razvanc-r's sketchbook dump

[Fedodika]

I think you're good at laying out formulas like in this for example

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...k02-01.png

It's a very well executed technical drawing, where it's clear where the vanishing points are and you understand how to make that image but I don't know if you understand it enough to like... create it on its own?

You can experiment on your tighter drawings and in the long run it will help you more because you have a nice foundation to work on, like yea you can experiment with color and texture all you want but what's important is if you can render the drawings you're making right now well. That is far more challenging and far more educational than scribbling about for a few minutes on some poorly drawn shapes.

You can scribble about and slap brushstrokes down on your tighter drawings instead on a new layer, or save a new file, try to light the scene realistically or correctly, and if the experiment goes well, hey you've got a nice tight piece to show for it!

These figures well...
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...-poses.png

They seem to be done very quickly, and the lines look confident and gestural which is a good start. try being more dilligent with them, spend more time making them look right instead of just having a bunch of them. I know from experience that sure if it looks like you're doing a lot people might pat you on the back, but the improvement and the painstaking time of struggling to just understand one thing at a time and make that look good goes a lot further.

So i'd reccomend pick one of these poses like 1 or five, something simple and flesh it out with your sense of anatomy. take your time on it and research, even start the drawing over or erase a lot, just try to make a good tight piece like the castle thing you drew. You might think the speedpaintings help to experiment but at this stage I think you should be acquiring hard knowledge from logic and method over reaching to the abstract for inspiration. You'll get to that point later in your career when you have the basics locked down tight.