2D Art Week 1: Life Drawing #1

This life drawing session was focused on a diagram of a basic skeleton and trying to show where bones show just under skin when drawing people. I have much to learn about anatomy, as I haven't really had any formal training in the fundamentals.

This was also my first time doing life drawing with a nude model. I don't think I've ever even drawn a naked person.

2D Art Week 1: Syd Mead Basic Shapes

Syd Mead is the concept artist best known for his work on Blade Runner, Aliens, and Tron.

Did you know that he also did mecha designs for Gundam?

Specifically ∀ Gundam?

The best* one! 

*(The only one I've watched I haven't gotten around to any others yet so I can't actually say which is the best don't @ me)



neat-o

So obviously I chose this one because mecha and orange lighting are my 
A E S T H E T I C

First, I isolated and sketched what I thought were the basic shapes of the figure.




Then, I brushed on a base color for the mech's silhouette, and progressively built up the shading on top of that. It was looking a little undefined after that, so I added some lines to sharpen it up.



I switched to blue!
for contrast?

I should have taken progress shots, but I didn't know we had to until it was done...

I don't have much experience with soft shading, but all things considered, I think this went pretty well.

2D Class Week 1 Syd Mead Board