08-04-2024, 05:58 AM
To cgmythology, thank you very much. I was in the middle of reading your sketchbook so I haven't had time to comment there yet, but your art is very good.
To JosephCow, I tried to fix the prism, cylinder and glass. People can tell me if I did wrong or if there's other pics I should fix.
I also didn't use any perspective for the shadow exercises, except for the room, I just eyeballed them. I don't know if I should redo the shadows or if it's ok that it's eyeballed.
By space doubling trick do you mean the one that was used for the trees?
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...ment37.png
I didn't know an equilateral triangle would look like that in a square, I will try to remember that. You are very good at understanding and explaining this art stuff, makes me want to have a teacher lol.
In response to what you wrote earlier.
"I think maybe it would make sense to practice your perspective skills on the scene instead! Maybe you can do some composition sketches using perspective to block out the scene. There's a lot you can do with just photo reference and old fashioned 2pt perspective."
I don't know, I kind of want to save drawing it for later because it feels so complicated and I might change my mind about things, I can't even draw a proper skeleton now. Here's an old bad drawing I did of part of the area:
It's inspired by Beksiński in case it looks familiar.
https://muzeum.sanok.pl/images/stories/B...201972.jpg
I imagine the walls and these large figures are made out of skeletons (the figures aren't the skeletons, they're made from thousands of them), maybe they have red ferns growing out of their eyes. Or maybe that looks too edgy... I dunno I might change my mind about things...
It would be hard to see the skeletons from so far away, but I was planning a closer angle that is hard to explain, and there are smaller room sized areas too.
I got feedback on a small bit of my writing a while ago from some real critics and was pretty much told it was terrible lol, so I ought to study storytelling too and after that maybe I'll change my mind about even more details... but I know I want to at least keep the skeletons because they're important for the plot. Still, I haven't even read through books on composition yet so I don't think I should draw it now, if I do I might just end up wasting my time on something that ends up looking bad.
I imagine the background art style kind of Mike Mignola like, for studying I took a bunch of screencaps of one of his cartoons. A lot of his backgrounds are cast in shadow, which helps with not having to draw details. Things can also just be implied, like how all the bricks aren't fully drawn in most of the backgrounds.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFb2Bmz...9pICt/view
Sorry for rambling.
To JosephCow, I tried to fix the prism, cylinder and glass. People can tell me if I did wrong or if there's other pics I should fix.
I also didn't use any perspective for the shadow exercises, except for the room, I just eyeballed them. I don't know if I should redo the shadows or if it's ok that it's eyeballed.
By space doubling trick do you mean the one that was used for the trees?
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...ment37.png
I didn't know an equilateral triangle would look like that in a square, I will try to remember that. You are very good at understanding and explaining this art stuff, makes me want to have a teacher lol.
In response to what you wrote earlier.
"I think maybe it would make sense to practice your perspective skills on the scene instead! Maybe you can do some composition sketches using perspective to block out the scene. There's a lot you can do with just photo reference and old fashioned 2pt perspective."
I don't know, I kind of want to save drawing it for later because it feels so complicated and I might change my mind about things, I can't even draw a proper skeleton now. Here's an old bad drawing I did of part of the area:
It's inspired by Beksiński in case it looks familiar.
https://muzeum.sanok.pl/images/stories/B...201972.jpg
I imagine the walls and these large figures are made out of skeletons (the figures aren't the skeletons, they're made from thousands of them), maybe they have red ferns growing out of their eyes. Or maybe that looks too edgy... I dunno I might change my mind about things...
It would be hard to see the skeletons from so far away, but I was planning a closer angle that is hard to explain, and there are smaller room sized areas too.
I got feedback on a small bit of my writing a while ago from some real critics and was pretty much told it was terrible lol, so I ought to study storytelling too and after that maybe I'll change my mind about even more details... but I know I want to at least keep the skeletons because they're important for the plot. Still, I haven't even read through books on composition yet so I don't think I should draw it now, if I do I might just end up wasting my time on something that ends up looking bad.
I imagine the background art style kind of Mike Mignola like, for studying I took a bunch of screencaps of one of his cartoons. A lot of his backgrounds are cast in shadow, which helps with not having to draw details. Things can also just be implied, like how all the bricks aren't fully drawn in most of the backgrounds.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFb2Bmz...9pICt/view
Sorry for rambling.