The explorations of an artloader.
I’m still trying to improve my anatomy drawing.
I’ve found that if I learn where muscles start and end, I feel more confident drawing them.
Here is a study of three of the muscles at the back of the shoulder: the Infraspinatus, Teres Minor and Teres Major.
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I’ve been studying anatomy all week. Now it’s time to see what I’ve actually learned. Here’s couple of pieces from straight out of my head.
May is my month for levelling up my anatomy skills so I’ve been trying out various art study techniques.
This technique involves doing a figure sketch from a photo and then afterwards, sketching in the skeleton. Where my memory get’s a bit patchy I go and look it up. The pelvis is always a bit tricky.
I’ve been doing a load of anatomy studies this week and to cement my learning, I’m designing a Dark Acolyte-Warrior Of Mymosule for my digital comic project.
He’s supposed to be an elite warrior type.
I’ve been studying the incredible art of Fenghua Zhong. One of the things that I’ve learned is that he uses multiple light sources in his scenes.
Here’s a female face study where I’ve attempted multiple light sources. A warmer light coming in from the left of the picture with a cooler light coming in from the right.
I’ve been getting in some digital painting practice on mountain landscapes as I’m planning to put together a picture of a dark temple on a mountain for the first panel of my digital comic.
Here’s the final outcome:
And here are some in progress shots:
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This is another dieselpunk evil temple for my digital comic project.
It took me ages to work out how to get the Blender array modifier to do a circular duplication for the horns around the inner roof section. I used an empty object but there were 2 secrets:
Anyway here is the result:
Another 3D model in Blender. This one is supposed to be an evil dieselpunk temple concept.
I’ve been looking into some architecture concepts for my digital comic project.
I quite like the look of dieselpunk architecture which has a lot of art-deco elements.
Here’s a few sketches:
Then to further develop my thoughts I did a 3D model in Blender: