That’s right kids, it’s time for another epic post of naked folk. I’ve had a fever, and the only aspirin is drawing naked people.

For some reason it’s much easier to draw guy than girls. I compare it to pool. When you have wide open shot with lots of green between you and the ball you’re trying to hit, it looks really easy, but I find I almost always miss those. It’s the gritty shots where I’m trying to snake it in between other balls that I find I manage to sink it in the hole. Girls are just too smooth, there’s no detail to latch onto. That’s why I feel the drawings of guys are better than the ones of the girl.

Here’s a couple of other random things I had lying around I figured I might as well throw into this post.  The first is a photo manipulation of one of the figure drawings from above.  The other a digital painting.  I need to get a better digital camera because this one will only shoot 1600×1200 and that’s really not high enough resolution if I wanted to do one of these manipulations for print.

Just so everybody out there doesn’t think I’m getting all sensitive I thought I’d post this stuff. With all my lovely drawing of naked ladies I wouldn’t want anybody to think that I’d forgotten my roots; drawing monsters and the chicks who kill them. So without further ado, here’s some art.

Ok, so this one is a bit sensitive. It’s a digital painting of a lovely young lady without a trace of a monster. But it’s been sitting around for a few days without being posted.

Here’s a landscape. Took about two hours in Painter and Photoshop. It was looking terrible until I brought it into Photoshop and started overlaying a bunch of crap onto it. Adjustment layers and Overlay layers are the key to this digital stuff.

In Painter it was just a bit too smooth. I had to bring it into Photoshop to add the texture and those brushstrokes. Painter can do some really nice stuff with simulating natural media, but I just don’t know it as well as Photoshop. I probably just need to find a brush I like, and use it until it makes sense.

I did this one because I rarely draw anything mechanical. If you look at my previous post you can see that the attempt at stereos were rather haggard. I didthis one so that the mechanical object was the focus of the picture. Sort of a supplement to all the figure drawing. I found that I can indeed draw straight lines with the tablet if I try. I was just being lazy and ignoring backgrounds. So next time I’m being lazy and not wanting to draw a table or something I can just look at this one and make myself do it.

This is all photoshop with a wacom tablet. Probably excessively overlaid with texture, but that how I like to do things.

So I did this digital painting as practice. Then I started playing with it some more in Photoshop and came up with something more designy and I think that ultimately stands on it’s own as a piece of art. The painting was referenced from a photograph, so I can’t take credit for the composition or the model. But I think it turned out well. I like that I’m getting to the point with the wacom that I can generate my own content for these sort of manipulations and don’t always have to use photographs, which usually involves using somebody else’s photograph.

I always try to write these posts late at night after drawing when I’m tired. They just turn into rambling messes.

I need to go through my own photos and see if there’s anything in there I can do anything with. It’s easy to make a nice image if you’re copying a picture of a naked woman. Unfortunately the supply of photographs of naked women that I’ve taken is rather slim. I may have to content myself with doing digital paintings and designs of empty booze containers.

Here’s a couple of digital master copies that I’ve done the last two nights. I worked on these probably a couple of hours each. These are all photoshop, looking at the paintings for reference. The first is a Bougoureau, the second Michelangelo. These are great practice. I feel like they’re major steps forward in my handling of the wacom. I didn’t get as far along with the second as I would have liked. For some reason it was taking longer than the other.

I did a master copy of a Vermeer in college. It was the first oil painting that I did that I thought was decent. It wasn’t, of course, just much better than what I had been doing. You learn a lot about how to depict form by doing these. You see how they handled. Looking just doesn’t do it. The only way to learn is by hand.

I did this yesterday, just messing around in Photoshop with images from free CG texture sites. I wonder if they’ll ever need anything like this at work.