Another Vintage

Might as well post another vintage figure while I'm at it. I was actually kinda pleased with the torso of this one, but I'm still not getting great results with my fabric and folds.

Swinger, Slave

This DeviantArt member posts a lot of really useful public-domain vintage photos which are ideal to use as drawing reference.



I find these photos are great for lighting, poses as well as hand and feet, which the photographers of the time seemed to pay a lot of attention to.

4 Stock Sketches

Just a few quick ink figures to keep the blog alive.



This DeviantArt photographer has great reference material for figure sketching practice.

Ink Figures

Lately, I've been enjoying using the combo of fountain pen and brush pen when I go to life drawing sessions.

    

It's been a long time

Yes it has. I guess I've left the blog rotting because I tend to just put stuff up on my site without writing much about it, or post stuff elsewhere on the interwebs. But here's a recent painting. Actually several weeks old now, as you can tell from the weather...



Otherwise, most of my new work has been practice stuff, which you can find in the sketchbooks section of my site. Mostly I've been focusing on sketching scenes from around town in pen and ink, as well as getting back into life drawing whenever I can make time.

Anatomy Resources

Here are some additional anatomy web resources that I've found recently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_anatomy
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/
http://www.reybustos.com/03ra/ra.html

Anatomy Phase I: Complete!

So I've gone through the first 74 videos in The Structure of Man. And I can now do the following from memory:



Well, about 90% anyway. There are some details on the hands and the radius & ulna that I'm still a bit hazy about. Before I move on to the muscles, I'll try to do a few exercises putting the skeleton in 3D and in a variety of poses.