"Cadaver Workshop" or "Real Live Dead People!"

I am fortunate to go to a school that was able to set up a workshop using cadavers. I wasn't really sure how I would take the experience. When I was younger I couldn't even walk into a cemetary without freaking out. Actually walking into the room and seeing how many wrapped up bodies and tables there were actually did make me a little dizzy but we only focused on two that they said they had been using for about 10-15 years. They pretty much just dived right into it then. The whole thing was from 9:30-11 which in the end didn't end up being enough time and they said we couldn't stay for the afternoon group. That's why there's really only four rough drawings.

They said we could poke around and move anything we wanted to get a better look at stuff. I touched a tendon in the thigh. It felt rude to poke at someones insides though dead they may be. And freakin I never realized the heart was so HUGE.
Take care of your hearts people. The guy said he gets bored with the normal ways of dissecting sometimes so he does different things. The one had a had a slice out of the top of the head and half of the brain was left in. It was crazy because you could see the inside curve of the eye socket. So it was almost like an old action figure were you could look in the back of his head and see what he was seeing. You can sorta see a thumbnail on its side in the picture with the face. Trippy.

Overall the bodies were kind of mummy like so it wasn't a huge deal. There wasn't any real smell just the formaldehyde which I feel like I can still smell, would hit you in the face when you got close. I took the bus to get there and in the end I decided to walk the ten or so blocks back through the park and stuff while I can.

Anatomy

Anatomy class from earlier in the week.

Chiaroscuro

Working from a live person now. I'm happy with what I accomplished.

New

New Art Post

Work from today's class...

Smite Me Shirt

Theme

Anyone noticing a theme in the classwork this week?

New Anatomy Drawings

New Anatomy Drawings. I'm very happy with these. The lecture was all about muscles in the torso today. Unfortunately the successful ones I did of the male model don't look like anything unless you know what you're looking at so I didn't bother putting them up except for the first one on here. By the end of class I was getting hot and annoyed and the image I was doing wasn't turning out and he made us keep working on it. Finally I was fed up and started over my way for the last ten minutes of class. The guy wasn't fat but he's not skinny either so it's hard to find anything really visual to latch onto and say that's a cool looking line and I can replicate that. The girl however was a lot easier. I think it's because women are naturally curvy and to me that relates to cartooning very easily. So I surprised even myself with the last two (I think there was a piece of paper underneath the one that's why there's a line down her shoulder). Enjoy.

New Art

From class today. I am baffled by how amazing this can look with so little. My instructor came over and showed me how to start softening lines and I was dumbfounded.

JOHN CARTER OF MARS!!

I have to come up with a final project that demonstrates an understanding of anatomy...and that's pretty much where the stipulations end besides having to do with my major. I figured that I would borrow Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter Saga starting with "A Princess of Mars" for the assignment because most of the characters are nude throughout the novel anyway. Rather than doing a book cover scenario I figured if I'm going to be a comic artist I should do a comic page. So here's a compilation of sketches that I did for the mid point presentation to try and establish a look. Tars Tarkas still has a long way to go but it's just studies so whatever. Also yes it's true that Disney is doing a movie of the same name but I can't picture the guy they got as John Carter. He's too young looking...and pretty....bleh. As such my Carter (plus mutton chops) is loosely based on Michael Fassbender of "300" fame. He's got that particular kind of handsome ugly going for him and I could totally see him being from the south and having fought in a war the way John Carter was supposed to have. Enjoy.

New From Class

Work from class today. Enjoy.

New Anatomy Musings

Well for not wanting to go to school today I actually ended up with some stuff that I'm ecstatic with. I can't tell you how happy these make me. The heads aren't huge or too small and the legs (exception maybe on the guy) are excellent. Enjoy.

Yep

Out of context it looks pretty good and the basic concepts are there I think. Coming a long slowly. In class though the whole thing was completely wrong and I was going to start over for the sixth time.

So yeah...When you have a teacher that's taking the time to teach you about light and shadow and building up layers of value, it really makes all the difference. Rather than someone walking in, crumpling up a piece of paper on a stool, putting a light on it and walking out for 2 hours out of the three you're supposed to be there. One story out of many...

Chevaleresse

This was something that I was entertaining a few weeks ago on the side. The idea was to create a female character whose journey to adulthood was as justified and interesting as a males and had the potential to be someone that a future daughter of mine might look up to. The knight aspect of it wouldn't be set in stone but it was just one of a bunch of different settings/time periods she could be set in to make the story interesting. It's still pretty rough and was really just a preliminary sketch but I'm happy with some aspects of it.

Shadows

A better version of "Behold: MAN!" and some shadowy practice stuff.