Jock strap boy

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Next assignment is to do a line drawing of this guy I affectionately call, Jock Strap Boy (for obvious reasons). This gets handed in with the Suzy and Henrietta drawings I did earlier. I decided to try my hand at a grid which is helping me to lay out the proportions better. After I finish the preliminary drawing, I'll put him on a light box and transfer him without the grid.


Even with all my griping I have to admit, drawing the human body is a fascinating challenge. And like anything else, the more I practice drawing the shapes and lines, the better I get at it.


I'm more intrigued by the female form if only because I have yet to come across one wearing a jock strap. And no, this is not a picture of me back in college posing for the yearbook.

Suzy Gridlock

After much deliberation and a bottle of scotch (okay, that's an exaggeration. I don't even like scotch!), I gridded my lady, Suzy. The grid is compliments of GridArt (after I bought their product, of course. Check out their website at http://gridart.com). And what I ended up deciding was to cut off the bottom 2 inches to make the 8x10 picture fit on 8x8 worth of space.

This morning, I set up the grid on my paper and lightly penciled in my lady. The lines are so light that the scanner couldn't even pick it up. So as I darken the lines, I'll post the results.

Thanks for bearing with me. Someday, we'll all look back on this and laugh... with a beer!

Patience!

In working with this assignment to draw the lady's head, I decided I would sketch out a grid first so I can be accurate (for the sake of the assignment and my own artistic perfectionism). So wouldn't ya know it... I used my full 30 minutes figuring out how to set up the stupid grid! And I'm not sure I set it up right. Time for patience. I'd rather start out with a proper set up than to find out half way through that I didn't.

So in the meantime, enjoy this head study I did some time ago...