Peter's Sketchbook

[Fedodika]

yea bro, i recently read juliete atrides lessons from classical atelier and one thing she emphasizes is that a master will leave his drawing light as long as possible to ensure accuracy. A hard line draws attention, theres no award for nailing all your lines right away, and i think thats holding you back.

Hell it might even do you some good to play or study caricature for a while to get yourself in a different headspace and loosen up. I think you are noticing from erik that yes the side of the pencil is the gold spot, ONLY save those dark lines for late in the process. And like on the old fellow erik drew next to yours, he pushes the eye sockets, his forms are just more robust more angular.

Study different types of styles, like cartoon, i really like the kinda nsfw artist inputwo, and his style is so tasty and free flowing. Studying his work and other cartoonish artists helps me push stuff in realism and find better shapes. This guy is obsessed with design, all he cares about is finding the absolute sexiest shape for a leg or butt. I remember when he was just starting now ppl are doing 3d scultpures of his stuff. If you can push it all the way, itll look too floppy, if you do what you do, and go for accuracy only it gets too stiff, try to see both worlds

https://www.artstation.com/inputwo

Heres a free book on caricature, try to just go wild man get stupid kinda like my early stuff, just super whimsical and boneless, i know it sounds counter intuitive but for you specifically i think itd help

https://vk.com/doc-54852533_320642789?dl...51b57f2fdc