01-11-2016, 06:31 PM
Hey man, thanks for dropping by my SB. :) Great to see you are doing the Draw a Box course too. The lines and ellipses looks pretty good, you did a nice job with those superimposed lines. I vaguely hate that exercise. It mocks me. LOL But doing it improves my ability a lot. But where are the freehand and organic boxes? And the form intersections? Share more man, I want to see them! Honestly, I think the Draw a Box lessons are probably what is going to have the biggest impact with, well, everything. And there are anatomy lessons too later! So that is what I'm focusing on.
Your 250 box challenge looks good, I wish I could magnify more but the lines look nice and straight and the line weights are dynamic. However, it looks like you have some near-far plane issues hiding out in there. I recommend drawing through your boxes, as it is harder to make that mistake when you can see all the planes. Don't worry about being pretty. It might look nicer to only draw the lines we can see, but we want to understand the box as a solid thing at this point.
I don't have much crit for your gestures and stuff, as I'm not doing those right now. I need to though. In some of those 5 min. gestures it looks like you stopped doing gestures and started copying outlines, though, I'd watch for that. Proko has a great explanation of the difference between contour and gesture here (link), and a great video on what a gesture is here (link), check them out if you haven't seen them.
Keep studying man! It's all about mileage.
Your 250 box challenge looks good, I wish I could magnify more but the lines look nice and straight and the line weights are dynamic. However, it looks like you have some near-far plane issues hiding out in there. I recommend drawing through your boxes, as it is harder to make that mistake when you can see all the planes. Don't worry about being pretty. It might look nicer to only draw the lines we can see, but we want to understand the box as a solid thing at this point.
I don't have much crit for your gestures and stuff, as I'm not doing those right now. I need to though. In some of those 5 min. gestures it looks like you stopped doing gestures and started copying outlines, though, I'd watch for that. Proko has a great explanation of the difference between contour and gesture here (link), and a great video on what a gesture is here (link), check them out if you haven't seen them.
Keep studying man! It's all about mileage.
"Drawing is a skill like hammering a nail. You might not be great at it yet, but there is nothing stopping you from gettin' down and hammering away." -Irshad Karim
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