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Good Monday Morning.
Doug asked me to fill in for him on this R&D this week as he had some things come up that were going to make it difficult.
I have posted a torso of Ray for this assignment. As Research & Development goes this time around we will be doing R&D not only with the figure but with technique as well.
Let's start with the figure; here we have a pose that is well lit from the side. The light allows us to see the musculature really well, and given that Ray is as lean as he is it should be easy for us to observe and understand what is happening enough to make this a very effective anatomical study. As the original file suggests this is a tightly cropped image and is thus it is close up enough that we can see all the detail that we might need to see. Oh and, thanks Ray.... nice pose to be sure.
Now, the technique; I would like us to go back to our pencil box. Find your favorite hardness of lead, and get your pencil sharpener by your side. We are going to do some cross-hatching. I would like to see if you can pick a spot on the figure and start working your way out from that spot... I won't hold anything against you if you feel like you need to lightly sketch the whole compostion out first, but see if you can't build this one up only by layering your cross-hatching over and over till the dark areas are as you want them...
You might think of the approach to this as you might do an inked stiple drawing.... adding the strokes so minutely that there is really no way that you can put them in the wrong place... wait till you are nearer completion before you start to add your really bold strokes.
I would consider using an HB or a 2B lead... keep the lead sharp so as to maintain to crisp lines. As you work, some smudging from your hand will be unavoid able but for the most part lets let the lines that make up the cross-hatching to the shading by themselves.
This drawing is due on the 25th of March.
Let's Draw!!
...royce
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