Forum posts by Bodedo

Woah, very inspiring! Great work, love the way you stylise your figure drawing!

Ahoy! I'm here for Forum Posting Round 2, Electric Boogaloo. This time with added bodies!

I decided to take a break from all the hands and dedicate some effort towards actual life-drawing for once. Critique is very much appreciated for obvious reasons (Proportions? I hardly knew ye.)

So, here they are. I'm not gonna say these drawings were half-assed because me mam taught me better than to be anything other than a whole-ass kinda guy, but I will admit that they do kind of give off a sort of partial-buttock kind of vibe. I just want you to know that I tried.

(Also dang can we talk about how the Asian forger and his spambot got Thanos'd straight off this site? Who knew there were actual people here under all that felony?)

Alright. 40 minutes later and I've decided to compile the whole lot into a pdf and just link it, because while each and every drawing is the beloved mutant child of my fevered mind and I can pore lovingly over their grotesque geometries for hours, I'm gonna take pity on the intrepid document forger and his hardworking spambot sidekick, and just make it a thing you can flick through in a couple of seconds.

enjoy

One hundred pages and I only Victor-Frankensteined eight, not a bad turnout, all told.

• Bodedo edited this post on November 14, 2019 11:55pm. Reason: fight club jokes? That's so passe.

I've been an artist for years and while my strengths and weaknesses fluctuate, I've always consistently sucked at drawing hands. I started using the hand drawing tool a couple of months back and I've just finished up my first sketchbook (lovingly dubbed the handy dandy notebook). Looking back through them, I honestly can't say I prefer the latest drawings to the ones I did at the very start, but I've been alive long enough to realise progress isn't always strictly linear.

This certainly hasn't been a daily thing, barely even scraping a weekly endeavour sometimes, but finishing the whole notebook has given me the sense of accomplishment I need to take this to another level, aka. posting my wretched hands to this forum. On one hand (hah) it doesn't look like batch uploads are possible on this forum so this could potentially take a while. On the other hand, I am procrastinating on emails right now. On the other-other hand, which I keep hidden under my shirt most days, it seems this forum is pretty deserted beside that one guy desperately trying to forge academic transcripts, to whom I say, "Bruh. We all know how to use photoshop here. 放松."

So. Potentially there's actually only one person here to bear witness to my shame, and luckily he's clearly got some other things weighing heavy on his mind.

Here's a sneak preview of the hilarity to come, whilst I calculate the """efficiency""" of uploading over a hundred images to tinypic.

• Bodedo edited this post on October 28, 2019 2:05am. Reason: welp, seems like tinypic has kicked the (photo)bucket. well I never liked him anyway.
• Bodedo edited this post on November 14, 2019 11:54pm.
• Bodedo edited this post on November 14, 2019 11:54pm.

Fantastic drawings! I'm not at all an amazing life drawer or anything like that, so I don't really think I can offer much in the way of valid critique. There are some pointers people have given me though that I can share with you though :D

1. This one is more challenging when drawing with photos than with the traditional, sit-in lifedrawing class, but it's good to think of the model as a 3D object with volume rather than a 2d image. When it comes to poses with tricky perspective, sometimes softly tracing the volume of the figure before going over the outline helps for proportion.

2. When it comes to longer held poses, it's easy to get lost in the little details, but try not to focus too much on each limb individually. Instead, take your time at the start capturing the full flow and gesture of the pose, and keep in mind how each part of the body attaches to the rest, even when the points of attachment are obscured (either by pose or drapery)

3. I don't know what weight pencil you prefer, but it's always fun to experiment with new materials. Heavier weight pencils (6B is my preference) play nicely with things like line weight. Varying the line weights will give drawings a sense of weight and volume, and are good for indicating things like muscle tone and the fall of light.