Sova Fanart 4: Class Unit 2 Day 1
UNIT TWO: Dynamic Figure Drawing | Day 1 – Explore figure sketching techniques/simplification
I’ve been actively avoiding working on this challenge all day. I feel like it is because it is so damn overwhelming. It took so much for me to even just sit down and start working on this.
But now that I have sat down and am working on this, I want to create a mini lesson plan for today.
Since today is about exploring figure sketching techniques and simplification, I shall design a lesson plan to make it impossible not to get good at those things. As I’ve said before, lesson plans let me connect to the present moment, on one task at a time. This in turn helps me work through the feeling of being overwhelmed.
Mini syllabus for: explore figure sketching techniques/simplification
Total time: 90 minutes (est 30 min per unit, 10 min per part)
Mini unit 1: Research
- Part 1: OpenAI and Bing
- Part 2: Google
- Part 3: Youtube
Mini unit 2: Experiment
- Part 1: School of thought 1
- Part 2: School of thought 2
- Part 3: School of thought 3
Mini unit 3: Practice
- Part 1: Simple poses
- Part 2: Dynamic poses
- Part 3: Foreshortened and perspective poses
Mini unit 1: Research
Part 1: OpenAI and Bing
Part 2: Google
Why You Should Start with Armatures When Learning to Draw Figures (artistsnetwork.com)
How to draw figures without a model – Artists & Illustrators (artistsandillustrators.co.uk)
Draw Heads On Any Angle, From Your Imagination (howtodrawcomics.net)
Part 3: Youtube
Main school of thought to try out:
- Basic armature
- Circle head, half for nose line, half of that for mouth line
- line for neck
- line for spine
- line for hips perpendicular to spine
- line for shoulders perpendicular to spine
- Head shapes
- circle with lopped side for skull
- cut cube for face
- Sketchy woodwork for finding pose
- Keep scratching until a form emerges
- Erase or lighten then refine
- Advanced shapes
- triangle tricep
- triangle forearm
- teardrop thighs
- diamond calf
- box pecs
- triangle delts
- pen tip torso
Mini unit 2: Experiment
Part 1: School of thought 1
I practiced basic armature and it looked pretty bad. I think I started to improve when I moved the hips a little higher.
Part 2: School of thought 2
Things started to improve a little here. I really like the method of simple shapes for the head. I felt like I understood the geometry much better.
Part 3: School of thought 3
This is when I used the sketchy woodwork carving out a pose and when I refined it, I used the advanced shaped coupled with everything else I learned. I really really like this method. Gives me dynamic poses without losing the anatomy.
I didn’t get to Unit 3 because I feel complete and it is 2AM and I want to go to bed.
Very happy with today’s progress. I feel like I killed it at the figure drawings and I feel much more confident drawing figures.