{"id":838,"date":"2010-11-07T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2013-07-29T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:59:53","slug":"i-know-you-only-read-this-blog-for-the-nudity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"I know you only read this blog for the nudity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some more life-drawing. By next week I hope to have a few actual comics to show you guys, namely my submission for Stumptown Underground’s Religion & Spirituality issue<\/a> and my submission for Hazel Newlevant’s<\/a> “Ultimate Sadness” anthology. I really need to draw my butt off this week.<\/p>\n



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I’ve really learned a lot recently from Michael Mattesi<\/a>‘s excellent guide Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators<\/a><\/span>, though I’m still figuring out how to put it into practice. Though I’d always though that, while you’re in the studio, your life-drawing should be as “realistic” as possible, and that you should only “cartoonify” what you’ve learned later on, Mattesi gives the opposite recommendation: cartoon\/caricature “as you go” so that you bring out the most important aspects of the model or pose. In that drawing above, I deliberately widened the trunk of the body by about 20%, just to emphasize the smug, masculine confidence of the pose. I also caricatured the face and gave him a cigarette. I think it’s very interesting how you can do this and still be very faithful to what’s in front of your eyes – I feel I’m only scratching the surface here. I’ve only just discovered Mattesi’s incredible video blog<\/a> and website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some more life-drawing. By next week I hope to have a few actual comics to show you guys, namely my submission for Stumptown Underground’s Religion & Spirituality issue and my submission for Hazel Newlevant’s “Ultimate Sadness” anthology. I really need to draw my butt off this week. I’ve really learned a lot recently from Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-figure-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}