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More Posing

Sunday, April 12 2009 UTC

After fooling around quite a bit with more complicated schemes for posing figures,
I decided to use just a simple non-heirarchical, single-layer block scheme for posing figures
in a SketchUp drawing. I’m quite happy with both the flexibility and control it provides.

More block figure examples

I think this allows me to fairly easily add to the drama of any scene.
If all the figures, buildings, etc. are already there in the scene,
then when I go to transfer one to a painting, all the problems of
composition, perspective and foreshortening will already be solved.

Posed figure example, tweaked in Photoshop

Next stop is just to create some more cool scenes using these tools, and then
make something based on them —
probably a simple goache drawing to start. Eventually these might
become very ambitious, and turn into large, finished artworks (or
prints, or films, or …).

Addendum: ye gods, I can’t stop…