Somehow

pacing pose

This pose is one of the earlier pictures that I had seen that made me keen to learn how to draw the human figure.

It is found in a certain japanese fashion illustration book which my aunt had bought (now lost).I managed to borrow it from her, and learn the structure for drawing it.

The book is very helpful, it showed photographs on the process how the drawing is done step by step till the finishing (coloring) and the techniques at coloring told in details.

I did not grab the esscence even though I had been trying hard, I knew I lack some knowledge about drawing poses which seem to me that it comes so natural for the artist of the book.

I went off to buy some comics illustration books (How to draw Manga) and learn off from the basics.Yes, the line of center gravity is the key to all drawing, which makes your drawing don't look like floating or awkwardly unbalanced.

Furthermore, I don't like the fashion book skeletal guildlines, they emphasized more on having a V shaped body, while the japanese prefer the OVAL shaped body. I somehow like to have an distorted oval, a V-shaped oval to be exact.

Thus, I combined the knowledge of both and applied them at my drawing. The result was to my liking xept that I must constantly practise it to drill it into my mind.

I am still trying to learn drawing automobiles , it required certain knowledge on the component parts which I not yet had seen. I will soon visit KINOKUNIA to get a book on it! =p

Meantime, I shall draw draw, post post, blog blog, and make myself happy =)
Zhaoru.