April & May have been all about simplifying the torso's skeleton.

Part of Proko's Anatomy of the Human Body course. Big, thorough, and rich with material.

Construction studies while working through Draw A Box. I remember these looking pretty intimidating with all of the different additional lines to measure out the form. Not as bad once you get into the groove. Nice to have some pattern matching, feels similar to programming, even! 🤘

Giving my +1 for Marco Bucci's Understanding & Painting The Head! Thorough without being bogged down in the weeds, classic Bucci teaching. Learned a lot from it!

Western music is founded on a phenomena in nature. Certain relationships between frequencies create a harmony, a certain sweetness, where there is little dissonance. Art seems to have a similar counterpart in composition through the Golden Ratio.

I've been having fun crawling through the One Perfect Shot Twitter account to find film screens of this composition principle in action. A few of my favorites below:

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Been listening to the City Pop gem Sunshower by Taeko Onuki

I got sick the other week and watched both Fantasias with Miranda. Unbelievably beautiful!

Halloweeeeeeeeen!! 🎃

The week in sketches!

Playing with more gesture studies 🦜

The week in sketches!

Braving the world of gestural figure drawing. And still wrangling the digital pen.

There's no love like the love between Pikachu and a Ketchup buttle...

Sketches from this week!

Went to Reef-a-palooza with my folks this last weekend! Like anime conventions, but for coral and clownfish (and there was a cosplayer!)

Started watching an MST3K classic — Cave Dwellers!

Still doing loads of gestures. This new-fangled digital pen takes some wrangling!

And, lastly, I'm braving my own album art illustration! This guy will be making an appearance:

I give one listen to the Jet Set Radio Soundtrack, and now I get some funny 90s hip hop inspired ditties in my recomendations. Not bad!

Been doing lots of gesture drawing digitally to help get used to the pen. It's a surprising jump from traditional to wacom!

Lastly, I'm sorry to say that Anthony Clark bore the horrible news: #Warioctober has arrived.

I've tried to escape it, but the punishment for skipping out is much more fowl than the ritual itself.