DrawSpeak

I have not been good at keeping things up to date here. I am going to try to be little better. For more frequent updates please check out my Patreon page at Patreon.com/TanHend Nothing there is behind a pay or account wall but the option is there to support me if you think my content is worth something. I post there weekly. 

I have done some major overhauling of my website in the past year. There is still a long way to go before it is where I would like it to be but I am happy with the way it is coming along. Check it out at DrawSpeak.com

Shape Dolls and Emotion - Sad

The last set I posted were all happy so here are some sad ones.

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Moving in arcs around points

The legs on DaVinci's Vitruvian Man man show the arc idea a little. Andrew Loomis' diagram in Figure Drawing For All It's Worth is more thorough (page 33). Loomis' diagram is the inspiration for my version. 

More on my Patreon - Patreon.com/TanHend

Drawing Shape Dolls

The dolls are available for sale here DrawSpeak.com

New Shape Dolls for Sale

New Shape Dolls are now up for sale here!

I changed the name from Proportion Dolls to Shape Dolls. Shape is simpler, shorter, and  more common word. I also think it describes their purpose better.  Check out my videos for examples of how they are used.

I am selling them as a kit and as a pair.

Reilly Head

I haven't played with this diagram in a while and it was fun to revisit it.

Frank Reilly was an instructor at the Art Student's League in the 1940's, 50's and 60's. He made diagrams that showed rhythms in the face and body that can be followed to keep the parts of a figure drawing interconnected rather than disconnected pieces.

The most common version I've found is Fred Fixler's version. 

I have a longer write up about this diagram posted on my Patreon page.

Shape Heads

It's easy to get lost in the details of a face and lose the big picture. Big shapes make it easier to see how the features relate to one another. 

The faces in this post are referenced from Face it: A Visual Reference for Multi-Ethnic Facial Modeling  

Head Light Animation

Individual frames are posted on my Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/posts/31972036 

Proportion Doll Drawing Video

New Video! 

The dolls are now up for sale https://tanhend.storenvy.com

For some photos to try drawing from visit https://tanhend.com/proportion-dolls and scroll down.

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Video - Using Cylinders to Show Dimension

I'm being a little silly to highlight the idea.

Proportion doll videos

I made some videos!

The first one shows how the proportion dolls move and the second shows how to use them to establish proportions and provide a foundation or guide for details by drawing a simple character. 

To support the creation of more videos please visit my Patreon page

Drawings from Proportion Dolls

These dolls are designed to be flat, simple, basic shape representations of figures. They come from the idea that there's a lot of complex information in learning to draw a detailed, three dimensional human and it can help to separate things out into stages, for learning parts at a time, instead of everything all at once. Read more about them on My Patreon Page.

 

Portraits

I started a portrait sketch meetup. We meet every other Friday and we model for each other. Each pose  is 10 mins. These are done with Tombow markers

Life Drawings

From 2018, drawn at The Ridgefield Guild of Artists, The Aldrich Contemporary art Museum, and Gilbert and Bennet