I was just reading a very cool book on Digital Character Design and Painting called....Digital Character Design and Painting by Don Seegmiller (great book BTW) and he talks about fantastic drawing exercise you guys might like trying at home.


5 dot Drawing Exercise

This is a very handy exercise to help you get into drawing more dynamic character poses. Its quite simple to set up. :)

Take about 10 or 12 peices of paper and have a friend/family member or co-worker draw 5 dots on each page in different locations (these should be completely random). When this is done you take each page and draw our character using 4 of the dots as legs, and arms and the 5th as the head (assuming your drawing is of a quadruped).

There you have it..sounds easy? Well its actually pretty challenging..at least it was for me. :)

I hope you try it and enjoy the process...it may help some people out of a creative rut...

Cheers.

That's a pretty cool thing to think about...I hope people post what they came up with. :)

it's really tricky, i gave it a really quick, scaled down go, digitally, just popped 5 dots down and tried to make a figure, and damn it's hard, makes me realise how much i have to learn about anatomy, i'm ok when i do the torso first, can pull off a pretty convincing human form, but when you have to start the opposite way, with hands/feet, it really throws you, very hard to imagine where the torso would lie, have to imagine depth and movement you wouldnt consider, damn fine excersise, i'm a gonna be doing more of these :)

http://www.merulifestyle.com/Portals/10/dot1.jpg


btw. have img tags been removed?

The image tags have been reenabled in this forum - sorry about that.

it definitely is not an easy exercise but one that I think will serve only to improve peoples drawings as well as a great "loosener upper"