Attitude Poses: Kyndra’s Critique
Kyndra sent along two sheets of action poses for the first assignment (her sheet for critique is shown above). Overall her poses are strong and convey the attitudes described in the first assignment....
View ArticleAssignment 2 Critique: Kyndra
Last week I discussed the flour sack and how it can be used to convey the torso in action poses. I prepared an assignment for my apprentices to practice their skills; this week we’ll take a look at the...
View ArticleMentor Experiment: Week 3: Barry’s Critique
Above are my visual notes for Barry’s third assignment, focusing on body proportions. I think Barry did a solid job making the silhouettes for the characters read, by incorporating props to make the...
View ArticleMentor Experiment: Head Design
This week we’ll look at heads. Heads come in all shapes and sizes, it’s up to us to find a method to break the shape down into a basic form. Start with a primitive volumetric form, like a sphere, oval,...
View ArticleThe Mentor Experiment: Week 4: Kyndra’s Critique
Today we’ll look at Kyndra’s submission for the week. She did a really nice job with this exercise, starting off with exploring volumetric forms on the top. Next, she varied the eye-line height,...
View ArticleMentor Experiment: Week 5: Kyndra’s Critique: Hand and Arm Studies
A bit late on this critique, but above are Kyndra’s hand and arm drawings for this week’s assignment. Kyndra’s drawings are showing strong volume and the hands are expressive and give us a clear sense...
View ArticleMentor Experiment: Leg Studies Critique
For those of you who were wondering, the Mentor Experiment took a brief detour last week in light of my preparation for Megacon. This week we look at Barry and Kyndra’s leg studies assignment. I’m...
View ArticleThe Mentor Experiment: Silhouettes: Kyndra’s Critique
The focus for last week’s Mentor Experiment assignment was silhouette values. Up above are Kyndra’s submissions. Kyndra did a really nice job conveying the age and time period in her silhouette...
View ArticleVisually Brainstorming with Shapes
This is the first in a series of blog articles that I plan to write on visual brainstorming. As artists, there comes a time (many times actually) where you stare at a blank canvas in your sketchbook...
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