Chris Padilla/Blog / Chris Learns to Draw
In 2022, I went from only having ever doodled as a kid to learning to draw. I had a blast and it really freed up the looseness in all of my creative practices (including software!) Here is my journey documented. You can read my reflection on Lessons From A Year of Drawing here and painting here. .
Abs Study
Studying abs! πͺβΎοΈ
Part of Proko's Anatomy of the Human Body course. Big, thorough, and rich with material.
Pec Study
Zeroed in on the pecs in June.
Part of Proko's Anatomy of the Human Body course. Big, thorough, and rich with material.
Torso Skeleton Study
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.
Constructing Everyday Objects
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! π€
Studying Planes of the Head
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!
Composition Studies
Having fun thumbnailing out film scenes as studies in composition.
Golden Ratio In Film
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:












