12-22-2020, 10:39 AM
(12-21-2020, 12:45 PM)darktiste Wrote: It great that you don't seem to erase but i think you would get more energy in your drawing if you would do a light preliminary under drawing as a base and then draw over.Also good to see your playing with shading it gonna help you get more precise value.Hey darktiste, thanks for the feedback! I agree that I need to get more of a dynamism into my poses, I'll try what you said and start with a premliminary gesture next time I do figure sketches. Right now I think I'm focusing too much on just the outlines (like these next few figures).
I also decided to try some drapery studies with some mixed results:
These first two I abandoned really quick as it wasn't looking good at all from the begining. I think I should have been more patient with these though.
This one I did a more careful block in and spent about 5hr or so building up the values. I don't think its that great. Looks three dimensional but not much like cloth. Here's the reference (I drew this from life). As you can see I changed quite a lot in my drawing, either due to mistakes or trying to make it read better.
Drapery is really hard for me to get realistic, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, if its the values the edges, or the proportions, etc. (I'm guessing all of the above). Anyone got any pointers?