Figure Drawing:
Gestures
Clothed Figure
Academic Drawing
Cicero Cast Drawing
So the pieces that I decided to put up from my freshmen year at Ringling are from the figure drawing class. I'd say that the area that I improved on the most is definitely in figure drawing as I self-studied Glen Vilppu's methods and got pretty far from where I started in the beginning of the year. In comparison to the typical observational drawing figure drawing that we're taught in class, I preferred the more construction based figure drawing method by Vilppu. This definitely is a plus for us Game-Art students as it forces us to think in 3D space and get used to the construction of the human body. One thing that did drag me down though were the shading aspects as Vilppus method was more focused on showing the form through conceptual lighting (look up his works and you'll see its similar to wire-frames). FYI the academic drawing does not reflect the conceptual lighting as that piece was experimental and kind of a failure in terms of what I tried to achieve.
The pieces that I picked don't exactly show everything I've learnt as they're just homework/ assignments. For example the cast drawing shows nothing that resembles Vilppus methods due to the forced cast drawing shading but the construction of the face is well defined (for the most part). I do not believe that these pieces are better than any of my sketchbook pieces that I do for practice as in my opinion, once you've become somewhat proficient at doing what you do, any work that you do should be on par or better than your previous pieces. I do have to admit that I'm probably very rusty now as I'm trying to learn how paint (mainly digital). Hopefully I would be able to achieve the same kind of progress in painting as I did with my figure drawing!
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