11-13-2018, 06:57 AM
(11-05-2018, 10:16 AM)Fedodika Wrote: 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
Haven't read Juliete's book in so long I should really go back to it.......... I normally start my laying-in lightly and once I'm happy with how it's all looking that is when I start laying-in those dark lines trying to emulate how Brian and Erik etc do their drawings but haven't got the hang of it yet (clearly). Still wrestling with the side of the pencil sometimes, notice it the most when I fill in tone, it takes me a few tries before I hit the sweet spot.
For awhile now I've been meaning to devote some time to master studies, do a shit ton of drawigns and try and emulate what they do in my own work just not enough hours in the day! Once these lessons finish mid Dec I have around 2 weeks off from work so I want to spend that entire 2 weeks just cranking out master studies and maybe even some plein air painting and perhaps some master studies of paintings.
Checked that artstation link and my god are those girls thiccccc haha, I can see what you mean by how he pushes those shapes to the extremes, tbh I don't want to push my drawings that far but obviously I need to push them to some degree.
I like your idea of studying some caricature (thanks for the link btw) I feell ike that would be a good way to help me loosen up alongside some more quick sketching and master studies. :) Tbh I felt abit directionless when I tried loosening up last week which I'll explain more when I post my work.