99 Drawings:100 Days

A summary of my expectations of the Schoolism caricature drawing class.

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Drawings shown in the video:

Barack Obama

Kiefer Sutherland

Angelina Jolie

Kanye West

I bought the Structure of Man dvds quite a while back and I thought it was time that I talked about them a little on my blog.  This is an anatomy drawing course developed by Riven Phoenix of AlienThink based in Texas.  The total running time of the 5 dvds is 43 hours.  Each video lesson has a duration of about 10-20 minutes.  I’m still working on disc 1.  In fact I’m still on the first few lessons.  A lot of the instructions is based on formulas of human proportions which are hundreds of years old, but they are very useful.  I suppose once you learn how the draw the different body parts using the formulas, you can gradually start integrating you own style into the drawings.  So far the lessons are helping me with proportions so I don’t draw too big for the page.  From what I’ve watched of the dvd series, I like it very much.  I have read on some forums that people think the videos are quite dull and boring, but I really enjoy them much better that just drawing figures from a book.  I usually draw along with the videos.  Then the next day I’ll try to draw everything again but without watching the videos.  After that I move on to the next lesson.  The entire set is only $45 dollars.  That’s a great deal when you consider you are getting 43 hours worth of videos.

Well here is my fourth Bargue drawing plate.  It was ears.  I am really looking forward to the next one which is a foot.  I am continually improving and am happy with my progress.

I really like perspective drawing and am trying to get good at it.  It is the foundation for so many aspects of drawing.  I am really interested in enviroment design, interiors, and exteriors so I’m going to have to get good at it.  In the past I had been searching for a good perspective book but many of them were a let down.  So I decided to try searching using the google book search and look for some free perspective drawing books.  Low and behold I found one by the name Drawing Simplified.  It was written in the late 1800s’ and is full of exercises.  I don’t know about everyone else but this book is just what I needed.  I love the fact that it is full of practice exercises to be done freehand.  I suggest using this perspective book before going out and buying one.  This one is free and can be downloaded in the pdf format.  After you finish this book, then you can decide if you need one of the newer books.  This is exactly what I am going to do.

-K

Well it’s time for the week in review. Sorry for the background noise in the video; I forgot to turn the heater off.