Art Post: Well Met in the Woods

[minoanmiss]

Again with the multiple versions. I'm so indecisive.

Comments

[potofsoup]

what about labeling the first one as the huntress? ;)

[gingicat]

+1

[amaebi]

Yes, until I scrolled down to the second I thought the first displayed a femiform hunter.

It's interesting how different the stereotypes are around male and female hunters.

[minoanmiss]

Ahahahah I continue to be bad at drawing boys, which amuses me. I think it's because when I draw people I "feel" it in my corresponding parts. I'm proportioned differently than most men so I don't get their proportions right. I need to look at Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie some more. :D

[potofsoup]

haha, I think it speaks more to my love of androgynous women ^^;;;

Generally people tend to draw men with smaller eyes and more angular jaws, but what is gender, after all?

[minoanmiss]

What is Gender, after all?

There definitely is that. Also I really like men with big eyes. Matt Bomer, Anthony Mackie, and Oscar Isaac all have large/striking eyes, off the top of my head.

[potofsoup]

in that case, draw the eyebrows thicker and closer to the eyes, in order to emphasize a more prominent brow ridge? Works for Matt Bomer and Oscar Isaac. For Mackie it's more about his cheekbones.

[minoanmiss]

tskes notes Thank you. :)

[acelightning]

Oh, what delightful images! I'd like to know the story these come from!

[minoanmiss]

I like songs and stories like Spring Strathspey that are about people meeting in the woods, so I basically illustrated that concept.

[acelightning]

Gwydion's "Spring Strathspey"?!?!? "I want to be merrily courted in Spring!"Gwydion Penderwen was the first "Pagan bard" of the 20th century, and I'm very glad to know you are familiar with his work. I never met him, but his was the first recorded "officially Pagan" music (aside from a few tracks by Jethro Tull and Fleetwood Mac and The Incredible String Band). So the strange young man in the forest has made the maidenly maiden decide she doesn't want to be a maiden any longer :-)

[minoanmiss]

Yes, that one! I forget when I first heard a tape of his works but they BLEW MY MIND.

[acelightning]

The song titled "The Lady's Bransle" (that last word is pronounced "brawl", and it was the name of a dance) became one of my son's favorite lullabies when he was a baby - "Oh, She will bring the buds in the spring, and She will bring the flowers..." (yes, my choices of "lullabies" were highly eclectic). Gwydion was a pioneer, one of the heroes of modern Paganism. And one hell of a songwriter.

[darkmarcy]

I was expecting palette variations but not this :D Excellent!

[minoanmiss]

*blushes* thank you :)
I need to work on my boys, I guess.

[acelightning]

I envy you the research you'll have to do for that. Spending your time looking at videos, photographs, drawings, and paintings of good-looking young men... :-D
Chris Hemsworth, Chadwick Boseman, Nathan Chen. [*wiping the drool off my keyboard*]

[minoanmiss]

I know! It's going to be DIFFICULT. laughs and laughs

[acelightning]

I'm a Dirty Old Lady ;-)

[sabotabby]

I think two; the huntress' position seems more dynamic and I like the vest detail.

[amaebi]

I agree about the postures.

[cjsmith]

I like the first one. The body pose (head tilt, arm position) seem less “coaxing” in the first one and more just happily welcoming.

I, too, read that first one as a female hunter until I scrolled to the second one. Gendered terms for the unmarked case are so confusing.

[minoanmiss]

Hee, I let the huntress be bossier, which I guess says things about the artist's psyche.

And I continue to be bad at drawing guys. *goes to work on that*

[china_shop]

These are adorable! I slightly prefer the second, but I'm not sure why. :-)

[readera]

💚💚💚

[dhampyresa]

I'm curious, do you do any volume blocking (idk the name in English, basically step 3 here)?

Really curious about the story behind these!

[minoanmiss]

No, I don't do that step, and you know, I think it might be time to incorporate it. :) Thank you, a lot!

These are inspired by songs and stories about people meeting in the woods and having sex. I commented at further length to Acelightning above.

[dhampyresa]

I remember having had a bit of trouble adding that step to my process back in Ye Olde Dayes but it is really very useful to me nowadays to block out shapes/volums/proportions etc. Then again I do quite a bit of searching on the paper because I usually don't have a cohesive or complete picture of what I want to draw and obviously everyone's different!

Anyway, I hope you try and that whether you keep using it or not you learn something about your process from it.

[mekare]

Lovely, both of them!