04-05-2016, 10:49 PM
Good work OneSketchMan! Killing it with the discipline despite your sickness.
For regular excercises:
- Lines: Good, keeping both to a page so you can focus on animals. As long as you keep doing them every day.
- Cylinders + Boxes: Do some form intersections and work that into your excercises instead of basic boxes and cylinders? Or combine those two to one page and do another page of form intersections
- Forms: Instead of the ones you're doing now, do some form dissections
(just giving you some more advanced regular excercises to try out, that I haven't seen you try yet)
For animals:
I think you should instead be doing 1 page of animals, all of the same animal in diff poses. ex. 1 page of all flamingos.
And instead of setting a time limit of 1 min, progress like this
(2 - 7) lay ins - ball and string / fast lay in only (10 mins total): focus on accurate placement of elements relative to others and accurate measurement (height / width) + angles.....do as many as you need to until you feel like you've got the proportions down, as fast as you can. esp. from a video would be good, because it will move (and you can wait till another animal assumes that pose you started). Sticks for legs / arms, balls for head + arm attachment location + ribcage + leg attachment location
(1 - 3) medium lay ins and 3 quarters (20 mins ish): on top of fast lay in, get facial feature placement down, flesh out limbs. do as many until you feel comfortable with trying 3 quarters view. try a rendered 3 quarters if comfortable enough with 3 quarters and enough time.
Good Animals to Cover:
Flamingo (start with this and master it, good example for ball and string method)
Kangaroo
Cassowary
Iguana / other large lizards
Zebra
Giraffe
In general animals with a very distinct shape, not "fluffy" (big ball of fluff obscuring body structure) or fat/round/cute...want to be able to tell what they are by silhouette
For regular excercises:
- Lines: Good, keeping both to a page so you can focus on animals. As long as you keep doing them every day.
- Cylinders + Boxes: Do some form intersections and work that into your excercises instead of basic boxes and cylinders? Or combine those two to one page and do another page of form intersections
- Forms: Instead of the ones you're doing now, do some form dissections
(just giving you some more advanced regular excercises to try out, that I haven't seen you try yet)
For animals:
I think you should instead be doing 1 page of animals, all of the same animal in diff poses. ex. 1 page of all flamingos.
And instead of setting a time limit of 1 min, progress like this
(2 - 7) lay ins - ball and string / fast lay in only (10 mins total): focus on accurate placement of elements relative to others and accurate measurement (height / width) + angles.....do as many as you need to until you feel like you've got the proportions down, as fast as you can. esp. from a video would be good, because it will move (and you can wait till another animal assumes that pose you started). Sticks for legs / arms, balls for head + arm attachment location + ribcage + leg attachment location
(1 - 3) medium lay ins and 3 quarters (20 mins ish): on top of fast lay in, get facial feature placement down, flesh out limbs. do as many until you feel comfortable with trying 3 quarters view. try a rendered 3 quarters if comfortable enough with 3 quarters and enough time.
Good Animals to Cover:
Flamingo (start with this and master it, good example for ball and string method)
Kangaroo
Cassowary
Iguana / other large lizards
Zebra
Giraffe
In general animals with a very distinct shape, not "fluffy" (big ball of fluff obscuring body structure) or fat/round/cute...want to be able to tell what they are by silhouette