LP STUDY WK 15 Tonal plan and lay in

LP Study WK 14

LP Study WK 14 tonal pass

LP STUDY WK 14 Tonal Plan and Lay in

Just gonna have fun designing the shoulders :)

LP STUDY WK 13

LP STUDY WK 13 Tone pass

Almost done.  Most of my time was spent on designing the lay in.  Having a tonal plan really simplifies things and speeds things up.  If you see serratus muscles, lol it's a backwards scribbled 3

LP WK 13 Lay in and tonal plan

This is the most important stage of the drawing.  The lay-in.  If it falls apart here, then you're setting up for disaster.  This is where you do the bulk of your designing.  How can I simplify more?  What can I leave out? What's the emphasis?  What's the figure doing? etc..   Rendering is fairly easy once all the decisions are made.  The more I learn, the more I edit out.

Sterling Tian Week 7

This is at 5 hours.  I tried to simplify parts and emphasize some areas that I thought were interesting.

LP STUDY WK 12

Lightened a bit for printing

LP Study WK 12 Tonal Pass

LP STUDY WK 12 LAY IN and tonal plan

LP STUDY WK 11

Sterling Tian Week 7

This is 2.5 hours in.  I'm making up for a missing week with this one.  This time I'm going to take more breaks before I finish so I can catch things before I put in the final touches.

LP STUDY WK11 Tonal Pass

Minimal Rendering.  The face was designed with a few shapes.  No need to take the face further.  This is a study on how much you really don't need.  There's a lot of details but I'm editing them out.  One for elegance and second for visual fill in.  The audience will fill in the rest of the image.  Surprising how much you can get done with a few simplified shapes.

Sterling Tian Week 6 Finish

This is 5 hours.  I pulled back on the black to mimic the overcast lighting on the figure.  I think I pulled back a little too much at her legs. I'll definitely render in one hour chunks next time instead of rushing through it in 2.5.

Sterling Tian Week 6

This is 2.5 hours.  I made sure I was patient enough to get a solid lay-in.  I think I'm going to add tones the next time I work on this.

LP Study WK 11 Lay in and tonal plan

Really gonna simplify this one so my lay in will dictate
everything.  Gonna spend more time adjusting and designing my lay in.

MV Lay in

I'm still working out the lay in, trying to slow down and understanding the inner shapes, it's been really hard. 1 hour and a half, i need critics! thanks!

LP Study Wk 10

Sterling Tian Week 5

Tried to push planes and contrast on this one.

LP Study Wk 10 1st Tonal Pass

Now that I feel that the lay in is nailed down.  I can start adding tone.
I'm focusing more on the stuff in shadow so I'll be keeping the light side simple.
If I render both sides, the image will get busy.  It's a balance of simple and complex.

Sterling Tian Week 5 (2.5 hours)

This is 2.5 hours in.  I'm going at this with emphasis on planes and contrast.  I put an hour into the lay-in and I just couldn't take it anymore and threw down some tones.  I did a little rendering here and there, but I'm trying to keep that at a minimum for now.

I hope ya'll don't mind, but I'm going to do two long poses this week to make up for me not doing one last week.

 Criticism at this point of the process is highly appreciated!

LP Study WK 10 Lay in

Something I'm thinking about more now.  How muscles work together to create
natural rythms.  Muscle groups in the arms tend to go towards the head.
I'll probably spend more time on designing the lay in.  Here's the basic idea.
( Keep in mind that as I do this, I'm still making sure I make form notes.)

LP study WK 9

Sterling Tian Week 4 Finish

I'm lagging a little behind on these.  I'll get to work on another before the week ends.  Any criticism helps!  I feel like I'm loosing direction...

LP Study Wk 9 1st Tonal Pass

1st tonal pass.  Just modeling out now

LP Study Wk9 P1

Here's the Lay in and tonal plan.
I'm not rendering yet.  I want a good
overall drawing.  Just making little form notes here and
there.

AU week 1

Hi everyone this is my first post,I know I still have problems with some parts of the anatomy and proportion, looking forward to your critiques on how to improve :) I'm still not sure how you guys do your process especially for long pose, but I'm learning a lot looking back at the old posts :) I hope we can all help each other here, glad to be part of this group.

Sterling Tian Week 4

This is 1.5 hours in.  My work schedule has been wonky this week, so I'll be pumping the rest of this out tomorrow.  I'm still working on the lay-in.  I have a tonal plan, but it's on a hidden layer.  I'll post more soon!

LP Study WK 8

Calling it done.  4 hrs.  Gonna do some scapula studies.

LP Study Wk 8 P2

3hrs in . Adding more tones.  Since I had a battle plan, the rendering goes by quickly.  Now plotting out areas that are gonna get a little extra love/ a little rendering.
I'm gonna keep the far leg fairly obscured so it won;t compete with the leg in front and that hand is gonna get some rendering.
Pretty much finished.

AK long pose week1 prt 2

So I have redrawn my layin with your advices in mind and here it is, I changed the composition a bit, instead of an chair she sits on a bench now, has a better feel to me though.

Oh and how much time should I spend on a long pose study, 5 to 6 hours or does it depend on us?
Thanks for answering!

LP Study wk 8 PT 1

Here's my lay in.  I keep my lines thin and not too dark.  I left some of my constructions lines.  I usually erase em all out leaving only " notes " for myself.  I darkened the line work so you can see it better.  Remember patience is key.  I'll probably adjust a little bit on the drawing as I render but nothing big needs to be changed.

Started with a John Singer Sargent study, and followed it up with a photo ref study.

Do dino poses count?

LP Study Wk 7

For poses and so on

Hey ehm dunno if it's okay to post this here, but maybe some of you find it helpful  http://www.posemaniacs.com/page/2

And maybe I should try to use it more too ;)
So cheers and keep up your great work!

AK long pose study week1 prt1

So I do still have some problems with the perspective and the arms that's what I know what I have to work on.

Sterling TianWeek 3 Part 5

Spent most of the fifth hour playing with edges and fudging with values to strengthen the focal point.  For a little there, I actually felt like I had control of what I was doing!

Hi there! I was doing only lay in studies, 45 minutes each. 

I added a new one, maybe better? I've done thinking more about inner shapes.

Finally replaced my glitchy tablet!

Good solid face and good overall value.

This image looks like it's being done in parts.  The overall figure
doesn't seem resolved.  The body feels a little short.  The limbs don't feel like they have a strong gestural line relating them together.  Starts to feel like noodles.
Becareful of spot rendering.  I makes an image feel spotty and not unified as a whole..  Bring up the image as a whole unit.  All parts are brought up to a decent level of finish.  I can see where this is going because I've seen and done it at workshop when starting out countless times.  Face gets 4 hrs of attention and the body is just an add on.  This is actually a very inefficient way of drawing.  I try and keep my mind in the mode of traditional media even though it's digital.  We tend to be more careless because digital media is so forgiving.  This leads to bad starts/careless mistakes, and if done a couple of hundred times develops into a bad habit.  I would recommend spending more time resolving the drawing underneath and slowing down.  You'll actually get more done than if you went right into tone and rendering.  Looking at all the old masters, they did a lot of studies before the final image.  Although loose, they don't feel rushed.  Keep in mind back in those times paints cost money and mistakes were costly.  Made them work more carefully and mindfully.  I'd like to bring that mindset into digital media as well.

Cheers

Bryan

Sterling Tian Week 3 part 3

This is the third hour.  I started rendering, but I made sure to organize the three tones in the thumbnail before I started adding more tones.  I also tried to accentuate the gesture a little bit.  Any input is appreciated!