03-24-2019, 07:40 AM
Sure! I appreciate your attitude, some people (on this very forum, an older self of me) cant handle it very well.
See youre at a kind of intermediate level, you have some basics down but its kinda scattered and the important stuff isnt refined, so that ends up hurting your overall quality. I was stuck where youre at now for several years, spinning my wheels, if you go through say the first 10-50 pages of my sketchbook. You can skip that in less than one year if you focus and work hard.
What id reccomend is getting the whole watts gear, the newsprint, smooth, get some nice pencils sharepened they dont have to be the conte 1710B you can get some cheaper like generals smooth charcoal just sharpen them well. And just go through all of prokos videos from gesture to spine to ribs, to basic head stuff, then go through each muscle group make sure youre drawing them immaculately, watch all the critiques, take extensive notes on paper about anatomy. also hit drawabox.com and do the box and cyllinder challenge if you havent.
If you can afford like a month of watts drawing, hop on there and download the workbooks, watch as much as you can do the exercises, learn the reilly rythms. Perfect your head and figure construction meticulously, using observation and memory studies. Go though Loomis head and hands, figure drawing for all its worth, hampton figure drawing, watch all steve hustons vids, villppu. Watch these streams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKfsZaNrmzM&t=5212s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVx1cHBlYgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTG00o3woq8&t=2371s
And just make beautiful drawings your goal for now; dont paint for... hell a year or two, digital or traditional. Just make it all pencil, learn how planes work and form and anatomy and perspective, lock it down tight.
This is a great thread from Erik im copying from
Art: E.M. Gist life drawing/ Updated 9/20/10 post 196
Also check brian knox's instagram and this:
https://wattsatelier.tumblr.com/
Basically even if you dont do these things, get as good as you can with a pencil, so good that just your line drawings are inspiring and people see value in them. From that point painting becomes a breeze. You shouldnt have the thought, oh color will save this, it should always be man i hope i dont mess up the quality of this drawing with color. once you do all that, youll see the value of drafstmanship, its just a journey of tuning those skills, color and painting is such a small part of the process, and not necessarily a crucial or even required skill for being a professional
See youre at a kind of intermediate level, you have some basics down but its kinda scattered and the important stuff isnt refined, so that ends up hurting your overall quality. I was stuck where youre at now for several years, spinning my wheels, if you go through say the first 10-50 pages of my sketchbook. You can skip that in less than one year if you focus and work hard.
What id reccomend is getting the whole watts gear, the newsprint, smooth, get some nice pencils sharepened they dont have to be the conte 1710B you can get some cheaper like generals smooth charcoal just sharpen them well. And just go through all of prokos videos from gesture to spine to ribs, to basic head stuff, then go through each muscle group make sure youre drawing them immaculately, watch all the critiques, take extensive notes on paper about anatomy. also hit drawabox.com and do the box and cyllinder challenge if you havent.
If you can afford like a month of watts drawing, hop on there and download the workbooks, watch as much as you can do the exercises, learn the reilly rythms. Perfect your head and figure construction meticulously, using observation and memory studies. Go though Loomis head and hands, figure drawing for all its worth, hampton figure drawing, watch all steve hustons vids, villppu. Watch these streams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKfsZaNrmzM&t=5212s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVx1cHBlYgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTG00o3woq8&t=2371s
And just make beautiful drawings your goal for now; dont paint for... hell a year or two, digital or traditional. Just make it all pencil, learn how planes work and form and anatomy and perspective, lock it down tight.
This is a great thread from Erik im copying from
Art: E.M. Gist life drawing/ Updated 9/20/10 post 196
Also check brian knox's instagram and this:
https://wattsatelier.tumblr.com/
Basically even if you dont do these things, get as good as you can with a pencil, so good that just your line drawings are inspiring and people see value in them. From that point painting becomes a breeze. You shouldnt have the thought, oh color will save this, it should always be man i hope i dont mess up the quality of this drawing with color. once you do all that, youll see the value of drafstmanship, its just a journey of tuning those skills, color and painting is such a small part of the process, and not necessarily a crucial or even required skill for being a professional
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
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]
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]