Thursday, August 19, 2021

Better Action

 


This week I moved into the condo I bought with my parents and started graduate school. It's alright so far. Getting this condo was so much easier than it should have been, praise God. 

Recently, I watched a video where the guy used a certain concave octagon as the body shape for human action poses, and I tried it and really liked it. That technique has really helped me in making more dynamic action poses. 

Both of these are really sketchy drawings I did almost without erasing in class today. The top is of Ladybug from, of course, Miraculous Ladybug, and the bottom page has two drawings mostly inspired by a pose that can be seen in the film version of Alita: Battle Angel. Both, surprisingly, were done without references besides memory. I think my improvement with foreshadowing limbs and this new body form really helps. 

Moving into a new house has had its challenges. It seems like every day I mess up something else, but that's the growing experience I guess. It's an adventure. You fail and you learn, then you do it over again. God preserve me. Help me in this new time in my life. I need you for everything. God be with me.