Got through muscle section of online figure drawing course. Wanted to draw muscles. I am better drawing back muscles. Got idea for this from one Cartoonist Kayfabe video. They were analyzing comic which had panel when guy walked to door way behind which was something supernatural. This is barbarian walking towards door to another world. It let me draw muscular character from back. Not planning to draw many of these in future. This celebrates me getting through muscle section of the course.
I thought I was using really dark colors but it didn’t turn out to be that dark. Maybe I should start to use black more. Idea was to have this door at the end of dark room. Picture benefitted greatly from last week’s experiments. Last week I learned a lot which I used this week. With planning black lines worked with this kind of coloring. Now last weeks picture feels even worse but it was useful experiment.
I am almost at the end of figure drawing course. Plan was to take face drawing course next but I think I will take another figure drawing course before it. Current course wasn’t exactly what I wanted. It spend way too much time on bones. Muscles were ok but face and action posing weren’t that good. Face was almost last section and only four minutes longer than pelvis section. Almost quarter of the time was spent drawing face from weird angle. If you wonder why I don’t draw faces reason is this course had face section at the end and it wasn’t that good to be honest. It basically told us to figure it out by ourselves after giving some basic tools. This was fourth course I took from same instructor. Others were better than this one.
I don’t say the course was complete waste of time but after watching almost 40 hours of videos and spending more time drawing based on those videos I should not have to take another figure drawing course just to have enough basics to draw what I want. Next course is figure drawing course which spends almost three times more time on head and more than few minutes on hands. Probably should have taken that first place rather than one I took. Don’t understand why course I took spend so much time on bones when that knowledge wasn’t used later to extent which justifies how much time it spent on them.