10-18-2016, 09:42 AM
Heya I've had a look through your stuff and you are improving a bit with your form painting, but I think you need to do more focused study and application on the structural drawing / perspective side of things before you start painting, especially with characters. Drawabox.com has simple exercises that work on the most fundamental build up of these skills. They may seem basic, but they will help you go much further.
You tend to paint/draw quite flat, and not show the turn of form, especially around contours of the silhouette. Showing forms turning realistically is all about showing accurate planes, following accurate perspective and when it comes to rendering, value and edge control.
Look up the Asaro head for the planes of the head, and there are similar resources for the major planes of the body. If you can understand the major planes in any form, it becomes much more methodical and easier to render and light effectively.
In terms of edges, all your contours are very hard edged...this does not imply a turning form. Look at master studies and how they handle edges to show the form. Also google the blog posts on edges by a guy called Stapleton Kearns, and get Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. Lots of knowledge in there.
I also recommend trying to do more accurate line drawings or sketches that resolve all these issues up front. Because the drawing hasn't been structurally resolved in perspective accurately, judging by the line sketches in some of your wips, it will mean a much longer harder painting and faffing around to get things to look right structurally when you really should just be mostly focused on rendering.
I think if you focus more on those fundamentals in your study/practice and apply to your illustrations, it will help with everything in general, but also will begin to eliminate the "collage / cutout" look that shows up in your final renders. This is a very common thing that happens when form isn't being dealt with properly.
Check out Walent's sb thread here on how he approaches his figures. It is very structural and you can see the results of the approach!
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-1...ght=walent
Keep it up
You tend to paint/draw quite flat, and not show the turn of form, especially around contours of the silhouette. Showing forms turning realistically is all about showing accurate planes, following accurate perspective and when it comes to rendering, value and edge control.
Look up the Asaro head for the planes of the head, and there are similar resources for the major planes of the body. If you can understand the major planes in any form, it becomes much more methodical and easier to render and light effectively.
In terms of edges, all your contours are very hard edged...this does not imply a turning form. Look at master studies and how they handle edges to show the form. Also google the blog posts on edges by a guy called Stapleton Kearns, and get Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. Lots of knowledge in there.
I also recommend trying to do more accurate line drawings or sketches that resolve all these issues up front. Because the drawing hasn't been structurally resolved in perspective accurately, judging by the line sketches in some of your wips, it will mean a much longer harder painting and faffing around to get things to look right structurally when you really should just be mostly focused on rendering.
I think if you focus more on those fundamentals in your study/practice and apply to your illustrations, it will help with everything in general, but also will begin to eliminate the "collage / cutout" look that shows up in your final renders. This is a very common thing that happens when form isn't being dealt with properly.
Check out Walent's sb thread here on how he approaches his figures. It is very structural and you can see the results of the approach!
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-1...ght=walent
Keep it up