11-08-2017, 07:50 AM
(11-06-2017, 08:09 PM)Adzerak Wrote: Heya!
Real impressed by the quality and quantity of studies you're doing! Especially the face-construction ones :)
A nice addition to gestural practice imo is drawing quick poses without lifting the pen, not only doing the outlines of the form but letting the pen travel to and fro within the form as well. Can really help with rythm and construction as well as overall line quality as well.
Also I think you should do/post more personal work. Even if you're into super-study mode right now it's important to draw something from imagination I find, to check if those studies actually helped. Often very rewarding too since you'll often see that yes, yes they have!
Hey Adzerak thanks man! I haven't tried that quick pose approach before, I've got a life drawing class this Thursday so I'll give it a go then.
Yeah I'm really bad at doing personal work. I always say to myself that towards the end of the week, whether I'd been drawing heads or learning anatomy I'd spend some time applying what I had been studying, whether it was invention or simply drawing from memory. Sometimes I get round to it and other times I feel like I haven't done enough studying in the week and want to do more. I also seem to make a big deal out of it aswell, that I need to do this big finished illustration and it has to be perfect etc etc, which daunts me, but I guess there is nothing wrong with starting small and working my way up to those finished pieces.