Master Studies Challenge!
2mo
Christopher Corbell
I really dug doing the first Master Study in the Drawing Basics course, and also the master-study notan thumbnails. I've gone on to do more master studies at different levels - some fully rendered, some sections of study, some in charcoal, some in ink, and some simple thumbnail sketches to understand composition better.
Let's start a master studies challenge here! I'm going to try and post something every month.
No rules, other than learn something from an artist who inspires you! And "master" can include anyone, contemporary or ancient. Just a section of piece, or just one aspect, or a complete re-creation.
Ooh this is a good idea! I'm still stuck on my second personal project for April... which is looking more and more likely to wrap up a couple of weeks into May. But! For project number three, I intended to do a deep study on Al Williamson with this page in particular.
I currently have it printed out and taped to the back of some 11x17 sketch paper. I intend to put it on a light box and trace out the very basic forms (spheres, cubes, trapezoids and cones) and try to sketch inside of those primitive shapes to "faithfully" recreate the reference. (Big air quotes on faithfully... there is only so much of someone at my skill level can do!) Before Finally taping that to the back of bristol board and give it my best shot of inking the entire piece with my new brushes and trusty dip pens.
Hope to have something posted by June! Not sure how brutal part 2 of the perspective course will be but I've been enjoying saving my weekends on personal projects and think I will continue with that trend.
