Words, Art & Science by Anthony Francis
More Goldman studies. Interesting how many fiddly bits there are in something as basic as the heel of the human foot, much less all the bones that make up the rest of it.
How much of this do you really need to know to draw? Conversely, how much does knowing this at a muscle-motion, stone-cold sketching level give you an invisible substructure that helps you get the shape of the outer structures correct?
Time will tell. Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Figure study from Wizard How to Draw. Gee, once you look closely ... superhero costumes sure are goofy, aren't they?
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
A comparison of hand and foot bones from Goldman. Interestingly, the big toe and thumb both seem to have lost one bone compared to the other fingers / toes. I wonder whether that happened as an evolutionary convergence, or whether they're controlled by the same homeobox or something and were both lost at the same time.
Did I get that word right? Huh, homeobox is the right concept. But, strangely, I remember last thinking about it in a place which I thought was a dream place - a road leading to a bookstore - but now I recall several visits to that bookstore, including a visit to a nearby mall to eat. Huh. I wonder if that was real.
Drawing (and reminiscing) every day.
-the Centaur
I know from experience how relieving it is to have a big buffer of artwork in my Drawing Every Day queue - I couldn't have gotten through GDC without it - but I also know it takes time.
More time than you expect; it was already getting dark by the time I finished this (compare with Day 97). Though, now that I think about it, I took a call with a potential sponsor for the Embodied AI Workshop, so I guess it is to be expected for it to get later if thirty minutes gets snapped out of drawing time like that.
Still ... drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Trying desperately to get ahead prior to the eclipse. More Goldman studies.
I really think these methodical studies help, and so does the mobile studio, but I also feel that a solid series of practice on ink rendering, also done in a larger format, would do me good as well.
Ah well. One (sub) project at a time, or even three at a time, but not five or ten.
Drawing Every Day.
-the Centaur
So I don't completely burn out on arms and legs, I'm building out my buffer with sketches based on a completely different anatomy book, which has very good planar breakdowns to help analyze shapes:
Well, I guess you can't see it well in that view because I put a clear plastic library-style cover over the book to protect it, but I also guess you'll start seeing more closeups from this book as we move forward, so you'll get the gist eventually.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
More Goldman studies. Starting to get the buffer built back up.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Out of time due to working on Camp Nano and lots of other stuff, so here's a quick sketch of Viv from Legends and Lattes. It was surprisingly hard to get the hands right without prior pencil sketches, so that's still an area I need to work on practicing.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
More Goldman studies. Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Super quick sketch of Cinnamon, as I was in food coma after Easter dinner, then had to write a long review for a journal - which I was already a day late on.
And, counting "a day late" as "missed a thing", I once again "missed a thing" because I was in a meeting which we decided to let run long. Which made the next meeting run long, and we extended it even longer. And because there wasn't a specific thing on my calendar for Saturday evening - it was just on my list of things to do in my todos - I said, "eh, let's let this go long and get this done."
And then something else didn't get done.
I've learned to watch out for this zealously, because for me, at least, going long on a meeting is a dangerous prescription for screwing up your next task. If you think you can go a bit longer ... what are you missing?
-the Centaur
Ran out of time to postprocess this due to prepping for Easter dinner.
Actually, I got kicked out of the library because Loki is already having his midnight snack prior to going to bed, and it is best not to (literally) open the door to another round of zoomies. The mobile studio to the rescue!
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
I have been doing a lot of art today, but mostly in Photoshop and Illustrator. Regularly scheduled drawing every day will resume tomorrow, or even tonight if I can finish up my other tasks.
Or, you know what? I have a test image right there. I could draw THAT.
Bam. On one of my "todo" pieces of paper sitting nearby. Take that, autistic inertia.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Pictured: a prototype of an Experimental Jetset Ampersand-style shirt, and a quick drawing of it.
Finished the arm section of Goldman, on to the legs.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Upon a closer inspection, that thumb was big even in the source image (see below), but still not as big as I drew it. So I had to draw it again. The tendons in the hand don't trace back properly on this one, but at least my poor drawing subject is not left with a throbbing thumb from some invisible hammer.
And, hey, guess what? The drawing table I set up in my office is really useful when I actually sit down to use it, rather than squeezing drawings in when I'm out and about.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Well, yes they are, but they're also the end of this section of the book. Legs are next.
Wow, that thumb looks like someone took a hammer to it.
Proportions need work.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
Gotta fly, here's a sketch.
Drawing Every Day.
-the Centaur
More Goldman studies. Please forgive the rushed, blurry shading: I had to both finish and photograph this in the near-dark of a single light at the hotel room's desk, as my wife already went to sleep after our long day.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
The transfer is poor because I took this picture in low light - since my smaller notebooks don't like to lay flat, and I didn't pack a scanner in my suitcase, I've been taking photographs rather than scanning my Drawing Every Day pieces, and cleaning them up as best as I can - and the source drawing itself is this kind of weird stack of overlapping images. But I think this drawing shows, more or less, the gist.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
SO! Apparently yesterday I went through the last of my Drawing Every Day 2024 buffer ... but I had time during a break between panels to do one drawing this week, and I've booked time for drawing tomorrow morning, so we will NOT be having a break in coverage today! More hands, by the way.
Drawing on average every day, posting every day that I can.
-the Centaur
Again from Goldman. Drawing (on average) every day, posting every day that I can.
-the Centaur
