DeReyner's Sketchbook

[DeReyner]

Hey, looks good so far.
I'll try and give a bit of a critique on your work so far.

When drawing/sketching you have a tendency to be very, very sketchy. This isn't necessarily bad but it needs to be followed up by tightening the drawing. It may be the case that you're just working too fast. I see a lot of that and it's a habits that's hard to break. Accuracy is very important when learning. Being able to draw accurately and arrive at a nice, clean drawing becomes very very important when studying complex subjects like portraiture and anatomy and it helps a lot when you move forward into painting. Looseness is fine if you tighten your drawing later but being sloppy is a habit to be purged ;)

I also think you should put a heavier focus on anatomy. You're doing a lot of figure based drawing and knowing your anatomy just makes everything 10X better. Make sure you really memorise your anatomy. I saw you do drawings of the clavicle and scapula on the previous page yet a few posts above they're really just guessed. If you clearly mark the clavicle, scapula and acromion process, drawing the torso becomes much easier.

I hope I wasn't too hard on you. Keep on working hard! you're doing good :)

Yeah I do have the tendency to be sketchy which I think needs to be fixed. I think what the main problem that I face is that I tend to have a clean sketch and have long, flowy lines at the start but I tend to overwork it. As well my general inexperience and that I want to be faster which also results in the sketchiness. So yeah I've been trying to improve my linework by trying to draw more but that is still WIP. If you can suggest an exercise to "tighten" my linework that would be great.

I agree, my anatomy needs work as well. I was focusing on figure drawing and gestures because a person recommended I should do it as an exercise. I will definitely incorporate more anatomy studies.

Thanks for the critique, I don't really have an attachment to any of my work and actually prefer if people critique as hard as possible and point out what is wrong so no worries. I ain't butthurt at all so keep it coming.
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Below I tried to work on construction today trying to improve my perception of form and as well as my ability of blocking out and recognizing shapes.