Beard Clippings

[Patrick Gaumond]

Thanks for the crits man. Yeah its gonna be a long battle with hands. In my sketches (not studies) I've started grouping together fingers in 2s and 3s for some poses and its helped a lot, for now. That overlapping is just killing mee. As for the contours, I really only do them cause I'm not a particularly good draftsman. I've seen people like Alex Negrea and actually a whole lot of other artists, professional and amateur alike, do really great studies just with outlines and basic overlaps and I cant for the life of me good results with that so I tend to gravitate towards contour.

I'll keep in mind the shadows for later, I've had a history of exaggerating them too much so lately ive been lightening them up. I personally like the way they look but I think I'll keep tweaking them since multiple people have pointed them out. Also all 3 of those still lives were done on overcast days. Natural light was quite dim and the ceiling lamp was too so maybe thats why they're softer? I dont know, I'll use at least one stronger light source in the future. Loving them still lives

As for the ship, its a good crit. Connections are my biggest weakness at the moment. I think I should do some vehicle studies to improve that design sense. And damn, I'm usually pretty strict about catching tangencies, but I didnt even notice that one lol. I'll definitely clean that up! Tangents are just super awkward