Oh boy, due to personal stuff I've been forced to take a bit of down time from the blog. But fear not I have used this time to study anatomy by drawing lewds. Yes, lewds. I found out that I responded better to learning anatomy by drawing NSFW stuff since you know, it involves drawing body-parts.
Now if you are dirty minded as I am and want to see these drawings I have to say: Nah.
I might refine some of the more "tasteful"ones and post them since I don't actually care that much about how people perceive nudity and just question myself "How can you even take a shower if you are that afraid of the human body?" when these situations arise. However I may not be smart, but I am not stupid enough to not understand when stuff is not appropriate to share.
Also If you, the reader, are concerned about me leaning to much towards anime/manga style as of lately. I've explained why in this entry: the-missing-uppdate
And playing around with this for a while and consulting the books of one my current deities Loomis (Ernst Kirsteiger and Gordon Ramsay sits in the same pantheon just to give you a taste of who sits there). I've think I've figured out how to achieve that volume feeling that I am currently striving for. Basically painting and drawing consist of breaking down everything and make it as simple as possible and to do that we need to realize what the deciding rule is so we can bend it to our advantage. That rule is the paper itself, a flat thin surface regardless if you are painting digitally or in real life. The surface is always going to be flat.
Now when we now that, how can we use it to our advantage?
My current answer to this is since this is a flat surface, perspective and form becomes the most important tools that we can use to cheat this system as we can use just a simple line to illustrate a direction, therefore the lines must be placed carefully. I can evolve on this further another time.
Oh! The image is a sneak peak to a Halloween themed request someone made in a drawthread, so that's the reason why I cropped it.
And the Akira picture is getting a massive overhaul.
