I try to throw in a creative activity every day, sometimes its guitar, sometimes its drawing, sometimes both. I started trying and learning to draw a few years ago but now that I have the time and inclination again I subscribe to 21draw.com. This is because the artist Mark Kistler whose excellent “You can draw in 30 Days” gave me immediate joy and techniques when I tried last time there are many series of 21 Draw. I started that and will come back to it, but I’m very interested in @Rodgon and his learning to draw anatomy in 21 days class. This class brought me immediate revelations, obviously, but of course they don’t if you don’t know them. I tried doodling the Tai Chi movements as a way of meditating and understanding them. I look at them as “pictures” in my head and try the outline view, a draw of what you see up close. With this course it is about learning to attract people from the inside to the outside, to consider the connecting points and rotation of the joints and stretch of the muscle groups. Tai Chi is more about the inside than the outside, when I use 3d models of game engines with kinematics and bones and so on. boom ! A ping of enlightenment and a course that helps. This is one of many but you have to start somewhere.
Not only was this an enlightening idea for me, but I also realized that just as I had spent years learning martial art techniques I needed to treat these other life skills the same way, one step at a time. Every little basic practice is as important as any fancy stuff. There are no easy fixes or paths to anything, but there are ways to find things that help and facilitate the right kind of learning. Learning things should be fun, even if difficult and challenging. This is not a case of no pain and no cure. Anyway.. on with the learning.
The course starts with very basic shapes, connecting circles to cylinders, turning the circles into spheres with a space and volume to consider. Connecting the points on either side of a sphere forms the basis of Rodgon’s approach to all parts of the body, but starting with the heads 🙂
Before you know it you are exploring the positions and shapes of the head and neck and it feels good.
Body poses and more complex shapes soon begin to appear.
These are all sketches and scrappy lines but learning like his outer edge first inner mantra for volume when drawing arms and legs, combined with overlapping shapes is really impressive. I look forward to using this and other drawing techniques I learned from the how to draw manga book, and Mark Kistler’s shading and styles to do some things that will help me learn more about Tai Chi and also storyboard my books. There are more than 21 drawing courses to do as well.
I play with pencil and paper and also Procreate on the IPad.
It’s strange that after the AI ​​generation capability that I have, I feel the need to continue this person and learn the craft, the art. I might just stick to these basics, but every time I doodle something there’s a learning opportunity. Practice makes perfect 🙂
The Flickr album of my scrawls in this anatomy course is here
https://www.flickr.com/gp/epredator/3Tk65bdP53
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