Some fab poses from @dimples today, great full figure poses with lots of foreshortened poses and great lighting.
Today I just did sketches on my tablet, deliberately trying to draw the same way as I do with pencil and paper but on the tablet. The two poses in the bottom left were the last two that I did, I think I'm starting to get into
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Yesterday I must have spent an hour or so noodling around with my tablet, fiddling with lots of details and trying to be specific about the colours I was using. When I go to Dr Sketchy's I won't have any poses longer than 15 minutes, so I need to get comfortable drawing on my tablet quicker than I have been doing!
So today when I
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Lovely set from @vayda and a great opportunity to play with my tablet again :P Dr Sketchy's is next weekend so I don't have long to get the hang of painting on the tablet! I lost the gesture but had fun struggling with the form... really struggled with the soft ambient lighting in this set, I much prefer thick shadows and bright highlights (much easier
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Fantastic poses from @phecda today; lovely curvy figure and beautifully lit so I decided to experiment a little bit with my new tablet again.
Since getting the tablet I have used it to do a few doodles in waiting rooms, but I need some practice doing figure studies with it as it's only another couple of weeks until I am gonna need to use it
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Only time for a quick one today, I'm afraid :'(
A real pity because the lighting in this set is gorgeous, with lots of interesting poses to choose from too. I could easily have spent a couple of hours studying some of these pics, great work from @euphemia and @thelabrat thanks to both :D
A great set today from @orion with some beautiful lighting which was a joy to study. What a classy lady :O
Today my new tablet arrived, so I used today's Sketch of the Set of the Day to have a play with my new toy!
It's not a posh one, it was only £50 from Amazon but it can just about run Sketchbook Pro. It doesn't have bluetooth so I can't get a stylus with pressure sensitivity so this means I have to be judicious about
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I used my brand new clutch pencil for the time time on these sketches, and found it to be quite good. I have been using wooden pencils for so long that it might take me a while to adjust. I really enjoyed todays set, @alissa photographed @rancor beautifully, which inspired me to spash some colours about a bit ;)
Struggled with this one :(
Having two different models posing together is challenging as it makes the measurements really important (so you don't end up with incongruities in scale between the two figures) and I don't like to spend too long measuring. I tend to be more intuitive which has a tendency to snowball minor errors into huge problems... and twice the number of limbs
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I can't be the only person who thinks that @mel and @gemmaedwardsuk are a match made in heaven? Two of my favourites creating this set, I was spoiled for choice with great poses to study.
I tried to squeeze in a little painting time to one of the doodles, but ran out of time before I could work on the bottom half of Mel's pose.
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