Happy New Year, first of all! I hope you’ve all had a lovely time over the holidays!
I wanted to try something a little different today. Something that would maybe take me out of a comfort zone etc. I’ve always admired people who can draw humans! They’re so hard!! I guess it would get easier with more practice but argh! Anyway… I decided to not only try and draw something different but also stylise it differently too!
I got this book today…http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Human-Anatomy-Function-Movement/dp/0823024156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294284869&sr=8-1
It’s pretty cool. I looked through a lot of anatomy books but I found this one to be more useful than the others. (Hehe, Hobbycraft had a lovely big after christmas sale! 
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I find myself to be more of a visual learner so this book was great! It’s packed full of lots of info about how to draw specific areas like eyes, noses etc to full body figures. Like most anatomy books, it also has an in-depth explanation of how the muscles and bones all link into drawing.
So after having a little look into it… I started working through some stages, only using a brown palate…
I started with the shadows, building them up gradually to form the different areas…
I eventually finished all that with this… Obviously, it’s still not quite right…. Maybe I should have made the eyes smaller? She looks FAR too much like E.T’s wife, cousin or something…
After all the shading was down, I added a new layer on top to play around with what colours I wanted. I did originally want to go for a nicer kind of brown with yellows etc so it looked like it was on paper… but because of her bug eyes, this suited her better. I also added two texture layers to make it look like it was a little more traditional.
Can’t believe she looks like E.T.! Hmmmm…… Oh well… still working on it! Hehe!
Hope you’re all well! Thank you for reading even though this this is often useless and barely ever updated! I’m working on that too!
