DD #248: hank's odyssey 01

DD #145: 'Barukalek' 02

DD #93: girls

Dear Girls, I'm sorry for neglecting your beauty in the last weeks and today I prove here that the femme is still 'fatale'. The first ones I sketched without reference and then I visited good old Posemaniacs for checking my process since my last PM session. I think since I saw the Mentler studies my refless girls are quite graceful.

DD #91: Free Poses

No concept, no initial thoughts. Again, I started with bubbles ... and human figures turned out!

DD #60: Dooodle

take a pencil, lay some sheets on the table, stand upright
... and ...
freak out!

DD #25: Start to Bambooo 09

I think I'm short before syncronizing my pencil skills to the Bamboo, it's quite intuitive already! I'm surprised how quick me and my Bamboo became friends :]
This means I can get back to my "main quests" like human anatomy and the personal stroke / style. For optimizing my props understanding I started today with abstracting basic shapes and composition lines from the poses of posemaniacs to construct a pose with working believable overall props. I think I should study shading for more plastic appearance next time.

DD #24: Start to Bambooo 08

So here we come to the human body. First we take some loads of quick glances.
(120 30Sec Poses)

DD #21: Sunday Special

By having no chance to get in touch with my Bamboo today I decided to run a new round of "Sunday Special". Our special guest today is multiple: first I found the great da-vinci-like thread by Michael Mentler on conceptart.org and studied his hand bones studies (1, 2) (very useful: the 3-to-3 grid!), then I started to train figure blocking on posemaniacs and last I tried some basic real still life studies. At least 4 hours pencil work - I felt pale gleams of perfection running through my veines.
Am I obsessed?

DD #15: Dooodle

Since Nightwatch sucks all energy out of you and one is always surrounded by fellows this day's output was quite lousy, quick and dirty. My apologies, that's not THE way.

DD #12: Focus on Hands 03

Nightwath 1 / 3.
ska-doodle!

Second Image:
My Reference was the "Blonde", a sketch by Phil Noto (via avon t.), a great master of fine and comic arts. Looking up to the pearls of his mastery I decided to try and copy the pose, with all its beauty, personality and uniqueness. Of course I missed all those virtues by messing up the face and, at first, the whole pose. The difficulty laid in the optical enlargement on the medium, which twisted proportions in some parts in relation to each other. At the second try I just scribbled the figure as I saw it - and it worked (better). So the experiment resulted in the cognition of my lack of figurative intuition -> more posemaniacs sessions!

And anyway, isn't she just beautiful?

DD #11: Focus on Hands 02

Phew ... any more words are not worth these results from live reference (my own left hand)
(I was on the train and had good gauge left in my veines from yesterday's night)

DD #10: Focus on Hands 01

Yes, right, today I haven chosen the supreme drawing discipline: hands. They are tricky, they are transforming, they are just brilliant. I found a sketch from 2001 (!) drawing my dad's hands on some ski vacation, it's the last one below. I wonder if I made any progress from then to now :P
To do it right, I picked my old Loomis 'Head & Hands' Edition to try and copy the depicted hand construction ways (from p120). There's still a lot of work to do.

DD #7: Goood Day

Hi fellas.
This time I drank some liquid brain enhancements *g* and sketched like a damn pirate paddling for his life! The 30 Secs are really good Basic Lessons.
Note: Need to check general props by base bodies.

// 140x 30 SECS (PM): ~70 Min. + special pose // DIN A4 // Pencil HB

DD #5: The Pricky Pen

... and the experimental odysee goes on! Today: Black Ink Pen, first speedy on 30 Secs, than fine outline tests. Pens are awesome.

// 35x 30 SECS + 3x 180 SECS (PM): ~45 Min. // DIN A4 // Ink

DD #4: Pose Turntable!

This time I tried to capture each pose from different perspectives - everytime searching for aesthetical figures. I guess I learned something about the volume of a body and the female hips *g*. Incredible Anatomy!

// 48x ~70 SECS (PM): 60 Min. // DIN A4 // Fineliner 0.4

DD #3: Upgrate To 60

On real paper drawing is much more intuitive, so this week will be drawn with pencil and such stuff. I upgraded to 60 Secs to regain the relaxing native effect of sketching afterworks! - and see what difference!
This Time 70 Times the 60 Seconds Round - over one hour! What geek i'm growing to be.
// 70x 60 SECS (PM): 70 Min. // DIN A4 // Fineliner 0.4

DD #2: Fast Pencil!

Posemaniacs 30 Secs Sketches by Pencil (later by biro)

DD #1: Fast Sketching!

This is the officially first Daily Doodle!

I started the "grand race for godlike drawing skills" by testing my new beginner's graphic tablet called "Bamboo" (by Wacom) on the well known Posemaniacs lesson: sketching one human pose per 30 seconds - 57 times today. The speed and quick success is addictive!
This fast sketching discipline is used to teach you general human proportions and to find a quick and accurate stroke. A good stroke is everything!

Tomorrow I will do the same "lesson" by using a real pencil. Just to see if it makes a difference, maybe I need to fix on one or another media.

This week's Daily Doodle Theme will be: Daily Experiments on Techniques and Lessons.
(aiming at finding the right way through the grand race)

// 57 x 30 SECS (PM): 32 Min. // PS_A5-200dpi // hbrush:4pt