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Well, I seem to take a break in these challenges and then have to recommit.
I’m going to go at this again, but I’m going to modify my challenge. Since my surgery I’ve been really struggling to draw loosely and in a relaxed way again. So, while I still want to continue with my original challenge, I’m going to add loosening up as a goal. I’ll try to do more large gestures while still working in my sketchbook. For a while, at least, I’ll be posting some pretty rough sketches, (and probably not so many sketchbook drawings). I hope they’ll get less rough as I move forward in this.Here’s Day 45. More prisma sketches of tennis players.
Thanks David. Appreciate your comments and glad that you’re gearing up for another 100 day challenge. Your idea is awesome. I agree that there’s not enough sports in art. It’s such a fertile area too, and there’s an endless amount of images to sketch from thanks to all the sports now viewable on tv.
You asked about my resources, well, that’s one. I really enjoy sketching from tv. I’ve always been a movie nut and credit old movies for helping me to understand composition and design. I particularly like black and white film noir which is an incredible source of lighting and composition. I used to, and still do, freeze the films and do sketches of the scenes.
In a similar vein as your sports challenge, I like recording sports events then I do sketches of the athletes. Recently I’ve really been enjoying doing sketches of tennis players at the US Open and now the Australian Open. Tennis affords an amazing selection of male and female figures twisting, stretching and positively hammering the ball, often while suspended in mid air. In fact, I did warmups today of some tennis figures from the Australian Open. I’ll post those later.
In addition to this resource, I sketch from the figures on the NMA site, (a really amazing resource with a huge variety of models), the Croquis Cafe, and I do a lot of studies of masters like Daumier, Kley, Sargent, and Zorn as well as comic book artists.
Finally, yes, the second lady’s right leg is too long! I have a predisposition for over rendering and tweaking the heck out of my work so when I do warmups I make a point of trying not to be overly concerned about accuracy and proportion. I still try to get it right, of course, but I try to put the lines down, capture the gesture and move on. I know that later in the day I’ll be obsessing over proportions and accuracy in what I’m doing, so it seems healthy for me to have a period of just letting things flow. I’m sure you’ll see lots of those types of errors when I post my tennis warmup sketches.
Anyway, thanks again for the comments. Looking forward to seeing your sports sketches!Thanks Kevin. It’s Conte sticks 2B and 3B. Appreciate the comments. The right handed page is prismacolor.
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