Turning a windlass photo series

Posted on August 19, 2021

I'm taking a quick break from releasing Rosali bundles to get a few other sorts of bundles out instead - I figure it's a good thing to mix up the release schedule a bit. :)

So today, check out this set of 12 figure study photos by photographer Bill, available immediately for everyone. I'll let him describe the idea behind it in his own words:

"The other day I saw a group of men struggling to turn a large wheel that I assume was attached to a shut off valve of some kind (they were water department employees). I wondered if I could recreate the look using a table that I have and this is the result."

Here's a sample of one of them:

Comments

Aunt Herbert August 19, 2021 12:32pm

Cool idea. Looking forward to drawing them.

NHWilliam August 30, 2021 8:11am

Thank you! I'm looking forward to seeing what these poses inspire.

Phobos Anomaly August 20, 2021 1:02pm

Nice, thanks. I really like and would love to see more 'action' poses in general - models performing real life tasks and interacting with objects. It's very useful for drawing scenes from imagination. People in everyday life rarely assume extreme / dramatic / theatrical poses, but they run, climb steps, lift objects, kneel to pick objects up, etc. So thank you for these pictures from Bill!

NHWilliam August 30, 2021 8:10am

Thanks for the kind words! I'll keep working on "real" poses and I look forward to seeing the art that these inspire.

Pearla (unregistered visitor) September 18, 2021 1:55pm

Thanks, Bill! You guys work so hard on your photography and it really helps us. Keep up the amazing work :)

Stun Gun (unregistered visitor) December 19, 2021 3:05pm

Action poses are always worth practice. I like drawing people in action...it's difficult and interesting at the same time

Stun Gun (unregistered visitor) December 26, 2021 2:47am

Another thing I like about action poses is that you learn the process of human action thanks to drawing and undestanding it. But there's a problem with finding good examples. Some pics are too overloading, others are with bad quality and composition in general. It's hard to focus when the images have poor quality. Sometimes I even have to find the collections of images |I need at https://depositphotos.com/stock-vectors.html and get them for some fee. Anyway, I think it's a good way to spend some money because it's better to have an image with high quality, it makes your work more productive.