What Happen To Creativity

In my own true fashion, I publish one post, declared I'd change the world and then.... I got sick.  Apparently, my mind was ready, but the body was shocked to hear the news.  The result... lack of creativity and motivation to do much of anything.  I'd feel bad about it, but this endeavor didn't have a time frame tied to it, and I need to keep a balance.  Sometimes that means there isn't much punch left when the day permits you to work on these things.  Well, I've spent to much time explaining and not enough time showing what I've been doing.  I go my printer hooked back up so I can scan my drawings.

I started with a perspective exercise.

It's simple and in 1 point, but I wanted to understand how to draw blocks in a circle.  I figure this way I can draw from multiple angles with comfort.  O.K. this was really the second drawing, but it would flow better if I had done this one first.  Here is the first drawing

This was from a tutorial on airplanes from "The Gnome Workshop".  I'm thinking about getting an ellipse template so I can draw circles in perspective better.  The key to this drawing was the ellipse.  The main line was derived from the minor axis.  Pretty cool.  Everything else was extrapolated from the center line.  Not bad for a first attempt.  Seriously, this was my first attempt.  The right thing to do would be to draw about 2 dozen of these airplanes.  Unfortunately, that hasn't happen yet.  I got distracted with animal anatomy drawing.

See where the box thing came in handy.  Essentially, the tutorial talked about forms having too much information for us to remember.  Simplifying the form eliminated this problem.  As a result, Hips of an animal can be thought of a box.  The torso an egg, and the head as an egg.  Throw in a few perspective lines and I've stared a basic form of an animal.  The hips are always suppose to point down, I'm told.

That is about it.  I've looked at a lot of art and various technique over the past several weeks.  I wish there was more, and it is really hard to not judge quality, progress....  but I had fun and I did it when I could enjoy it, not force it.  Until next time.  Cya!