[StylesDavis]

hi all!

2 weeks ago i started to study design with focus on illustration at the "fachhochschule m�nster" (www.fh-muenster.de/fb7). i don't know if this is the right institution for me to follow my more or less diffuse aims, but i got some kind of hope when i got to know that one of their ex-students named "stian dahlslett" who made his diploma little time ago is working on star wars episode III right now, designing the costumes... ( www.starwars.com/episode-ii/feature/ 20030204/indexp4.html)

but i am sure stian had a hard time with his "main professor" (my prof, too!), because he told us that he always tried to move stian in a different direction, criticising his style etc.
i think stian put on blinkers, trying not to get demotivated by this on-the-whole-conservative-style which you can find everywhere in the fachhochschule. but i try to keep open-minded and open-hearded for new influences i could perhaps learn to like.

but so far about my scepticism, let's get to my main reason and why i opened the thread...

last wednesday i started my first class on figure drawing. there was no real instructor, just a student who said things like "at first let's do some 3min-poses for warming up" or "now some 1-min-short poses; keep your focus on the whole and don't draw fingernails, kno' mean?"

i already gained some knowledge about lifedrawing, figure-drawing and all that, but i would like to ask you about some hints or any kind of mental preparation when it comes to life-drawing...?

i am asking this, because i have the problem that my constructed figures (the loomis-way) always look very similar to each other; when i start to do figures from head, my pencil nearly automaticly does all the things i learned from loomis or from my anatomy-book, but my lifedrawing-experiences seem to get not included. of course, these 3 hours figure drawing last wednesday weren't the first ones i draw from nature; i already spent time drawing people when i sit in the train, bus or in the cafe etc. but for some reason these experiences don't effect my from-head-pictures

maybe i just have to forget about loomis-stuff and draw thousands of hours from life to see progress... or maybe i must prepare myself mentally when it comes to life-drawing- but how? any ideas? if this is discussed somewhere else already it would be enough if someone could post the thread...

and of course i would like to get general criticism, to increase my draw-what-i-see-ability.

so here are my first drawing-class outputs in un-chronological order; it was like "me against the fast running clock"

ps.: next time i will post my life drawings in the lifedrawing-thread which already exists, but this time i had so much to say and to ask, so i wanted to open a seperate thread. excuse this, please...

3min (and a very few 7-minute-ones)






7min; i tried to couple a loomis-esque skeleton with the drawing on the left.








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[Heysoos]

Nice job. Some people have a real tough time doing quick gestural figure drawing because they are so used to just getting into the rendering. You seem to have gotten a pretty good start at it. You did, however, fall into a problem that most people have when they first start figure drawing which is cropping off parts of the anatomy, particularly the feet and hands. Try to get the whole body on there, even in the quick ones. you've done a good job of getting the angles and proportions right. Well done.

[StylesDavis]

thx heysoos...
yes, sometimes i wasn't too consequent in leaving out things like feet or hands, but i think drawing the haar or the "nipples" (hope that word is ok in english for what it should describe ) helps me to get some kind of orientation.
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