Eviston Gestures (Volume & Structure)

After finishing Brent Eviston’s Gesture drawing for the third time, I’m working through his Volume & Structure for the second time. Volume is still a pretty abstract concept for me when it comes to drawing. I KNOW that people and everything has mass and volume. But actually putting that down on paper is something else.

I feel like I’m getting better in drawing certain areas of the body, while at the same time it’s tough to get everything together looking anatomically correct. I’m overthining some steps, rushing others.

Oftentimes I notice that my inital sketches are still too wide. Especially the ribcage.

Well I will continue with my gestures. Try to think before I put down my lines. Be aware and patient with every drawing, one step at a time.

Eviston Gesture Studies

I created a new category “random studies” because I’m still doing some other things at the side of my artist curriculum. So far I’ve mixed some gesture drawings into my draw a box posts and I didn’t like that a lot. So now I’ll collect my gestures for their own posts.

I’m working through Brent Eviston’s Gesture class for the third time, because it always gives me such a great insight to my studies. I feel like I’m finally understanding the neck-region for the first time ever. My own drawings still look awkward at times but their getting so much better!

Furthermore I feel like my draw a box studies help me to think more “3D”, something I’ve always struggled with in the past.

I also did some artist-studies of Goldentar’s charakters. I’ve linked their instagram account, it contains some nsfw drawings.

It was a nice challenge to only draw in ink. I tend to chicken-scratch too much, or drawing too many lines in general. I hope doing ink studies like those from time to time can help me.

Draw A Box – Organic Forms I

continuing the Draw a Box jorney !!

I was really looking forward to the organic form chapter. Finally drawing something else than just straight lines and boxes. Organic forms are still incredibly hard and those potato-forms were no joke either. Especially with those eclipses in them.

The texture part was challenging, I’m not that good with concentrating on studying things, so this is a good exercise for me 🙂 The “gradient” part of the exercise was really enjoyable though, it’s just neat to have some pretty patterns at the end I guess.

There is the 25-Texture challenge which you can do at the side once you reached this part of the exercises, I’ll see if I can squeeze that somewhere into my already full weekly schedule.

I did some gesture drawing on the side again, continuing my third run of Brent Eviston “Gesture”. My long-time goal are figures and characters, so I really need my regular exercise with those 🙂