(01-30-2019, 09:08 PM)Gliger Wrote: your silhouettes could say a lot more than they do, clean them up more, make the angles feel more angular and the curves feel more curved, focus on creating contrasts in the silhouette that make the design clearer

(01-31-2019, 05:47 AM)darktiste Wrote: One problem i see atm is that your character is holding a 2 handed weapon as if it was made of plastic there no problem with it if it made out of a special light weight material but it helpful to give weight to object to ground the design into reality.It important to gather posing reference when your not sure about a pose.For example here i used google and wrote soldier holding gun.I choose to delete her back pack and change the pose i added a hand gun on her side to give more interest to the silouette .I think what important is that every line of the silhouette read as one object or the an other.Since i changed the pose i deleted the back pack to help the arm read more and i choose to transform the backpack into a sidekick transport bot.Silhouette are really important to think about because they help the character pop out of the background and be recognizable around other character you don't want you silhouette to be to similar to an other character you also want them to be as clear as possible because sometime the character will be really small that where it really important to have strong silhouette in my opinion.

(02-06-2019, 06:33 PM)darktiste Wrote: Just refine those in 3 tone for the second sketch of post 46.You did good on the first one.But try to put atleat 3 tone instead of one or 2 solid value to describe an object or else you flaten the drawing.For the mech iteration i recommend throwing value in the background to help the shape stick out of the page because of the white background it willl register it as a if it was drawn on a paper making it automatic read as 3d but also 2d.I also added a cast shadow to anchor the shape down as being inside a 3d space.

(02-06-2019, 09:31 PM)Artloader Wrote: Nice shapes Slashrazor :) your silhouettes really look like convincing representations of 3D forms to me.

You've got some good stuff going on in here, no useful crits from me, just keep going!

(02-12-2019, 07:54 AM)darktiste Wrote: I feel like you need to explore outside your confort zone that seem to be silhouette of a magicien inside foggy scene.You did not draw a single tree so far and it take away the realism you could inject in your scene.So far you been really fix inside some skyrim type scene.

(02-12-2019, 09:45 AM)chubby_cat Wrote: Hey Razor. Great to see you filling up your sketchbook with a variety of things :) If you haven't already, I'd recommend picking up Andrew Loomis' book Creative Illustration. It has a great section about different kinds of compositions that I think will help

(02-12-2019, 06:18 PM)Amit Dutta Wrote: Hey dude. Picture This by Molly Bang is all about composition if you want probably the best book on it, though the best way to 'learn' composition is to do many of them. That said yours aren't bad...just keep pushing those boundaries every now and then. Using flat shapes is great but it is too easy to flatten perspectives like a telephoto lens unless you keep perspective in mind while creating shapes.

Also you're a kiwi right...in Welly, I forget? If so there's a local studio that has classes that you might be interested in that I'm going to..trad focused but huge fundamentals gains and for serious people not dabblers. Let me know if you want to know more.

<-(This may not be good advice, I'm not sure, but think about it for yourself)