07-11-2016, 07:26 PM
Hey dude, I think you're doing really great! there are some nice shapes going on in the work above! The faces don't have that stiff / sterile look that often happens when someone does full constructions, it shows you are not being a slave to the construction, which is great, it took me ages to do that.
I think you don't need to worry too much about the weaknesses you mentioned. It's so hard when you have to think about construction, proportion, design, anatomy, line quality all at once! As you progress you will become comfortable in say, construction, and then the lines or proportions will have more 'space in your head' to be thought about.
One thing that it is important to watch for are bad habits, since those things creep in without you realising and are a nightmare to unlearn. It's really hard to spot them yourself, much better if you can show your work to someone regularly but that's not always possible! Examples of bad habits are things like, always drawing the eyes too big, for me I always construct the brow in a bad way that makes me always place the eyes too big and too low, but it is such an ingrained thing I always do it even when consciously trying not too!
A good way to try and catch things is to look at your work a few days after you've done it and physically make notes on the page about things you do that are consistently wrong or that you want to improve on - the act of writing it down puts it more firmly in your head and it becomes a conscious decision to work on whatever it is.
Hope that's useful! Your stuff is coming along really great!
I think you don't need to worry too much about the weaknesses you mentioned. It's so hard when you have to think about construction, proportion, design, anatomy, line quality all at once! As you progress you will become comfortable in say, construction, and then the lines or proportions will have more 'space in your head' to be thought about.
One thing that it is important to watch for are bad habits, since those things creep in without you realising and are a nightmare to unlearn. It's really hard to spot them yourself, much better if you can show your work to someone regularly but that's not always possible! Examples of bad habits are things like, always drawing the eyes too big, for me I always construct the brow in a bad way that makes me always place the eyes too big and too low, but it is such an ingrained thing I always do it even when consciously trying not too!
A good way to try and catch things is to look at your work a few days after you've done it and physically make notes on the page about things you do that are consistently wrong or that you want to improve on - the act of writing it down puts it more firmly in your head and it becomes a conscious decision to work on whatever it is.
Hope that's useful! Your stuff is coming along really great!