Life Drawing: Summer compilation art dump
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This summer I attended a course called “Life Drawing”, given by the awesomely talanted and patient Pernilla Persson here at Campus Gotland so I’m uploading a small compilation of what we have covered during the summer and some personal pieces to show some of the During the first weeks Pernilla spoke a lot about rhytm and gesture, getting down that first impression and seeing the gesture (what the model is conveying) rather than anatomy or parts. Eventually, structure, form and anatomy were added onto these principles but staying loose and playful was a theme throughout the entire course.
A guest lecturer, Sylvia Strand held two lessons about cloth and the different types of folds.
We also worked quite a bit on the head and drawing faces and hands…
For the hands I took a couple of days and went through Burne Hogarth’s book “Drawing Dynamic hands”. The man is a real master and I got a lot of good rules of thumb
We also did some sculpturing which I hope will feel useful once I get to working in ZBrush but even so, feeling and shaping the form in all three dimensions felt very different from working with it on paper. Having never really sculpted before it was an in equal measures educating and frustrating experience, having to start over pretty much fresh. Below is my forest sprite. The added details did a good job of concealing the parts where the wire still shone through. In that sense, sculpting is even worse than painting, if you mess up in your initial stages you are very much screwed.
Finally for our final assignment we had to choose an artwork and make it our own by re-designing the pose to capture the “gesture” of the piece (seeing a theme yet?). For external reasons it ended up being a really busy week so the piece ended up being done over pretty much one evening. Anyway, the poses in my version turned out quite different from the original artwork as I genuinely found the original gesture to be a bore (cupid fixes dainty posing lady’s hair) and decided to go for something saucier.
So how about the personal work? Well, this summer I’ve been working on getting up the saturation of colour on my artpieces/getting the black and white out of my painting, besides the anatomy, gesture and composition parts in Life Drawing, slowly working my way toward the painterly style seen in artists like Jen Zee (Lead Artist for Bastion and Transistor) Did it pay off? Somewhat! For comparison below, first the poster art i made for the course 2D-II in april, next to it, my latest concept work:
Getting there! Slowly and painfully but getting there. It feels like there is alot of change happening from piece to piece now, for proof a few other pieces made between June and August
And finally, in honour of starting a new Mass Effect trilogy-playthrough this summer, Kitty Commander Shepard to the rescue!
It’s still very much the beginning of a journey here but sometimes it’s nice to remind yourself that you’re still making progress. Thanks for reading!  |
