First off, I received some great feedback from Dave on the Gryphon skeletons and also to further the assignment for next week by creating a muscle map on top of the skeleton (front and side views); paying attention to where the bone pushes through the muscle and can be seen through the skin, eg pelvis.
- Size of the skull with regards to how intelligent I want it to seem
- Wingspan to bulk of gryphon
- define wing bones/scapulae/clavicle -sternum from a front facing view
- begin to think of possible plumages and how the feathers join with the fur
- Tail variations, though a long tail presumably for balance.
- Movement; How would it walk/fly?
Next, Maggie took us for two hours of life drawing, similar to last week's class, with an hour of short fast poses and a final 50 minute costumed pose, with a focus on details and intricacies.
(click to enlarge)
Since we had much more time for the "long" pose, (50 mins), I decided to thumbnail it out and get the general angles and placement of the figure sorted before I dove in on the actual page.
Its scribbly and messy but it definitely helped me register the whole figure, not to mention solve a few problems early on, rather than having to fight it out at the larger scale.
(50 minute costumed pose)
As a change of pace, we then visited the
Maggi Cullen exhibition Constantine gallery in Middlesbrough Tower for an hour, with the instruction to pick some of the exhibits and draw from them.
"Morris Men" - Maggi Cullen
-Sam
