Aftyn figure studies 4
This is me polishing up two of the sketches I made for Kimodameshi 2025 and adding a new one because I had already done one of them as a separate piece a couple months ago. The substitution let me a take a run at an elusive challenge, trying to describe curved forms within the patterns of her striped dress.
All three of these I think look pretty good, although the variety of lighting conditions in the references made for more variability in the value ranges on the studies than I would like. The reclining and schoolgirl poses were challenging just because my original sketches were off in proportion and required a lot of correction. (Compare the shape of her face in the schoolgirl pose, for example, with the original.)
The striped dress/dancing pose took the longest, which you can probably tell by the labored look of the marks involved. The final figure wound up being an amalgam of three frames from the little dancing video she released on Snapchat. Between lighting changes, framing, and the highly-compressed source material, it took a lot of effort to get the various parts of her feeling right. But, as is always the case when I have produced a drawing I can be proud of, I’m glad I spent to the time to get it right.
Fishnets are basically impossible to draw. At some point I just have to accept it.
I did this pretty quickly after number 5 because the idea that I had skipped the 4th post in this figure study series really upset my sense of organization. They will forever be out of order in the site listing. Will that bother me, too? Probably.
Original sketch:
Medium: Digital
App: Artstudio Pro
Tools: Pencil