oh ok, that seems about true, thank you good sir ^^
would like to start practicing drawing inflation pics
Mon, 12/17/2012 - 17:45
#5
Agree with Bapho. Get a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil loaded with Pentel synthetic #HB lead, a clic-style soft eraser stick, and some cotton bond paper. Lightly trace the outline of an uninflated body from your favorite image source, at a size the fills the long axis of the paper. Then erase the belly curve, move it out a bit, and fair it in with the rest of the body. Repeat with thighs, breasts, etc. and don't worry about clothing, that comes later.
Doing it incrementally like this, and always starting with an unexpanded sketch, will give you a feel for how to keep it "real" at each stage of the expansion. It's easy and it's good practice, probably the best you can get unless you can get lessons from a pro.
This is how I got started and it is exactly like learning guitar licks off of recordings. Do this for a while and you won't need the recordings anymore. I cannot claim to be a pro-grade sketch artist, but that's not necessary to entertain your friends here.
-Latecomer
PS if you share your living arrangements with someone else who does not know about your private interests, be careful to destroy the sketch after assessing it and whatever you do, if you wish to digitize the sketch for secure storage, ALWAYS CHECK THE SCANNER PLATEN FOR YOUR ORIGINAL AFTERWARDS. You don't want the wife to stumble across it...
PPS If you want I can upload examples of this process for you so you can see how it evolves.
Mon, 12/17/2012 - 20:03
#6
hehe thanks for the tips, and an example would be great please
Thu, 01/23/2014 - 18:43
#7
Great tips you have here. I am also a beginner and I'm actually practicing the technique you've given. I have a partner who knows all of my private interests so I'm very well supported I must say. Thanks for sharing.
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 00:36
#8
Hi Geekasaurus101, i am back from the holidays. Will try to provide you an example soon. let me know if there is an email account I could send it to directly instead of posting it here; it might not be of much interest to the rest of the readers- Latecomer
Tue, 07/23/2013 - 23:55
#9
When you've practiced noninflated forms a bit, I'd also suggest maybe practicing with images of pregnant women, naturally heavier people (not the hyper weightgain images, but just... heavyset models), that sort of thing. Think about how different substances behave in a confined yet stretchy space. Seriously, fill up a few balloons with different things (water, air, sand, whatever you want) and compare them. From there, just... Play with that and see how it could apply to a body. But the biggest thing is to practice and pay attention to weight as much as anatomy.
I say this, and I honestly need to practice inflation stuff too. I REALLY want to start doing inflation commissions someday, myself... Or at least get the courage to do a few request sketches.
Practice drawing uninflated bodies first. It seems counter-intuitive, but having a decent grasp of anatomy really helps with altering that anatomy.