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Day 20:  A bit more short pose (with sloppy tone) and a quick study comparing different sketch starting techniques.

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Day 18 and 19: Took a break from the digital painting work to do a couple of gesture and anatomy studies. Line quality and value control with sketching in Procreate continues to be a work in progress.

 

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Day 16 and 17: Refined shadows and background, integrated light shapes, and continued modeling. Developed a second set of color studies.

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Day 15: A bit more refinement of the lower torso and legs of the grisaille. Next step is to refine “the whole” further and make sure the gesture is clear.

 

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Day 14: More grisaille, focusing on face, neck and chest. Pushing on next to less detailed rendering of the lower torso and legs and starting color studies.

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Day 12 and 13. Somewhat limited progress due to some travel and family commitments, but began a grisaille for Digital Figure Painting. Concentrated on modeling the hands and arms; next up face and chest.

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Day 11. Spent a fair bit of time on work for the Character Design class (not really anatomy related), but moved this construction study for the Digital Figure Painting class assignment along. Feel pretty good about the upper part of the body, but am still struggling to get the pelvic area right. Also, line quality in Procreate is still a work in progress.

 

 

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Day 10. Ended up cleaning up some work from the Anatomy Master Class for submission. Skeleton assignment:

 

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Day 9: More work on the weekly assignment for the Digital Figure Painting Techniques. Roughed out a few potential compositions and story ideas, chose one and built out a lo-fi two- and three- value study. Took the time to redraw the reference figure with a focus on gesture and then created a mannequin. Refined the mannequin with a focus on rhythms, anatomy, wedging/locking and overlaps. Still really unhappy with my line quality in procreate. Will post a progress shot tomorrow.

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Day 8, a long day of traveling, but have squeezed in some work deconstructing and analyzing the weekly assignment for Digital Figure Painting Techniques.

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Day 7. First cut at the figure drawing assignment done in class for Digital Figure Painting Techniques with Iliya, using Rebelle.

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If I’m not mistaken, he mentioned that he used the gouache brush from Kyle’s brush set, which can be downloaded free from Adobe here: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/brushes.html

He also has distributed several brushes that he uses as part of his last digital painting class, including what is likely the same gouache flat and round, here. You can find those on the reference tab here: https://www.nma.art/videolessons/digital-portraits-after-the-masters-week-1/?course=1490223

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Corrected study from Day 6.

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Day 6. Began a comparison between proportions used by Bammes versus NMA instructors. Quick head study from Bammes using his method. Still having problems with Procreate settings, which are limiting my value control and line quality, but these weren’t the point of the study.

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Day 5. Received my copy of Bammes’ The Complete Guide to Anatomy for Artists & Illustrators. Definitely a lot more comprehensive and descriptive than The Artist’s Guide to Human Anatomy. Read the first few chapters with a special focus on the proportions and began my next study. More to come tomorrow.

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