La Grande Belleza - 35% of Studies from January

That movie didn't hit me until after I watched it. Definitely buying the soundtrack. Watch the movie before you listen to it. And that dive I took into Painter almost drowned me. I'm sticking with what works for me and countless others (Photoshop). My focus went from foundational art skills to trying to get comfortable with new software (Sketchbook Pro and Corel Painter). None of them beat a sketchpad and pencil (yet) ....

Between the end of December and beginning of January I did about 230 gesture drawings. This signaled the end of the first round of anatomy studies I did for the few months prior. Wanted to get back to doing full figures instead of focusing on specific areas of the body.

I hadn't drawn heads for a good while. I think did around 30 in January. I used the head construction method (think it was Loomis' method). Circle, halve it, increase length by 50% (which would give you thirds), etc.

Ballerinas are great reference for figure drawing. Not only are they fit, which is great for observing the dynamics of anatomy in motion, but their poses (or at least the ones captured by the photographer) almost have a sort of built in gesture to them.

Is the flesh/fat around her pec area tucked back and under her arms? Or did I make that part a bit too narrow? Little bit of both. And that guy is just short ... not like I made his head a little too large or something.

Chose images with head tilts because I can't do them well. The bent leg still gets me a little, but I'm much more comfortable now that I know how the femur, patella and tibia (even you little fibula) work together and with the muscles of the leg. 

I just felt like it. Currently going through some Vilppu videos, but stopped halfway through to get back to Photoshop. Went through some basic tutorial vids to get back up to speed and will view a few on brush settings before getting back to figure drawing. I'll check back in in a month or sooner.