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RE: Fedodika the Koala - -echo- - 08-23-2018
Looks great, onward to the next one :-)
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 08-25-2018
Echo: Thanks brother for all the help <3
So the Tira piece as expected was a flop on the likes, id be surprised if it got like more than 30 by the end of the year;
But on a positive note, in november, the dude who runs our life drawing class is going to let us have a show in his studio, so im gonna really start humpin on getting my figures top notch. This might give me the motivation to get faster at improving. I wanna get really rock solid at figures for now and just not sweat a lot of other things like landscape and color mixing and such.
So lots of studies will be coming on that soon, and applying it. My goal is to finish the entire masters of anatomy book by november, which is 250 more pages of poses to copy, so about 2 or 3 thousand more drawings. Also wanna go back through the jeff watts figure and head program and keep refining that stuff. That way when i sit back down for imagination pieces i have a better visual library and a stronger command of the figure that is more charming and engaging and not this like... I dunno, good, but not great look.
I can take any artist who has archived their works since the beginning and show that kind of good but not great look. It just has this look to it, and i wanna get through this quick. Eventually things start looking just more sophisticated and articulate. I also wanna get into drawing horses, because they are tough to draw but can show a lot of motion and can be great compositional assets for battles or medieval kind of things. But yea, figures are the pill im gonna take from here on out, getting it rock solid so i can hopefully sell at least one thing at the show in november even if its for like 50$
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 08-27-2018
whew lots of hours today, gonna apply some shiz tomorrow
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 08-28-2018
had to do a buncha stuff today, but still managed to get these little scribbles in.
Gonna get back to the workload tomorrow hopefully!
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Artloader - 08-29-2018
Hey Fedo :) nice figure studies. Particularly that guy sitting down in post #1,610. There are some nice straight edges in that one. One thing I've been toying with recently is drawing with straight lines. I see a lot of master artists doing this and I think it gives a better result. Check this out:
https://fineartviews.com/blog/34952/simplify-drawing-using-straight-lines-on-rounded-objects
Hope that helps, if not please ignore :).
Keep grinding fella!
RE: Fedodika the Koala - darktiste - 08-29-2018
Remember it not the time spent it the focus learning that matter.
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 08-29-2018
Artloader: Thanks my dude, yea there is a lot of value in the straight line approach and i do use it when planning comps and doing studies. Really its just one way to do things, but a lot of my favorite artists use a lot of curved lines, like hogarthe for exmaple. The watts instructors teach some degree of this approach as well, specially in lay in phases, but they add in curved lines later like legs or drapery etc. But yea, there is a lot of value in that approach and one can certainly make an entire career around that technique!
Darkiste: Some people need mileage, some people need theory. Right now I need mileage in figure drawings!
These are a lotta fun, just blasting through them, i love falling asleep and have the stuff i was working on dance around in my head because i drew it so much that day. up to page 63/300 and i think ill level up big time the further i get in this book. Might try a longer figure drawing to go with it again tomorrow, usin them straight lines ;). I wanna get to where i can do pen sketches that are decent quality, and i think this book will give me the visual library to do so
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 08-30-2018
Gettin tighter, having a great time on these. Drawing heads a bit small here and there but the more i do the cleaner i get. I used to do stuff like this (like huge quantity), but i was never as careful and attentive to the lines i was putting down and the form, it was more scribbly. Being able to feel the construction and using the riley rythms adds a lot of value to this sort of practice. Ill aim for one well done digitial sketch tomorrow in just line, it outta be fun
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Artloader - 08-30-2018
Tight dude! Nice!
Love that you're using Rythmns. I gotta do some swotting up on them myself because I think they're really useful.
Keep it going my friend!
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 08-31-2018
Artloader: Thx my bro <3
Will get back to MOA tomorrow
2 little gouache sketches for my moms friend
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-01-2018
Drawingz hardd ;/
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-03-2018
The hardest part about drawing poses, is just finding one you like
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-04-2018
had a ton of fun doing a 3 hr drawing session on YT today. I used to discount the one minute poses but now that i am practicing the riley ryhtms they are a good challenge to lay it in quick. I think if someone is to do gesture, they should have some sort of construction or mapping they should be refining. Else for me at least it just feels like going through the motions. But ya im gonna make a list and try to do all of it tomorrow, it'll be pretty dense. Theres a lot of stuff i did today im not posting because i feel I leveled up after i did it and i just cringe looking at it.
ballpoints legit too, anything to get marks down and simplify as much as you can. that super simple style steve huston uses is a great example of building a strong scaffolding with everything in tact. i gotta do it more, im feeling quick benefits from it.
RE: Fedodika the Koala - darktiste - 09-04-2018
I am not seeing the level up you refering too.Specially since you prefer to hide the ''cringe''.It sure is hard to give constructive comment on short drawing that look like scribble i can give you that.Is post 1620 is a gesture study?Because if it a gesture study it seem to break what i consider gesture.I think gesture really in essense is all about balance if something move there something that counter balance the rest.For me gesture shouldn't be approch with any shading or any consideration to facial feature.It all about the limb and torso and the head relation.
Sorry if the last drawing wasn't related to the gesture study.
Would be still be a good idea to share those cringe but you ultimately know what you want critic and what just sloppy.
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-05-2018
Darkiste: I mean that my eye improved, and i was ready to chuck out the stuff i had done. It'll probably take a few days or weeks for my hand to catch up to my hand again
Nothin but PAINNN today lol
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-06-2018
Whew, today was mind blowing. I started out the day, and i said hey i need to see where im at with anatomy, like the most basic thing, which would be a standing pose. I started entirely from imagination and i was just struggling so much it was embarassing. So about 80% through, I didnt notice my power was low and it cut out, corrupting the file lol
So i got kinda pissy and said, "what was that thing tehmeh talked about like doing a 2 hr imagination sketch and patching up the holes." I didn't properly do that before, so i gave it a shot. I combined that with a rigney suggestion of intensely observing an image and then recreating it from memory, the correcting it and HOLY MOLY. Very very very cool thing to do. I had no clue how objective of a system that could be. You come face to face with everything you didnt nail. I felt like i was just learning, and taking in things consciously and critically, in a very different way than usual. And now i feel like i have that knowledge in a much more permenant sense.
For instance i drew in this memory sketch the legs a certain way and after seeing the reference i conciously said, "Never doing that again." So many of the thoughts going through my head in images are, "I dont want it to look like i think that's good." or hankering to a skill level that isnt desirable. so many theories developing...
Definitely gonna get this in the repertoire, hopefully will help fedo get from good to great soon (koala fingers crossed!)
RE: Fedodika the Koala - darktiste - 09-06-2018
One point i want to address is how you don't change the porportion height propotion between man and women in the first sketch.One other thing was how big those hand and feet look.
I really like that you actually did the correction so much people skip this phase and i think it where the real gold is hiding.
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-07-2018
Darkiste: I dont usually appeal to "muh style" but the artist i copied... Juarez Ricci, stylizes a few of the limbs mainly hands, and the midsection especially.
So i did this entirely from memory after doing the same observation, then correct after a memory drawing. i feel like im figuring shit out very quickly now, hopefully itll stay this way. Every one of these i do, i make at least 10 very profound observations, its pretty cool. Then i can recreate an image of like 80% of the quality of what i could do with the reference, which is kind of a big deal for me. I like!
RE: Fedodika the Koala - darktiste - 09-08-2018
Sadly memory is all about mileage and actually like telling your brain it as it as to remember the sh1t you want it to remember so it barely stick.It like algebra you wish you would remember algebra for all your life but it just vanish the second you stop actually applying it.
RE: Fedodika the Koala - Fedodika - 09-08-2018
Darkiste: Yessh, Darkiste always keeping me in check ;)
Another link in the fruitless endless struggles of Fedo