Episode 334 - body technique!
Aug 7, 2017
Let's get physical! let me hear your body technique! As a follow up to my newspost on Friday about figure drawing, we all got together to do a Quackcast about it, along with contributions in the form of comments from DDers on my newspost. Figure drawing is hard, it takes a lot of practise, but there are a lot of approaches you can take to improve like wire frame drawing, gestural sketches, geometric shapes, drawing shapes and silhouettes, using mirrors, photos, and copying what others have done to try and understand and improve your technique. We add our own insights and use silly accents to read out the contributions :) Gunwallace's theme for the week was for Cerintha: Classical, careful, creepy, The clarinet plods along methodically while the violin skips, leaps and dances, pure piano tones ring out like tinkling bells, sparkling with light and joy.
Topics and Show Notes
Topics and shownotes
Featured comic:
Sword Of Kings - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jul/25/featured-comic-sword-of-kings/
And
The Chicken Warrior - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/aug/01/featured-comic-the-chicken-warrior/
Figure Drawing newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/aug/02/figuring-it-out/
Our contributors:
MOrgan - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/MOrgan
KimLuster - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/KimLuster
Bravo1102 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/bravo1102
Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine
KAM - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/KAM
Udyr - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Udyr
Cdmalcolm1 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/cdmalcolm1
Albino Ginger - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Albino%20Ginger
Avart - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Avart
AmeliaP - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/AmeliaP
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/
Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Featured music:
Cerintha - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Cerintha/, by Cope, rated T.
Episode 117 - Figuring Out How to Draw
Mar 18, 2013
After Bravo1102 mysteriously vanished from his remote, smelly, shack in the wilderness, Banes and I were thrown back onto our own not inconsiderable resources in an attempt for a replacement topic! That was provided for us serendipitously by Skoolmunkee and her fantastic newspost about figure drawing! So Banes and I go into detail about the importance of drawing models from life and about some of the tricks of the trade- i.e. shorter poses tend to be more dynamic than the longer ones, and other helpful tips like using movies for reference as opposed to photos if you want to get better poses, scenes and see how clothes and fabrics work... The topic of this weeks Quackcast has inspired us to tackle more technical subjects, so next week: Photoshop!
