Pose sketches

I forgot to post these last week.

These are done from Croquis Cafe's videos, using Bryan Lee's techniques.
Also, these are from this week.

Steve Huston lecture 7

More Steve Huston studies. Connections and a bit of color theory.
The red sphere was added in Photoshop. Everything else is pencil on paper.

Steve Huston 6

Mini Steve Huston study regarding color and shadows.

Steve Huston lecture 5

More Steve Huston lecture notes.

Hands 5

Bam! All done.
All of these were done from various references, save for the last five: those are from imagination.
The hardest one was the thumbs-up one. :| Why u do dis?

Hands 4

One more. Si se puede!
Notice how they tend to get bigger with each upload?

Hands 3

I don't think I'll be able to complete 100 this week. I underestimated how long it takes me to draw one hand.
Oh well, at least I'm learning/practicing. :)
Gonna shoot for 50!

Hands 2

Hands are still a weakness of mine. This week, I'm gonna try and draw 100 hands.
For science.
Part 2.

Hands

Hands are still a weakness of mine. This week, I'm gonna try and draw 100 hands.
For science.

Steve Huston lecture 4

More from Steve Huston's lecture.
Gesture.

Long Pose 1

Done!
5 hours in Photoshop CS5.
Reference used

Long pose homework part 3

Halfway there.

Long pose homework part 2

Part 2.
It's actually an hour and 40 minutes (100) rather than 90. I just can't count. :|
Tweaked the positioning of her arms, revised the legs a bit. Spent most of my time working on the face. Added a valueish background to bring more focus to the face, too.

Long pose homework part 1

My first attempt at a long pose, as assigned by Bryan Lee.
This is 54 minutes in.

Steve Huston lecture 3

More from Steve Huston's lecture.

Steve Huston lecture notes

Recently ran across some of Steve Huston lecture videos, so I decided to follow them. These are my notes and practices from his first lecture.

Hands

Frickin' hands, man! What do they even do!?
Used my left hand as reference.

Sera

My wife asked me to sketch up a concept of one of her characters. These are the guidelines she gave me.
-Cliche archer gear
-Cliche mage staff
-Two knives
-Elf
-African
-Thin and tall
-Lithe-looking

...and here she is.
I might do a better sketch of her in the future

15 more minutes - Nykhor Paul

Another 15 minute sketch, this time of Nykhor Paul.
For this one, I actually spent more like 30 minutes, but that’s only because after 15 minutes, I decided I wanted to try and do the values, too, but then they came out looking crappy, so I scrapped them. Oh well.
Painter XI

15 minute sketch, again

Another 15 minute portrait warmup sketch/study, another unknown model. As before, if anyone knows who this is, do let me know.
Also, imagine that! I ended up making her face too wide...