Produce the Body
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 by Pat
My human figures from the life drawing sessions are starting to look less like androgenous sacks of potatoes. Here are some sketches from Tuesday night:
Lately I’ve been trying to start my sketches on grey backgrounds for the 5 to 20 minute poses since that seems to be the popular method for more traditional mediums. It gives me a lot more flexibility and depth since I can add highlights as well as shadows.
Alias Autodesk Sketchbook Pro is what I’ve been using and it works amazingly well for sketching but it isn’t very graceful when it comes to navigating your page or editing. I’ve been using the airbrush tool for shading but I’m thinking of switching to something a little chunkier or giving Art Rage a spin.
If I zoom out beyond 100% in Photoshop I start getting lines that look like something from turtle graphics so I pretty much just use it to color or edit and rarely use it for sketching.
By the way.. “Produce the Body” is a reference to Habeas Corpus. It means you have the right to petition if you feel like you’ve been unlawfully detained. More than half of congress apparently thinks that’s a bad idea.