Portrait studies

These self portraits proved a pain at some points to do because I'm quite self conscious so I was making sure I wasn't editing aspects of my face. I don' t think I did which I'm happy with but I'm not sure if they look fully like me. If we are talking proportions wise and things in the right place then I am very happy with the outcome.



Feet Studies

Well here are my feet studies! I'm actually very happy with them considering I'm not very keen on drawing feet because they seem to be the problem area that like to cause me annoyance with their shape. I'm especially happy with the first top view of my foot and the proportions and I tried to draw from a range of angles to challenge myself. Just the portraits left to finish!

Internal Structures

Below I have drawn a dog skeleton that is of similar appearance to the Komondor as well as the female human skeleton. I found this really useful as it helped me learn the structure of a dog more so I should bring across the dog in my final portrait with this in mind. Also, I can see key similarities and differences between the two skeletons that I could bring forward into my portrait.

I then took my drawings into Photoshop and created silhouettes with them. I think this was really effective as the silhouettes help me focus more on proportions and outer shape and size rather than the detail for parts such as the ribs. I'm going to use this silhouettes in another way though. I will be taking parts of them and combining them together to start the hybridisation and then connecting them properly so that it doesn't look like some unnatural skeleton.



Hand Studies

Well here are my studies of well.. my hand! Took me quite a while doing these as I was being very picky with getting proportions right especially foreshortening which I find likes to trick my eyes into making them see something completely wrong but HA you will not defeat me! I found Andrew Loomis' Heads and Hands as well as Figure Drawing For All It's Worth extremely useful for this exercise as he keeps things simple which I think has really helped with my outcomes.

I started off by drawing fingers from different angles to loosen up and get their tricky proportions right, I then started off my 1st hand observations with a basic flat hand pose which I am really pleased with especially proportion wise. After I experimented with diffent media such as biro and charcoal to see how this affected my drawings.

I am also really pleased with the fist type pose I did in charcoal. I like how the charcoal expresses the creases the clench of the fist makes. I also like my pointing pose as I think the foreshortening went quite well. I think there is something out of proportion in the middle drawing but am not sure quite what but other than that I'm happy with my outcomes.