Photoshop workshop 1

Today was the first of the photoshop workshops taught by Phil Hosking, this is my in class painting 

Hand observation 2- Update

I wanted to create the musculoskeletal system of the hand, I had some trouble finding the images I needed to know what this looked like, after a while of searching through:
Feher, Gyorgy, Anatomy drawing school: human, animal, comparative anatomy, Konemann, 2006, I found these two reference images

(page 104)

 (page 107)

and although these images were very useful i still needed more visual information to finish my drawing, this image from : 

http://qigongweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Hand-Massage-Points.jpg

was also what I needed

I'm not sure how precisely accurate my drawing is but this is my attempt

Hand observation 2

I drew my hand in a more interesting pose

to get an understanding of the palm side bone structure I used another reference image from:

Feher, Gyorgy, Anatomy drawing school : human, animal, comparative anatomy, Konemann, 2006

then my drawing

and the two drawings scanned together

Muscle structure to come next

Hand observation 1

I drew my hand

I then needed to find the skeletal structure of the human hand, so I googled it and found just what I was looking for from this site:

http://www.brazoria-county.com/sheriff/images/jpg/id/upper/hand.jpg

so now having the knowledge of this I drew the skeleton of my hand using tracing paper and adjusted the angle of the bones to the pose of my hand

then scanned my two drawings together to see how this looked

next I wanted to draw this pose with muscle, here is the reference image I used from :

Feher, Gyorgy, Anatomy drawing school : human, animal, comparative anatomy, Konemann, 2006

my hand showing muscle

then I scanned all three drawings in different combinations, e.g, bone+ muscle, skin+ muscle, bone+ skin+ muscle

LIfe Drawing Class 1

30 Minute pose, Faber-Castell Polychromos pastel 

3x 20 minute poses- had to select 3 sections, Faber-Castell Polychromos pastel

Research, sketches post 3

ok i dont think this method is working for me much, they are loose warmup sketches but they're not very accurate either. i shall post what i have done and the rest of the photos of my head then move onto working from a mirror.

oh dear

Research, sketches post 2

Ive taken some photos of my head, not very pretty but its good for what im using them for. Im getting some warmup pastel sketches to get a feel of my portrait.

more to come

research, sketches post 1

I've scanned some reference images from the book: Anatomy Drawing School- Andras Szunyoghy, Gyorgy Feher- Konemann.

Next, I found some x-rays of my scull from a couple of years ago- very useful in an anatomy project.

A few sketches using pastel to get into the groove :)