Sunday, August 26, 2012

Dog Studies: 1 - 2 Minute Gesture Drawings


Below is a selection of quick gesture sketches of boxer dogs in motion, done in preparation for a project I'm working on. They were drawn from video reference, I spent about 1 - 2 minutes on each pose. I filled up lots of pages of these, but the ones below were the ones I liked best mainly because of the dynamic gestures. My goal was to draw the dog from as many angles as possible, performing as many actions as possible.



Medium: Ebony Pencil on Newsprint

The last part of the exercise involved doing simplified anatomical overlays using colored pencils & tracing paper. These are not clinical studies, it was about finding the basic bones and muscle groups.. 


Above: working out the skeleton.

Below: working on the muscles.

It was a great learning exercise.

PS: The older posts are all gone.

2 comments:

Brian said...

Hey Segun, nice drawings. Glad to see you posting again.

Segun said...

Thanks Brian.
There's more art coming this way