Joshua的論壇貼

Thanks for the advice Darkover.

I drew these hands yesterday. I tried to draw the end of the palm as a curve (after I remembered your advice after I had started the hand in the top-left), but as most hands on the page were on an angle, it wasn't easy to do. If you look closely at the 2- and 5-minute hands on the bottom row, you hand see I rubbed out and redraw the end of the palm a few times to try and get the curve right.

On the 5-minute and the second 2-minute hand I also tried some foreshortening to make it look like the hands were at an angle, but they just ended up looking distorted.

Thanks for the video Darkover. I'll take a look at it on the weekend.

I did this page last night. I was imitating Plate 2 (on page 22) in this book.

I did some more figure drawings this morning.

Thanks for the link Ay. I did the plane-drawing exercise tonight.

Any with that I finished the last page of my sketchbook. I'll be starting on a new one tomorrow.

I did some more portrait-drawings today. I tried to start off by drawing spheres this time, like in the exercises I did yesterday.

I did some more hand-drawing exercises today.

Here are some more figure drawings. As usual, each section corresponds to 30-second, 1-minute, 2-minute, and 5-minute exercises respectively.

Here are some more hand drawings.

I attempted to imitate Plate 1 in Andrew Loomis' book here.

Here are today's figure drawings.

Here are today's hand drawings.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I did these portraits tonight.

I started off doing a 30-second exercise, and only remembered halfway through it that Ay.Spies advised me to do longer exercises. I did another 30-second exercise so it was a solid minute, and then did two five-minute exercises.

I just had a look through Andrew Loomis’ book (it's in the public domain, and so can be downloaded for free legally). How should I practise with it? Should I try to copy the plates?
I also found a book on figure drawing by the same author, which I will also have a look at.

I separated the foreshortening exercise and the figure-drawing exercise into two different pages.

On this page I drew the rough shape of a forearm in a rectangle in the top-left, and then tried to draw the same shape at various angles (either going into the page or coming out of it). Unfortunately it didn't turn out as I'd hoped.

Here are today's figure-drawing exercises.

Thanks Sanne! I tried to focus on that today.

Today's portraits.

Thanks for the link Sanne!

One thing I'm noticing looking at the examples (particularly at the rectangles in the "Receding Plane Technique" section) in that link is that the sharper the angle of a long 3D object (e.g. an arm) towards the paper, the closer the vanishing point is to the end of the object. I know from perspective that lines that are parallel to each other but not to the paper converge on a vanishing point (although I've never thought to apply this to my figure drawings). One thing that struck me looking at the examples is that the vanishing point for a limb is only a little above or below the end of the limb when the limb is at a sharp angle to the viewer, while the vanishing point is further from the end of the limb when the limb is viewed from straight on. I've also noticed that vanishing point is also 'behind' the object (if the artist is in 'front' of the page) regardless of the orientation of the object.

In my next figure drawings I'm going to try to locate and mark the vanishing point of each limb. This might be difficult because, looking at the examples on that page, the edges of the limb can appear to converge an a vanishing point when in reality the end of the limb really is thinner than the other end due to the shape of that limb e.g. if you look at the arm in the "Receding Plane Technique" section or the upper legs of the figure at the end of the "Size, Overlapping Shapes, and Surfaces" section, the ends of those limbs appear to converge in the opposite direction of where the vanishing point really is due to the shape of the arm/leg.

I just realise that this is essentially the receding plane technique in reverse - instead of finding where the vanishing point is by first sketching a trapezoid, this is finding where the trapezoid would be by first locating the vanishing point.