ORION
Western Constellation Doodle 2/88
I don’t know very much about this one, other than I find Orion more quickly than I do Ursa Major or Minor in the sky, due to the three stars in the ‘belt’ of his tunic. I’m sure that anyone who studies ancient Greek is in absolute tears of agony over the mishmash of Greek armor styles and weaponry I put on this heavenly hunter.
20 minute pose. Loved having to deal with crossed limbs.
Such an amazingly challenging pose! Wished it lasted longer.
Like I said, I really enjoyed all the challenges this model presented. I hardly ever had to deal with that much foreshortening and muscle tensions in school.
Apologies for the desmbodied legs. Focusing on only the lower body leaves not a whole lot of time for the upper body. Here I was thinking that I almost had the structure of the knees and ankles down…Think I still need to work on that.
Really trying to buckle down on how legs work. I think I did all right at the foreshortening on her upper leg. This was a five-minute study and I even got some shading in.
More life drawing! This week’s model had great poses, some I’d never even attempted before. This feels advantageous, to me, over a life-drawing course, as the models there generally choose easy-to-draw poses since everyone’s presumably learning for the first time.
Bilateral gynandromorphism: a really fancy way of saying “half male, half female”.This genetic anomaly is usually restricted to arthropods, but has been known to express itself in birds, as well. More interesting reading here.
Oh wow! Every time I see an asymmetrical animal I have to know more. I wonder what one looks like when in flight? Would this butterfly compensate for one wing being larger?
(Source: , via theanimalblog)
A much better marker piece, I really like how the warm and cool greys blend. :) Evil peacock is gonna smack you with his wing!
Friend lends me her Copic markers for a few hours. This started out as a raccoon being heroic, but then she requested it become a Tanuki (hence the balls), and then the red marker shading looked kinda like blood so now this raccoon is just bailing from the scene of the crime while in a fireman hat.
As you can see I have no idea how Copics work, but once told that they were like watercolors I got a better idea.
DELPHINUS
Western Constellation Doodle 1/88
The story behind this one is that Poseidon scared the ladies when he tried to talk to them, so he grabbed a dolphin and made the animal go talk to his latest crush instead. Later, Poseidon flung the dolphin into the sky for doing such a great job at getting him a wife, where it became a small and under-appreciated constellation: DELPHINUS.
