06-11-2014, 06:59 PM
Hey Zombiechinchilla, I'm glad to see you posting more often now that you're out of school for a bit.
So from what it looks like it seems like you really enjoy to draw and paint characters. But seriously, and oh I mean seriously, study the anatomy of the nose please. I'm liking all the stuff you're doing but your noses are all the same. They're very large and always flip up kind of like a cartoon nose. I'm not sure if this is a type of style you're going for, it's hard to tell, but even if it is you should still study the nose. If I can say anything to convince you it's that some of your side views of your heads show the nostrils directly underneath the eyes. That is never ever natural ever.
Try to buy or find a download of Loomis' Drawing the Head and Hands book and studyyyyyyyyyyyy. Study it all, let it consume you. Recently you were doing some gestures and figure studies and anatomy studies and that's fantastic, definitely keep doing those. But don't forget to apply your studies. One thing I'm not seeing all that often in here are your own figures from imagination. Every time you sit down to do some anatomy or gestures or figures be absolutely sure to leave some time afterwards to do at least a few of your own figures from your head and really try to think about what you learned.
The only other thing I've gotta mention is on the previous page I saw you did a ton of horse studies and then there was a plein air painting, all while working on a redesign of Buttercup. That was a perfect opportunity to apply studies to your work but instead you drew horses and an environment. Now I'm not saying "Don't ever draw horses unless you draw more horses" or anything like that. It's all good fun if you feel like drawing a horse or two, but if you want to improve as quickly as you can then you have to knock out the pointless studies. Those horse studies weren't applied (This is all based on assumptions since I don't see any horses from imagination but you could've just not posted them) so you probably aren't going to remember much of what you learned from drawing those horses. However studying the figure and gesture and female faces and dresses or green color schemes, any of those would've been fantastic to study while working on Buttercup. Just keep this in mind when working on your next image.
But anyway, school can be a bitch of a time sucker so take your time off seriously and draw what you really need/want to draw. I hope I could help and please keep posting :)
So from what it looks like it seems like you really enjoy to draw and paint characters. But seriously, and oh I mean seriously, study the anatomy of the nose please. I'm liking all the stuff you're doing but your noses are all the same. They're very large and always flip up kind of like a cartoon nose. I'm not sure if this is a type of style you're going for, it's hard to tell, but even if it is you should still study the nose. If I can say anything to convince you it's that some of your side views of your heads show the nostrils directly underneath the eyes. That is never ever natural ever.
Try to buy or find a download of Loomis' Drawing the Head and Hands book and studyyyyyyyyyyyy. Study it all, let it consume you. Recently you were doing some gestures and figure studies and anatomy studies and that's fantastic, definitely keep doing those. But don't forget to apply your studies. One thing I'm not seeing all that often in here are your own figures from imagination. Every time you sit down to do some anatomy or gestures or figures be absolutely sure to leave some time afterwards to do at least a few of your own figures from your head and really try to think about what you learned.
The only other thing I've gotta mention is on the previous page I saw you did a ton of horse studies and then there was a plein air painting, all while working on a redesign of Buttercup. That was a perfect opportunity to apply studies to your work but instead you drew horses and an environment. Now I'm not saying "Don't ever draw horses unless you draw more horses" or anything like that. It's all good fun if you feel like drawing a horse or two, but if you want to improve as quickly as you can then you have to knock out the pointless studies. Those horse studies weren't applied (This is all based on assumptions since I don't see any horses from imagination but you could've just not posted them) so you probably aren't going to remember much of what you learned from drawing those horses. However studying the figure and gesture and female faces and dresses or green color schemes, any of those would've been fantastic to study while working on Buttercup. Just keep this in mind when working on your next image.
But anyway, school can be a bitch of a time sucker so take your time off seriously and draw what you really need/want to draw. I hope I could help and please keep posting :)