07-14-2016, 08:48 PM
Hey man, good to see your recent stuff! I think it's great to practice on paper like that, especially with figures. I think that on paper you look at the whole drawing a lot more, on the screen it's hard not to look at just parts of the drawing so things like proportion can be hard to practice.
I think it's good too to introduce other study areas like values or perspective instead of getting stuck in one area. I would say, for the sake of your sanity, to regard them as a kind of 'overview' of the study area, to familiarise yourself, then in the future at some point you can go back to them and study them really intensely (in reality it's more like a roundabout going over those same topics again and again each time adding a new layer of understanding). I mention this stuff because when I did that stuff first time round, I studied different things like you but then got super frustrated when I couldn't pull some amazing illustration out of my head and I kept beating myself up with things like 'but you studied perspective and values, why can't you draw this perfectly lit interior with two characters interacting in a down angle, what's the matter with you, you're useless'. I still feel like that XD but am better at knowing why things don't work out how I want.
Not that you're doing any of that stuff, just seemed like a good thing to drop ^^
I think it's good too to introduce other study areas like values or perspective instead of getting stuck in one area. I would say, for the sake of your sanity, to regard them as a kind of 'overview' of the study area, to familiarise yourself, then in the future at some point you can go back to them and study them really intensely (in reality it's more like a roundabout going over those same topics again and again each time adding a new layer of understanding). I mention this stuff because when I did that stuff first time round, I studied different things like you but then got super frustrated when I couldn't pull some amazing illustration out of my head and I kept beating myself up with things like 'but you studied perspective and values, why can't you draw this perfectly lit interior with two characters interacting in a down angle, what's the matter with you, you're useless'. I still feel like that XD but am better at knowing why things don't work out how I want.
Not that you're doing any of that stuff, just seemed like a good thing to drop ^^