My goal with this pose was to focus on the back and the legs. I think that those two things came out good, the shadows on the back are a bit heavy and the knees need some work but overall not bad. The forearm has some issues as does the shoulder where it meets the neck. Overall not bad even if there are some issues.

Another reflected light study, it's less pronounced in this study than it is in the last study but it's there. The trick with this one was to get the reflected light on the fruit without having it look like there was a second light source. With the orange I succeeded with the pear I think that I made the light a bit to strong. I think that it still passes off as reflected light but could be mistaken for a highlight or something. As usual this took an hour to do.

While overall I like this drawing I think it has some minor issues. The ankles seem to be too thin, that could be the model but it has been a problem that I've been noticing in my figures lately. I also feel like there are some issues with the shoulders and neck but I'm not able to pin down exactly what. On a more positive note I think that the shadows in this drawing are good and the cloth looks nice even if it's unfinished.

It's a teapot and another ambient occlusion study. Again this isn't the most exciting subject to cover but even something basic like this is valuable practice.

 I love the pose here, it's very theatrical. I kind of imagine he's giving some sort of great Shakespearean speech. A lot of the muscles and anatomy on this are well defined even though the drawing itself isn't quite as finished as I would have liked. If I had had more time I would have spent it on the face and given him a ground shadow to really give him the feeling of standing on something rather than floating in a grey space.

Another translucency study this time using bat wings. This was difficult because of all the little veins that are in the wings and the way that they interact with the light. There these little lines that are just slightly less translucent than the skin around them so it took me a minute to figure out how to paint them. Using an overlay layer and darker tone seemed to work pretty good. As usual this took an hour.

 I got an Atlas like pose for my final pose this time and I think I came out pretty good. Some of the muscles on the back aren't as clearly defined as I would like and was barely able to get to the legs. But I think that the arms and shoulders came out pretty good.

A Subsurface scattering study done in about an hour. I think it came out good, the areas around the fingers and the palm both came out good with the light coming through the skin. I think that the whole study came across successfully.

I think that this final pose is a bit heavy on the contrast but I think that it still works. The light parts really help to define the figure but some of the details get lost in the shadow.

Another reflected light study this time focusing on a single subject. I was nice that this orange was placed in a white space it really allowed me to see just how far reflected light can go. Even the back wall gets a bit of the  orange reflected light. I learned a lot from this hour long study.

I think that this is one of my favorite figure drawings that I've done recently. The contrast is nice, the form is well defined and the highlights really help give the figure some life. Really my only regret is that the arms, neck and face didn't get finished as much as the rest of the body. But you can only do so much in 30 minutes. 

This is an ambient occlusion test. While not as exciting as some of the other studies I've been doing I think that revisiting basic concepts is a good thing to do an a regular basis. This took an hour to do.

I am sad to say that I don't have an appropriately spooky post for Halloween. The only spooky thing about this blog today is that I have made one post a day for the entire month. I hope that I can keep that trend going into November and beyond.

 Despite having a lot of the sketch lines still visible I really like this final pose. I think I got the muscles in his back and arms really well defined. When I started this pose I was worried I wouldn't get this far because I'm so used to drawing women who have far less muscle definition.

This is a transparency study looking at how light travels through objects. For an hour I think that this came out pretty good, I got the basic concept down and even though I didn't get get to color I still think that it was a successful piece.