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NickFechter
12-31-2010, 11:40 PM
This new thread, along with the other new one that I just created, are part of my New Year's Resolution to improve my ability to draw and animate.

I may have been posting daily drawings on the O.D.A.D. the past few months, and I'm happy to say that doing so has somewhat improved my drawing skills.

But let's face it, I am one laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy butt-hole :mad:

I certainly do not feel that I have been nearly studying and drawing as much as I should be, and because drawing and animating is so much like exercising, if you don't step up your game you will eventually hit a plateau were your skill level stays the same. Never improving. Stagnant. Dead...

I've been waging a war with laziness for far too long, and these two threads are going to help me win this war once and for all!

This particular thread will deal with studies of the human figure, a subject that I don't nearly study as much as I should.

Therefore, upon this thread I promise to post AT LEAST one page of human anatomy study and AT LEAST one page of quick, gestural study each and every day. Effective January 1st, 2011

Why am I doing this? Because, I sincerely want nothing more than to be held accountable for my shortcomings, and establishing a goal on a public forum puts my integrity at risk, and without my integrity, how could I even stand to look myself in the mirror each morning?

I want to model these two threads after the ODAD thread (which I still plan on maintaining by the way). So I don't want this type of open commitment to be solely used by me, everyone and anyone is free to join me and embark on this journey to improvement. All I ask in return from any participants is that we help hold each other accountable for any slacking that may occur.

And please! If anyone sees me starting to slack on my commitment, feel free to call me names, send me nasty emails, and call me out on my failure to uphold my word.

This new year I AM GOING TO IMPROVE MYSELF!

DEATH TO LAZINESS!
Nick Fechter

nick_fechter@yahoo.com

Rodney
01-01-2011, 08:27 AM
You can do it! :)

NickFechter
01-01-2011, 06:59 PM
http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=318&pictureid=1476

http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=318&pictureid=1478

Wow, mustering up the courage to post this stuff was a lot harder than I imagined....

Well, as you can see I'm not entirely good at this stuff, mainly because I don't do enough of it.

Hopefully this thread will change all of that, so I'd best brace for feeling the burn of exercising these weak artistic muscles of mine. One page is full of gestural drawings drawn from a video on youtube (the next best thing to actual life). The other page has studies of the basic structure of the human torso, which I seem to have the most trouble with so I plan on spending some time on this before learning correct muscle placement on the torso.

I'll be posting the animation stuff later tonight.

Comments and Suggestions are Welcome!
Nick Fechter

Rodney
01-01-2011, 08:49 PM
I really like your torso exercise.
Very nice!

I've seen a lot of different approaches but I think this may be one of the best I've seen (i.e. easy to remember and reconstruct from memory).

Can you share where you learned that?

NickFechter
01-02-2011, 09:29 AM
http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=319&pictureid=1482

http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=319&pictureid=1483

http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=319&pictureid=1484

More anatomy and gesture studies.

I definitely want to make sure that I make the shapes and proportions of the human torso as accurate as possible for moving on to muscle placement. After all, you can't exactly decorate a house that doesn't even have support work in it.

Comments and Suggestions are Welcome!
Nick Fechter

NickFechter
01-04-2011, 01:05 AM
Hey Everyone,

I regret to inform all of you that I'm having family issues as of late, and I am taking a brief absence from the forum. I thank all of you for your words of encouragement, and I hope to return to my studies soon.

All the Best,
Nick Fechter

NickFechter
01-17-2011, 11:56 PM
http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=330&pictureid=1513

http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=330&pictureid=1514

And good lord have I gotten rusty! :eek:

Oh well, just glad to be back I guess...

All the Best
Nick Fechter

NickFechter
01-18-2011, 11:25 PM
http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=331&pictureid=1519

http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=331&pictureid=1518

Trying to learn how to create fluid and harmonious relationships between forms, its not at easy as some artists make it look...

Comments and Suggestions Are Welcome!
Nick Fechter