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LifeDrawing Portfolio

Piece 1: Movement Studies with a rotating pose (20 mins each)

I am very much a beginner to life drawing and this is my first time putting together a portfolio of work that I am somewhat proud of. For this piece I was given a pose and chose to focus on the form of the model rather than the detail in their muscle structure. I chose to draw box forms in hope of understanding proportions and perspective better since those are some of the places I struggle in when drawing the human form. I made a few mistakes that could be fixed up on the future of in a future piece but this was a good stepping stone into understanding the human form as well as the shadows light can create around it, the model had one source of light that didn’t change like he did. Focusing on that light helped me to understand how light works, therefor helping me with my light studies for future characters I create/ draw.

Piece 2: light and shadow study with cloth background (20 min pose)

This piece is a single source light pose where we had to study the effects of a bright light bouncing of a dark, cloth background and onto the model. This pose really helped me with from and perspective when drawing models, the definition that the light created was a big feature to when it came to studying how the human form was built. I started this by drawing the models basic pose in a stick figure then started developing on the muscles structure, after getting the form down I moved onto the lighting and worked my way up, starting with the lighter shades and then moving on to the darkened tones as I saw fit. This process helped simplify the process of shading the body.

Piece 3: Light and dark study with cloth and prop clothing (20/25 min pose’s)

This was my first attempt with drawing draped clothes in class, we were given a base wizard costume and use the single source light. I was lucky with this piece since I had a nice perspective where the model had already created a triangle composition for me, I started with his base pose, a stick figure sitting on a chain and then started to add the layering of cloths where it was overlapping the skin of the model. I made sure I knew were all the important parts of the model where beforehand so that I didn’t lose the position of the hands and feet as most of the arms and legs are covered by the drapery. Once the form of the model was drawn I focused on the shading, again starting with the light tones and slowly darkening what I thought was necessary, looking back at this piece I think I could have pushed the darker tones further and got a better result.

Piece 4: Shading and anatomy study (30 min pose)

I was given a standard pose where the model posed, wielding an axe and cape. For this piece I was given the option to do whatever study I wanted, I chose to start with a quick focus on the hand and try to get the dramatic lighting with the fingers. Something that I commonly told to me is that a lot of people struggle with drawing hands so I made sure to draw them when I can in hopes of improving my hand drawings, after the hand I chose to study the form of the model and really get the shadows in that the cape and the lighting created on the model. I started with getting the angles of the boxes right and then started to build his form using a basic structure pose that I had quickly drawn underneath. After I was happy with the box forms the lighting came quite easily, most being focused on one or two of each boxes faces, this study really helped me with understanding how to act around certain feature of the model being either behind or in front of another.

Piece 5: prop poses with perspective (15 min each)

Before this piece I had only worked with a base model where he would only pose with his own body. This pose, using a stepping latter was good practice to draw with a unique perspective, being lower than the model for once rather that his posing at eye level. My work process for this was stating with a base pose for both the model and framework of the ladder, I then worked in box forms to make sure that I found the right angles for things such as the chest and the pelvis, after getting those down I moved onto getting the body into a box form pose and with the extra time I started to work in some of the finer details in the models pose. I had a little bit of difficulty when started this as it was the first time that our model has worn shoes and I had gotten so use to him being bare foot that it tripped me up a little bit even though I wasn’t adding details in the feet.

Piece 6: back to back gesture drawings (18 poses, 1 min each)

These quick poses were to help me understand form and movement and expand my range of dramatic poses for future characters. For these poses we given 3 sets of poses, the first being poses where the model used his body to create dramatic forms, the second being combat poses using a sword and the third being tribal/ hunting poses. This wide range of poses helped me understand the balance of a character and make sure that when I am creating a pose for the character that I make sure that it actually works and would make sense. Doing these poses within the limited amount of time really pushed me on how fast I could push out content as I started with not being able to keep up with the timer and how after a good amount of practice can pretty much get the form down for every pose.

Piece 7: gesture pose with movement study (1 min each)

For this piece we were given a base pose and each minute the model slowly shifted into the next pose, we had to try draw each form with the subtle movements to simulate animation a character, the model started on the ground and made only short dramatic movements so that we could see the change in the form and understand how the body would situate itself when doing these actions. When doing this study, I struggled with keeping perspective as when the model would move I would start he drawing again and didn’t have the time to make sure that each pose was the same size, I thing this really lowered the quality of the piece but I think it is still worth showing the understanding behind the movement of the model.

Piece 8: gesture pose with dramatic posing (1 min each)

This study was a more intense study on forms with relations to different characters or scenes, each pose we had to identify what the pose looks like and link it to a scenario that we thought I t would suit. This study really helped with understanding from in the context of a character as it is really important to add a sense of personality to the character when you are deciding the different poses that that character would be in, depending on the situation. When finishing each piece, I followed the same process, starting from the ground plane and moving my way up, after finishing each pose I went back and did a study on the curves of each pose, to try understand what makes the pose a dramatic one and the importance of the influence on the forms of the character. Doing this study really helped me understand how someone can tell how a character feels just by identifying their body language.

Piece 9: light and shadow with upper body anatomy (30 min pose)

This was a long pose I was given where I had the option to study the models pose as a whole or go into a specific area and do an in-depth study on that, fortunate I had the additional time to somewhat do both. I first started with drawing the model in her whole form while resting on the couch, first getting the couch skeleton and the models form down and then moving on to the box and the proper proportions. Once I had given the basis to the character I made sure to give extra detail to things such as the hands and some of the chest area, I thought I needed more practice around the arm areas so I decided to give the character an additional set of arms so that I could explored the models form a bit more that juts the pose that was given. The second study that I did was on the models upper chest and heat area, where I moved to a different point in the class and started to draw her form the perspective where the couch blocked most of her form, I chose to do this because I noticed that I hadn’t really done any studies where the model wasn’t facing away from me, therefor having no practice on areas such as the upper back and neck area.

Piece 10: anatomy with a costume (20 min pose each)

Some of the areas that I notices I needed to work on more were the upper sides of the chest, lower half of the upper arm and the neck area so I made sure to study them, for this pose we had the model in a gladiator type costume that covered areas such as his shoulders and lower half. The first one I did was the under arm area where the character has his arm up holding a sword, ready for combat. I made use of this pose and got a good angle on the under arm areas where the light was showing off the back half of the muscle so that I could show the more dramatic extension of the muscle and use the light to show the dramatic form. The second piece was a pose where the model had pulled up a shield and used that the block most of the light coming from out single source, this really restricted the lighting and gave a good amount of detail around the neck area. I used this pose to take advantage of the lighting and focus on how the shadowing of the model effects the neck area specifically.

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