only a black silhouette.

Some are certainly more successful than others, but you're welcome to try and guess what the silhouettes are meant to convey.



The challenges are listed below if you're curious:

1) Cowardly chicken
2) Brave bird
3) Lovestruck bird
4+5) Two dogs in conflict
6+7) Cat stalking a rabbit
8) Drunken goat
9) Stupid dragon
10) Stuck-up unicorn

[Kuat]

The only thing I can see is "Who's that pokemon?!"

[Muramasa]

#9 is totally charzard.

[You probably can't touch this.]

#1 - Magicarp

[Inaaca]

Finally getting around to uploading the rest of my classwork from last semester.

This is the end result of project #4 in Illustration A that the silhouette exercise was preparing for, and was also the final project.

She had us draw one word out of each of three hats. This left you with three words that you had to combine into an image; an animal, an attitude, and a role.

I drew "Turtle," "Self-centered," and "Nun." Needless to say, combining them was a challenge. The medium I used was pastel chalks.

So here it is, my self-centered turtle nun.

[Inaaca]

Alright! Finally gonna upload last semester's life drawing stuff. I have a lot to upload, so I'm going to stagger the posting a bit over the next several days to avoid flooding and to allow a chance for potential comments.

I'll be starting with the earlier constructive stuff and gradually moving forward and ending off with my best work. Enjoy.





These first two images are my attempts at a newly learned form of gesture drawing (capturing the essence of a pose in a few seconds). He called it scribble gesture, or noodle drawing.






This next one is a slightly more refined variety of scribble gesture. Still working the same way, but giving more attention to shape and form within the pose. This approach worked particularly well with the more heavyset model that day.




Last upload for the day. This was easily my favorite assignment from life drawing last semester. Basically, we had to take a scene with 8 or more figures from any source, and convert them into constructive mannequins.

I borrowed a panorama across 3 comic book covers from Sara for my scene and did a full size conversion. Very fun to do.

[Captain Galaxy]

Dude, those heavyset model ones are HAWT!

[Inaaca]

She was a pretty attractive model.

[Inaaca]

Here's some more, moving away from gesture and into construction now...





These next two both started with a basic armature skeleton (the blue lines) and were overlapped with contour lines to represent the actual figure. It was a way to get us to look at the pose first and the outlines after. He seemed particularly impressed with the second one, saying that I had really nailed down a difficult pose.






Practice on head and facial construction in this next one. The vertical and horizontal lines serve the purpose of properly lining up and relating all the various features. Photo references were used to make these.




A full body skeletal study with skin contour. This is the first time I've tried to draw a realistic skeleton in anything other than a static standing pose. Drawn from photo and diagram references.




A full body muscle study. As with the previous, this is the first time I've attempted to draw the musculature of the entire figure in anything other than a static standing pose. This one was particularly challenging, because muscle is really complex and changes drastically depending on the angle, so it was very difficult to find decent references that worked for me. I wouldn't be surprised if it's flawed in areas. Again, drawn from photo and diagram reference.




Last one of the day. This one pulls all the previous ones together. It consists of three drawings overlapped with layers of tissue paper. The bottom is a somewhat simplified skeletal armature (gray), middle is mannequin construction (blue), and top is a contour lining (brown). This was drawn from a small statue of a figure and a full sized skeleton model we had in class.

[Captain Galaxy]

Is that guy on the bottom doing a pelvic thrust? "Hee hee, Billie jean is not my lover..."

[Inaaca]

Heh, sure Adrian. Why not.

[Inaaca]

Alright, next I'll be posting things that were done in the transitional period between construction and full figure renders, or simply things that don't fit anywhere else.





A rendering of white drapery. Technically, it was just an undershirt draped over a cd rack under my desk lamp, heh. He had us do this in preparation for future assignments that would incorporate drapery.




A rendering of 5 chicken eggs. I drew 5 actual eggs sitting under my desk lamp "spotlight" and sitting atop a white sheet. This exercise was in preparation for drawing the human form.

The idea here is that everything in the human body is a series of egg shapes (different sizes and varying degrees of the shapes being squashed and stretched out, but primarily egg shapes nonetheless). He is a firm believer that if you can master rendering the lighting on an egg, then the human form should come easily.




Rendering of a well built live model, focusing on the torso area. I think the egg shape idea comes through particularly well in this, particularly in the area of the muscles on the side of the torso.




Hand and foot rendering practice. The model for this one was Sara herself.




Last one for today. This is a master copy of one of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings. I was already a fan of Leonardo before, but after doing this I gotta say I have a new appreciation for how masterful his rendering is.

[Muramasa]

Sara has a really stubby foot...

[Inaaca]

Hey now, no making fun of the model's feet.

[Inaaca]

My life drawing professor last semester was kind of obsessed with self portraits. He apparently did self portraits all the time, and over the course of the semester, he assigned three of them. One as our first assignment, another as a midterm project, and a third as a final project (not to be confused with the midterm and final tests, which were drawings in themselves still to be posted).

I'm not going to bother posting the first self portrait, but I'll post the other two. I'm not particularly fond of any of them, honestly, but I'm probably biased.





This is the midterm project. Unfortunately, due to missing a class, procrastinating, and being ill informed.. I didn't realize it held such significance and kind of whipped this up last minute. So due to this, the quality is lacking and some proportions are off.. but all things considered it could've been worse.

As far as medium is concerned I used charcoal, layering the paper with a midtone first. Photo reference.




This is the final project. He added a twist to this one, where you had to insert your face into an existing classical painting. I chose a self portrait by Rembrandt to put myself in.

Certainly more care was put into this one, but I still think I rushed the construction a bit since I noticed things were off down the road. Oh well. The drapery assignment came in handy here.