Some remainders I didn't post on the last post hmm I'm not sure why the attachment stuff is happening:
Doing the Draw or Die Ascension challenge. REALLY STRUGGLING. It's a good thing because it's like a kick in the ass telling me to study anatomy. I have some thumbnails. I was first liking the second one but now I like the first one :/
Critique as harsh as possible I'm ready to learn!
I had more extra doodles to post, but the attachment stuff is not letting me add more oops, I will try to make new post.
There a nice potential in here but i think you have to start using more of the emotion you hide.Go crazy it really gray in here.The overall sketchbook make me think of a grey sky to much serious face in here.Make the sun come back add some color in here.
Darkiste, yeah you're spot on in your observation. I think I'm stuck in "study mode" and scared to take creative risks. Your comment encourages me to try out some new stuff for the future! Thanks for the critique!
Got some studies. Did a quick correction on the form study, although I'd bet the shadow might still be off?
Russian figure study, just need those toes and fingers to finish it off. Aye, this will be the last of studies. I want to do more creative work for myself for the next few weeks. Gotta put what I'm learning to use before I forget it all!
I think it first start with not using the eraser and really expressive line not caring about result but going for exageration.I Think a good exercise to loosen up is to do some caricature self portrait it about not taking yourself so seriously.Life is full of movement and expression.I think you need to pratice short gesture not more than 5min i advice between 30sec to 2min gesture to begin.One other exercise would be to practice drawing the different expression of the face.There other exercise that are not really related to putting a mark down.But still i think help become more expressive
One other exercise is more written like putting down what you wanna achieve with your art write it really big and fast and messy.
You can also before starting to draw do some little dance or make sound to channel some energy into a piece.
There an other exercise that is too close your eye go on a imaginary journey describe outloud what you see.
Darktiste: Thanks man, you give excellent advice. Was also reading your Art Sins thread, great stuff! :D The self portraits help a lot, I'll probably upload some self portraits next week
Gonna do something a lil different. Will try to upload weekly from now on:
Here we go! I think one of the reasons my work lacks life is because I don't understand color I realized that through this one baroque bulldog I was doing.
Next Art Week I'll show some color
Here goes July 16 2018 - July 28, 2018:
Thank you Echo! I agree, I need to learn how to loosen up a little more!
Well it's another Saturday! Another Artweek Artdrop! It's almost a month since I've been doing this and I've learned so much! I went from hating drapery and feet to loving to learn about them!
August 11 2018 - August 18 2018
Progress on that Dwarf:
That's about it for this week, until next Saturday! :D
Another Saturday! Here's the stuff for this week. Not gonna lie, it was a bit slow, but I'll be waking up two hours earlier to squeeze in more practice time due to university :P
Anyhow here's the goods:
That's about it for this week! <3
Thanks artloader! Yeah with this week, I took some breaks and few naps on my desk. Haven't gotten entirely used to my new sleeping schedule and staring at my monitor at 6AM with burning eyesssssss.
Strange week in terms of productivity but cool in that I realized how to improve next week. Here goes:
I like that last tonal digital portrait.You can really feel those eyelid wrap around the ball of the eye.I just think the eyelid should be producing deeper wrinkle were it meet the brow rig.
Darktiste, thank you for the quick paintover. I will have to go back and review some facial anatomy next week.
Sorry there's no personal sketches or fun stuff to look at. I have to work harder next week. I dropped a class so I can gain 3 more hours of practice or time to do personal/portfolio work. I'll see how it goes.
For the mean time, here's the stuff for week 7. Wish I could have worked harder :(
That's it for this week Daggers!
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my progress.
I think you have to work on material study to create greater distinction between different element.In post#38 the first character skin look like it was the same material as the pant it not enough to give color to object to describe what they are you also have to take in consideration the way it affected by light.For example metal and hair doesn't reflect light the same way.
Here how i would recommend you approch studying material if you follow my advice. You don't simply copy you have to understand what make the material reflective or not.This is what is tricky.My advice try to find a close up image of the object to really understand how the light bounce or get lost(absorb).
It good idea to have a varierty of object made of different materiel near by to observe them under real light condition to supplement from drawing from reference if you can afford do it worth it.
A good example of thing you can find around that make a good variety of object would be something like.A piece of wood
a piece of food,a piece of cloth,a tin can,a plastic Bootle,a piece of fake fur and some utensil.
Best is to have a room where you can control the lightsource.For example it a good idea if you have a basement to use it since there little to no light there.
You can find alot of texture to study just enter: material study in a search engine and click the image section.
