Boning Up On Drawing Bones - Some Delicate, Some Raw

I did like about fifty of these. When I slowed down I could perfect pretty well. Ended up forcing me to learn how to create delicate planes or raw through shading.

Bone head

I did like about fifty of these. When I slowed down I could perfect pretty well. They are copies where I am creating planes through shading.

Because there are so many little things. I advise anyone wants to really draw bodies, to start with a SINGLE bone and see if you can create planes using shading.

The thing I like about my digital drawings is that I reduce it to lines and blotches.

The shading is only there as a prop for color, egon does that.

I like making my girly digitals, free to be nudes, just bodies. Digitals I can whip off in two days and update as needed.

Pencil shading is for me a zen thing, even a week long “affair” with finding spaces on a body and graduations in strength, and direction, that is carefully built up to a full perspective using planes….

I find lines using smerch, using shading, and dig it into the page. First time I knew I could sculpt got my picture in the camp paper for my mouse.

And then nothing, mums didnt believe in it. Tho she showered herself in designer magazines about clothes and interior design…. Guess what happened.

I dont have as much time to draw now — as I have to work on novel while I have some interest in what I am doing with it. Tho I am testing paints for color theory…..'

Books books books

Favorite: Human Anatomy for Artists

Also a Favorite: Anatomy Lessons From the Great Masters Paperback

Artistic Anatomy: The Great French Classic on Artistic Anatomy

Atlas of Human Anatomy

Anatomy for the Artist Barcsay

When I started doing bodies at Art Students League, bought five anatomy books, and began to copy out bone by bone…

I found it very intriguing, language wise as well.

Feet

In gesture drawings have to manage feet from any direction. So I did feet from several directions —

As I began to go along, I start to concentrate on certain things in the drawing and use hatchwork in a fast way, first dibs I often go raw, so its not crisp, so much, as exploratory.

This of course is pulled through Photoshop and darkened into an inkster of a kind. Everything I do professionally comes through digital. So its a must know.

ARM + SHOULDER

Making it neat, slow down, keeping it soft and building up, like paint.

THESE TWO are new. I did these two, above here, last week. took me three days.

Joints are challenging. Especially working up the planes! But the separations can be outlined to help push over a bit into gesture drawing, which use outlines as separations.

JOINTS

HAND

Hands and feet are crazy, man crazy.

SKULL + NECK + EAR

Did several skulls.

The slower I went, the more time I spent, the neater the drawings ended up. To draw neatly, I had to build up slowly, tuning into the direction of every line. Drawing raw, could let that go, and build out planes much quicker, but half as neat.