07-04-2013, 05:45 AM
Holy crap, you are one prolific son of a gun. :P
Really nice sketches and studies in here, you're doing a ton of work and it shows. Plus you're actually taking the time to get outside and draw people and things, that's a huge thing a lot of artists miss (myself included). The memory drawings are a great exercise as well.
I think one thing I'm hungry to see more of in your drawings is a purposeful balance of curves and straight lines. You're doing it well in some areas, especially you're more stylized drawings, but I feel like some of the life drawings are suffering from a little bit of wobblyline. Not that wobblyline is always a bad thing, but when it's frequent enough it starts to become like a poet slurring their words because they're not quite sure of the pronunciation. So I think it might be helpful to try and be a little more convicted with your strokes, spend a few seconds thinking and then put down one confident mark exactly where it needs to be. I think this'll help both your line quality and the structural solidity of your drawings.
Also in response to "(oh btw if you have any tips for doing those lasso landscapes I'd love to hear em, totally lost)", I actually did a bunch of those a while back ([Link]) and what I found most helpful was to work with a good amount of layers. So I'd usually work background to foreground; start with a sky gradient, add clouds if they're there, add the main elements, add elements in front and behind main element, add a bit of detail and soft edges for looks, and all of those things would be on their own layer (Maybe two or three layers with clipping masks if they have multiple colors). The nice thing about the lasso tool studies is they force you to make a decision about exactly where something ends and the next begins, good practice for sure. Also good for studying value and color.
Great work! Happy 4th, can't wait to see more!
Really nice sketches and studies in here, you're doing a ton of work and it shows. Plus you're actually taking the time to get outside and draw people and things, that's a huge thing a lot of artists miss (myself included). The memory drawings are a great exercise as well.
I think one thing I'm hungry to see more of in your drawings is a purposeful balance of curves and straight lines. You're doing it well in some areas, especially you're more stylized drawings, but I feel like some of the life drawings are suffering from a little bit of wobblyline. Not that wobblyline is always a bad thing, but when it's frequent enough it starts to become like a poet slurring their words because they're not quite sure of the pronunciation. So I think it might be helpful to try and be a little more convicted with your strokes, spend a few seconds thinking and then put down one confident mark exactly where it needs to be. I think this'll help both your line quality and the structural solidity of your drawings.
Also in response to "(oh btw if you have any tips for doing those lasso landscapes I'd love to hear em, totally lost)", I actually did a bunch of those a while back ([Link]) and what I found most helpful was to work with a good amount of layers. So I'd usually work background to foreground; start with a sky gradient, add clouds if they're there, add the main elements, add elements in front and behind main element, add a bit of detail and soft edges for looks, and all of those things would be on their own layer (Maybe two or three layers with clipping masks if they have multiple colors). The nice thing about the lasso tool studies is they force you to make a decision about exactly where something ends and the next begins, good practice for sure. Also good for studying value and color.
Great work! Happy 4th, can't wait to see more!