Started reading through and drawing from a Bridgman book. I'm not particularly familiar with anatomy and so on, and it seemed like an important skill to start picking up on. The book's intense. These are sketches i've done using the book's drawings as models. They vary at times, but usually i'm assuming Bridgman's drawings as my "subject."

Been a bit of a tumultuous week to boot, COVID in the household. I've had that weird pit-of-your-stomach anxiousness all week and i can't quite tell if it's from being sick, being worried about being sick / my sick family members, or cause i had to send a lot of cold emails in an attempt to get an apprenticeship (on which the jury is still out)

He uses a lot of weird verbiage when talking about things like movement and interlocking, passing/wedging, etc - but i think i'm understanding enough of it to get by. The only point that's confused me significantly so far has been controlling the proportions when "fleshing out" - so to speak - the cube-shape body that the book has me starting with. I keep ending up with weirdly thick figures that don't round out right.

The scanner app i used kinda sucks ass and also puts watermarks below the image, although they're on their own separate white footers so i just crop them. it's annoying, the fact that "Scanner Pro" requires "Scanner Pro Plus" to function properly. What is "pro" about a scanner with ads, I will never understand. There are no ads here, which kicks ass.

I get the feeling it will take a while for me to get the hang of anything past the above image's level of detail, especially the idea of the "shapes-into-form" mass distribution. I keep finding myself falling back on the principle that every body is a collection of 3d shapes in a weird skin sack, of sorts. I hope, given that this is maybe up to page 15, that by the end of this month i have cracked through about a third of the book and come to better understand how the shapes cause the skin and muscle to fold and stretch with the different poses.

I know this isn't "what is posted" on NewGrounds usually, which is why i made it as a Blog post instead of an Art post. I just thought it'd be interesting to upload, and especially to come back to as a marker of growth later in the month, year, etc. It seemed, to me, like more generative practice than drawing something fully formed. I'm doing lots of boarding and background stuff for my TOONAMI COLLAB piece all this week so it's been a nice break from that. Any notes/critiques on these is so welcome, i know full well they aren't near what they should be looking like yet.

-jack