12-09-2016, 12:50 AM
Well hello there Jeyram!! My, you have some pretty lines and gestural sketches!! You also have some nice foundation to your figure work and heads.
I am however seeing a very consistent problem in your little head sketches. But it's more philosophical. Your heads are charming, the ones that aren't skewed at least because you roughly get proportions right and that makes an appealing little sketch.
The problem is, that's the only head you seem to be able to draw. Like, these photo references you (printed out) and pasted next to the sketch don't really resemble the head, even in a stylized sense for some of them. I'll see the reference, then look at the three sketches around it and i still can't decide which one it's supposed to be.
And I know this might suck, but like learning all the planes of the face and all the little pockets of fat is what it's going to take to push them faces to the next level. Even if they are stylized. Take some risks too you know, draw a crazy long nose, draw some goblin or troll looking faces, you'll learn a lot about proportions and how to vary them. It's something that can be really fun too since when you draw ugly creatures, you can try out lots of different shapes and you experiment with a different tool set.
Further, get just one sheet of paper, and a ref and copy that ref for a few hours, and erase stuff, and try to make it look exactly how it looks in the reference. This really WILL be the hard work because oh man it's tough lol. do your best at this and you will sort a lot of things out doing it!
Best wishes,
Koala man
I am however seeing a very consistent problem in your little head sketches. But it's more philosophical. Your heads are charming, the ones that aren't skewed at least because you roughly get proportions right and that makes an appealing little sketch.
The problem is, that's the only head you seem to be able to draw. Like, these photo references you (printed out) and pasted next to the sketch don't really resemble the head, even in a stylized sense for some of them. I'll see the reference, then look at the three sketches around it and i still can't decide which one it's supposed to be.
And I know this might suck, but like learning all the planes of the face and all the little pockets of fat is what it's going to take to push them faces to the next level. Even if they are stylized. Take some risks too you know, draw a crazy long nose, draw some goblin or troll looking faces, you'll learn a lot about proportions and how to vary them. It's something that can be really fun too since when you draw ugly creatures, you can try out lots of different shapes and you experiment with a different tool set.
Further, get just one sheet of paper, and a ref and copy that ref for a few hours, and erase stuff, and try to make it look exactly how it looks in the reference. This really WILL be the hard work because oh man it's tough lol. do your best at this and you will sort a lot of things out doing it!
Best wishes,
Koala man
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
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Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]