I had always thought I would be painting only nature my whole life but nowadays I feel stirrings for expressing other things …. that can only be portrayed through humans. So I had decided to start learning how to draw figures and stumbled accross these oh so cool books (which Ryan had kindly put up) while searching for books to buy:
http://www.placidchaos.com/AM/index.php/2006/02/21/andrew_loomis
They are available free to download. Do check them out if you are on this road too. I`ve started on `Figure Drawing for all its worth` and its so great, it has everything you would want to learn about drawing human figures for illustration purposes.
These drawings are a few from the first chapter:
These are from a book I just got by post, Fairies and Fantasy by Meredith Dillman. Its a small book so it doesn`t have a lot of information but you can look through the 12 projects (step by steps in the watercolor painting process) for inspiration. These include mushroom fairy, autumn dryad, poppies fairy, wisteria fairy etc..
I`ve been drawing a lot these past couple of days, and have a lot more work to go but I will try to do a small watercolor to keep me in touch with painting…
