04-21-2021, 12:34 AM
There is an update, in this one I also want to share my thoughts about things I figured out, what if it might be useful for someone?
There was the main issue on the previous week: drawing portraits. From starting one I figured out that 1) I have no clue what is happening on a face, even though, I understand the shape of it 2) while drawing it my brain kept turning off and I wasn’t analysing what a hell am I doing.
First issue as I think, comes from the fact that even though I understand the shape of the face, I don’t understand the element on it. I even didn’t even know how the ear looks like, I was just drawing “something” not the ear. You can see it in my study of ear, before starting I just drew how ear looks like in my mind. So the goal for next week is to study the elements of the face to not be embarrassed as I did with ear.
Second issue was, I believe, solved with help of forum. In Dimensional-knight’s sketchbook, they pointed about increasing the accuracy of lines in drawing, while you use reference. JosephCow showed the way how he analyses the reference, what he is drawing, and it helped me to figure out that I actually don’t even have any kind of approach to analyse the reference. THE REASON why my brain kept turning off was because my brain didn’t have instructions to work, lol. It might be obvious for someone, but it wasn’t for me till now. SPECIAL THANKS TO JOSEPHCOW, if you will ever read this! So from now on I will try to use his approach and with time I should figure out what is working for me and not.
Now about the things I have done.
With face elements I started from Nose and Ear. I tried to do quick studies and then check in everything I learned. Works nice, should have done it a long ago. And the portrait study that started all of this.
I got inspired from cgmythology and dimensional-knight sketchbooks, so I did a sketch of card looking illustration and was drawing funny fishes.
Weird looking sketch of something? I guess it's from heroes 5.
This flowers are just an expression.
There was the main issue on the previous week: drawing portraits. From starting one I figured out that 1) I have no clue what is happening on a face, even though, I understand the shape of it 2) while drawing it my brain kept turning off and I wasn’t analysing what a hell am I doing.
First issue as I think, comes from the fact that even though I understand the shape of the face, I don’t understand the element on it. I even didn’t even know how the ear looks like, I was just drawing “something” not the ear. You can see it in my study of ear, before starting I just drew how ear looks like in my mind. So the goal for next week is to study the elements of the face to not be embarrassed as I did with ear.
Second issue was, I believe, solved with help of forum. In Dimensional-knight’s sketchbook, they pointed about increasing the accuracy of lines in drawing, while you use reference. JosephCow showed the way how he analyses the reference, what he is drawing, and it helped me to figure out that I actually don’t even have any kind of approach to analyse the reference. THE REASON why my brain kept turning off was because my brain didn’t have instructions to work, lol. It might be obvious for someone, but it wasn’t for me till now. SPECIAL THANKS TO JOSEPHCOW, if you will ever read this! So from now on I will try to use his approach and with time I should figure out what is working for me and not.
Now about the things I have done.
With face elements I started from Nose and Ear. I tried to do quick studies and then check in everything I learned. Works nice, should have done it a long ago. And the portrait study that started all of this.
I got inspired from cgmythology and dimensional-knight sketchbooks, so I did a sketch of card looking illustration and was drawing funny fishes.
Weird looking sketch of something? I guess it's from heroes 5.
This flowers are just an expression.