[COMPLETED] Joshua’s 100 Day Challenge: 1 Daily Drawing from Imagination

[Joshua Jacobo]

Day 15: developing these figures more.

[Zach]

Your poses are beautiful, maybe these aren’t the right words but they feel very powerful/meaningful, kind of biblical/god-like. It’s like watching a young “old” master develop his drawings!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Amazing poses! I wouldn’t know how to critique these amazing drawings but I would like to leave a suggestion. Since your drawing from imagination, I think it could be a bit more challenging to add reflective surfaces close to these poses such as mirrors, metals or ponds. It would be interesting to see the poses develop through those different angles and maybe even distortions

[Joshua Jacobo]

Day 16: I really want to push the illusion today that my imagination figures are real. Last night I did some figure drawing from reference and I made notes. What is it that makes something seem believable and why can’t those ideas be applied for imaginative drawing. Here is my attempt at it tonight.

 

[Joshua Jacobo]

Zach, thanks for saying so. Those guys are my heroes and if I can do something half as good at their worst drawing, I’ll die happy.

Andre, that’s a great idea. Maybe I could introduce multiple light sources as well. I know James Gurney will do that kind of thing in his imaginative illustrations.

The mirrors would be tough. I’d have to bust out some real perspective.🤔

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[Joshua Jacobo]

Some thoughts about where to take this before I sleep. The female figure leans against a rock. Perhaps one of those gnarled twisting trees that can grow through solid rock can burst out of the stone and come towards the viewer before turning away. I could use this to modify the overall shape of the group. Maybe a fourth figure can stand on the rock or at least have one leg on it. This figure would be above the horizon line. Maybe we see him from below as he grips onto the tree with one steadying hand and with the other reacts to the chaos unfolding. Like a fight spectator. The two men point towards the shining beloved figure not yet drawn but the reclining figure does not see her. This figure on the rock can similarly not see. So there are two who witness, one enthusiastically the other while torn between worlds and two who are blind, both out of obsession with the unfolding dramatics.

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[Joshua Jacobo]

Day 17: Moving figures around , drawing re drawing…

 

[Joshua Jacobo]

Day 18: I’m considering draping this character upon whom the main figure leans…

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[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

yeah i think that would look cool. maybe have it flowing behind the main figure as if it was being blown by the wind?

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[Joshua Jacobo]

Yeah, that would be cool. First I’m working out the figure:

Day 19:

[Daniel Daigle]

Absolutely killing it

[Tanisha]

Absolutely love this!

[Zach]

This is coming along beautifully!

[Paula B]

Awesome lighting! 😀

[Ramona]

The lighting is incredible in the last one! Really love how the darker part flows between the two figures, but yet one can sense a dramatic tension that sets the characters clearly apart. The gestures really tell a story, I’m amazed!

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