MagneticScrolls Sketchbook - Starting from the beginning again

[MagneticScrolls]

My advice would be to still be near artist even if the teacher doesn't specially care for you.I know the feeling there alway talent people who seem to draw all the attention.It rare to find teacher who really understand there role in giving everyone equal chance of sucess.One of the main thing you need first to figure out is how other study.Copy for the sake of copying can really slow your progress.You have to shift your state of mind into an analytic one.

I got a small post for you that might help you unlock the way it possible to shift to this state of mind.

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-4107.html


The problem with most tutorial is you have to figure out how to translate them into useful practice.
I would say one of your problem at the moment is your not aware of how wrong your angle are.You could make 1 drawing instead of 3 but you seem to not bother making a correct drawing you take 3 shot when you could make it in 1 or 2.
You also have little control of your stroke you often overshot your line.It not bad but it can be done with intention not by accident.

My advice keep drawing cube and learn more about perspective at moment i would say you should stop shading and simply try to interpret image in the language of line.Also breaking down the face into basic form to slowly come to a more accurate result.

One good exercise you can do that can help you practice accurate drawing is to take and image and flip it upside down and to copy it it seem stupid but it useful because it shift how your brain interpret what you see you look more at the image and you interpret less.

Well the teachers in these classes make no effort to teach anything at all. They just tell everyone they are good and to draw what they feel. Sometimes they tell their students to ignore criticism all together.

Yes, I realize my line control is very poor and I've been trying to improve it but to no success. I have been breaking the face down into a simplistic form with the Loomis I was practicing. It has little effect though.

I did a couple more draw a box attempts before giving up on it. It's too complicated for me even at the most basic level. I really don't understand how to progress though that site. The videos aren't helpful in any manner.

I have been flipping my drawing upside down. I try to correct what I see but then when I flip it right side up it's still wrong, just in a different manner.

Hey Magnetic, I would say you are moving in the right direction. Your heads are starting to show some appreciation of perspective, probably because of your drawabox and Loomis exercises.

What I'd encourage you to do now is slow down, when you are doing a cube carefully trace the edges back to the appropriate vanishing points.  Ghost through your lines before you draw them.

Another useful exercise is to trace over a photo ref. with some construction lines, e.g. take a head ref. and trace a Loomis construction over it.  This should help you link construction with real life and help you when you try to construct from your imagination.

Hope that helps, keep going fella, you're moving in the right direction :).

Drawabox is very complicated. I feel like I'm missing most of the point of it.
I have been drawing over the references but, only fairly basic things like the brow line and angle of the center of the face. I can't seem to get the sphere in the correct position for some reason when I draw over it.












































I haven't posted in a while but here are the latest drawings I have. The guys in discord told me to try drawing things i liked and to do some studies so I chose a couple of pieces of box art from some old video games. Sadly things did not go well with those images. I failed to fit the characters into the correct places, possibly due to proportion issues that I have. This really shows my lack of anatomical knowledge as well. I just feel like I don't have the tools to tackle projects like this.