Day 4 of Four New Pics a Day!

Hmm, a lot of animals recently, isn't there? Much as I enjoy drawing humans, there's more freedom in drawing an animal, in that there's less pressure to make it look 'right', whatever that means in the human context. More room to play with things like foreshortening, strange poses and textures not found with most human forms.

Enjoy!


13b) Flower Circle



Continuing to explore the idea of using a darker background to enhance the lighter shapes and shades. Trying to make this pop off the page a bit, glow - it'll be interesting to see if I can get the same effect with color, rather than graphite.

14b) Another Hand



It's been awhile since I've drawn my left hand, I've forgotten how fun it is - expect to see more of them.

15b) Leaping Deer



IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR YOU WATCH OUT

Heh, this was fun to draw, really exagerating the foreshortening. I thought about blurring/rubbing out the latter 1/3 or 1/4 to give a greater sense of depth and movement, but decided against doing so, for this.

Do you think it worked, or did I just end up drawing a horribly mutilated deer?

16b) Stalking Bear



A bear. Worked on emphasizing his bulk, roundness, strength - still working on getting a handle on non-human anatomy. Frustrating, sometimes, but in strange ways that just make me happily stubborn to do more of them. It really does work to mentally split 4-legged animals into three 'pieces' - hindquarders, middle, and front. Once thoes relationships are laid out accuratly, the details can be put in, following those thirds.