07-08-2013, 03:07 PM
Yo, thanks for the comment! You should put a link to your sketchbook in your signature, it was kinda hard to get here XD and Doug Dimmadamnit your light and form in those portraits is KILLER.
The economic linework in those bookstudies you're doing is EXTREMELY AROUSING but I can't help but being reminded of one pitiful Summer I spent painstakingly copying every drawing in Bridgeman's giant orange anatomy book, and I retained absolutely none of the information from all those drawings. fact is I wasn't applying it to drawings from imagination or memory, nor was I using the information in my personal work. Matter of fact, the only thing all those bridgeman studies accomplished was impressing people on conceptart.org!
On the last page you did some figures and faces from imagination, and I think you need to be doing much more of that kind of work. About half as often as work from observation. If your observational studies aren't making your personal work better there's no point to all the studies.
The economic linework in those bookstudies you're doing is EXTREMELY AROUSING but I can't help but being reminded of one pitiful Summer I spent painstakingly copying every drawing in Bridgeman's giant orange anatomy book, and I retained absolutely none of the information from all those drawings. fact is I wasn't applying it to drawings from imagination or memory, nor was I using the information in my personal work. Matter of fact, the only thing all those bridgeman studies accomplished was impressing people on conceptart.org!
On the last page you did some figures and faces from imagination, and I think you need to be doing much more of that kind of work. About half as often as work from observation. If your observational studies aren't making your personal work better there's no point to all the studies.