This page links to my scribblings and sketches, both fast-and-dirty and slow-and-careful. I use both pencil as well as Wacom tablets to draw.
Currently, also doing 1-2 weekly drawing sessions at work, focusing mainly on figure drawing.
The session topics covered so far are :
Session #1
- Warmup -- Exercise
- The "Before" Drawing -- Exercise
- Upgrading your Symbols -- Explanation
- Poses -- Stick Figures as Guides -- Exercise
- Upgrading your Stick Figure -- Demonstration
- Posing your upgraded Stick Figure -- Exercise
- Advantages and Disadvantages of using Stick Figures -- Explanation
Session #2
- Proportion and the Basic Unit
- Observe and Reduce - deducing pose from a model
- Relative importance of symbols in posing
- Single stroke gestures - dissolving rigid poses
- Inventing poses in the plane of the paper
- Upgrading the mass symbol - the Blob, its use in depicting foreshortening
- Bonus Feature: Eyes
Session #3
- Warm-up: Are you posing better than you started?
- Observe and Reduce
- Injecting life: Important landmarks in the human figure
- The Human Face: Upgrading your symbols
- Tuning parameters of the facial system
Session #4 (Upcoming)
- Solids from different angles
- Introduction to perspective : 1,2,3 - point perspective
- Review - Basic planes of the head
- Filling in the details
- Eyes
- Nose
- Mouth
- Features from different angles
- Eyes
- Nose
- Mouth
