so tomorrow a girl has agreed to be a figure model for me. I'm enrolled in an art school and I want to get better at anatomy. I'm quite unsure as how to go about it but I want to be as professional as I can. Any tips on how to conduct a figure modeling session and certain things to say/not say to a girl who is going to pose nude for you?

in return, susan coffey

can you give me some critique on this?

I'm reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Enjoying the read so far, and Edwards sort of leads on to talk about how the current education system is more focused on teaching students about tapping into the left side of the brain which is all about using logic, verbal and numbers. As such lacks knowledge and training to use the latter half.

Is this why I and some of us can't draw very well, /ic/?

What do you guys think of these high school shoe designs (Obviously not designed with fashion in mind)
http://www.vans.com/customculture/

Critique!

hello /ic/
can you give me some critique on this?

I have some problems with the girls mouth, and the wolfhead, I can't seem to get it to fit in, I'm tempted to replace it with some other animal or skull head, ideas?
also do anyone have referances for this particular angle of the face? I need to study it a bit more.

This is one of the pages of the comic I'm working on.

I'm generally pretty good with figuring out lighting but I realise now that I don't fully understand how reflected light works, specifically in the included picture.

I get that the cylinder is mildly reflecting light coming off of the surface it's standing on in that example, but how come there is a dark core-shadow? Does this have to do with the angle of the form relative to the light source? Like, since the core-shadow is perpendicular to the direction of the light, is that why it's the darkest (for some reason)? Or does that reflected light have to do with the position of the spectator relative to the sphere?

If I'm not being clear enough I will try to dig out some more specific examples. Thanks a lot in advance.

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