Drawing WOD’s by Antonio Stappaerts

On January 17, 2023

Release date:2022, July 27

Duration:23 h 38 m

Author:Antonio Stappaerts

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

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Table of Contents

Cycle 5:

01 Figures

Part 1
Beginner Goal: Adjust a reference of an artist to design your own character
Hardcore Goal: Invent/design a character from Imagination that has a gesture

Before you start, warm up by doing some automatic drawing exercises. (intuitive drawing)
(give an example)
Pick a dance video on youtube. Now you will do gesture studies from 1 dancer
from that video. lt helps to play the video at 0.25 speed and pause after every second, this
way, you’ll get a new pose that you can study every time you press pause. For this example
We used this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJoie-znJI8
Do 10×1 minute studies
5×5 minute studies
3×10 minute studies

Try to do all these studies from the same dancer, and you‘ll end up having an entire sequence of that
dance.

Hardcore: Do the same amount of studies using a reference of life drawing figures, try to
make use of shadowmapping in the 5 and 10-minute studies.

Part 2
Complete 30-minute studies from an artist that you admire. Focus on the gesture and posing of
these characters, don’t worry about details. It’s best to pick characters that are grounded, this
way, you can train your posing and get better at placing figures on a ground plane, and flying figures
are much easier.

Part 3
Design a warrior using a reference as inspiration :

A female dancer that holds a sword or spear
A male dancer holding a sword or spear

Hardcore: Design a warrior from imagination based on the poses you’ve learned

A female warrior/dancer that holds a sword or spear
A male warrior/dancer holding a sword or spear

02 Hard surface

Part 1

Freehand a minimum of 20 cylinders in a variety of angles
Stack at least10 cylinders on top of each other in a variety of angles
Draw 10 half-cylinders in a variety of angles
Draw 10 half spheres and 10 quarter spheres in a variety of angles

Part 2

Pick 3 armor references from the Roman era and:
1. Break down each reference into a max of 5 simple forms
Rotate each reference in at least 3 different angles

Part 3
Design 3 new armor pieces based on the reference you choose by:

Playing with the proportions of the simple forms you established in part 2
Adding detail based on your reference but matching the newly established proportions

Harcore: Design a full Roman armor suit for one of the following classes:

Tank character
Dps character
Healer character

03 Organic

Part 1
Beginner Goal: Design a plant minion, a very basic
Hardcore Goal: Design 3 plant boss

Review the cylinder video if needed
Draw 30 freehand cylinders in a variety of angles
Draw 30 freehand bent cylinders with a manipulated contour in a variety of angles
Draw 30 manipulated planes (twisted, bent, and/or stretched)
Draw wrap 10 different kinds of leaves on each of the planes just drawn

Part 2
Pick a minimum of 2 different trees or plants you wish to study
Study each by:

Breaking it down into manipulated cylinders and planes
Redrawing each plant/tree in 2 different angles

Beginner: Study 2 minion designs from your favorite artist
Hardcore: Study 2 create/boss designs from your favourite artist

Part 3
Beginner: Design a plant minion using references + the knowledge they gained from the studies as inspiration. You can look at the boss’s designs from other students to create a minion that this boss could summon.
Hardcore: Design a plant boss with everything you’ve learned from parts 1 and 2. You can also design a minion for this boss + 2 attack sequences.

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