iSpecs

Gotta gear up the cool when summer comes around... These are not for seein', they're for bein' seen in!

Bridgman studies 2

Some quick hands, don'tchaknow? Loosely referenced from Bridgman again.

Troll from above

...but mostly random stuff. I'm tired, again.

Scraps

Look closely. This is what tends to happen when I really really don't know what to draw. The woman doesn't actually count since I drew her yesterday... The swirly blobby shapes constitute "raw flow" of hand sans head. Perhaps some day I'll be able to make something useful out of them.

Lineless

Blecki suggested that I do some value sketching without lines. This was doubtlessly not what he had in mind, but I left it for too late and had to rush something out before bed... Reincheck on that one.

Biker

Racer style. Rear view. Do you see it? Late night drowsy scribble. I had no idea what it would be until I had already drawn half.

Constructing some heads

The topic of methodical head construction came up earlier today. Figured I might as well do some of that. I can't say it went very well... Started with some basic layouts for side and front view, then a reasonably successful 3D attempt (upper right). The next one after that (below) was really weird though - it started out pretty nice as a seen-from-below view, but the more I worked on it the more I gradually changed it into a level view... No doubt because that's what I'm used to drawing, and my eyes kept telling me that various details should approach that template to look good. I think I need to simplify this a lot more, and draw a very crude sphere+cylinder with a few lines on it before I start considering it as being a head. Weird perspective issues are best handled with an abstract model, while making it look like a natural face is something better left for later when all the keypoints have been established beyond doubt... Tricky.

Random figures

Not particularly inspired today. Starting to feel that I should practise constructing human bodies in 3D. One idea I had was to learn some specific superhero costume/figure and draw that one from memory in various angles. I sort of scribbled something resembling He-Man there, but needs more effort and reference to be useful. The main thing I often have trouble with is connecting upper torso and pelvis/legs. The stomach and lower spine are very flexible gizmos.

Less random

...as in fewer instances of random. Still no particular inspiration or effort. I've drawn a million pages like this. Every bit of repetition does its own little part I suppose, but I'm still not happy with the look or consistency of my "generic female faces", so I probably need to do more focused studies than just sporadic free attempts and the occasional referenced angle that may or may not correspond to what I'm trying to grasp. Repeated fail is still fail.
I also scribbled some thoughts/queries regarding bat wings. I need to look up their anatomy once and for all, for those situations where you really want to fart out some kind of flying monster.

Randomized

Yeah... nothing sensible. Heads in profile are always fun though, can't go wrong with those.

Wheel studies etc

Not much of a "real" sketch tonight. Mainly did some thinking on wheel/rim construction to help me when drawing cars. They're mostly a set of layered cylinders, but spokes can be kind of confusing at times, bending through the depth axis of the wheel. Drawing on a slightly larger-than-thumbnail scale would no doubt help here...
Also, some weird concepts of frog creatures crept in on the same page.