More Cylinder People

Done form models in Karl Gnass's Figure Drawing Class

Eyes in Head

Kem in Mark McDonnell's Class

Transitioning to Cylinder People

I was having trouble doing the cylinder people in Mark's class.  The models are in costume and they do a lot of quick action poses.  It was too complicated, so I found a way to ease into it by simplifying.  These are not representative of what the class is about.  Each week he hands out a packet of concept art from an animated show and encourages the class to draw the model in the style of that show.  There is great variety of styles and the models are appropriate making it a lot of fun.  I hope to take the class again and do that, but for now I'm just focusing on simplifying what the model is doing.  

The ones above are draw overs from some of the class drawings.  Below are drawings of Carol from Karl Gnass' class which I take the night after Marks' class

Back to Mark's Class below.

and I managed to make the translation into cylinder people. 

Cylinder Kid Part 2

I re-worked my previous design with the goal of keeping the cylinders intact. The last one had gotten too complicated. I had to make her taller to get it to work.

I think I remember the idea below from perspective class but the significance was not clear to me at the time. When I saw it in one of Stan Prokopenko's videos recently it was super relevant to what I was doing and now I'm thinking about it whenever I draw anything.

 Lots of helpful information at Proko.com

Below - Malo in Karl Gnass's Figure Drawing Class

The times marked in the corners or the times of the poses and the lighter, looser drawing re what I was able to get down in that time.  I spent a good bit of time going over them later.  

Cylinder Kid Part 1

Eyes

Focusing on trying to get the eyes in the sockets

Sara Streeter in Karl Gnass's Head Drawing Class

Below are studies from the class drawings above.

Ball Head