02-10-2016, 10:09 AM
I. LIVING STATUES
@DQ_Nick Thanks for looking through my sb! yeah those perspective studies were fun to do altough i did go back and study some more perspectice stuff always want to gain more knowledge.
@JyonnyNovice Thanks for the suggestion defiantely something i was thinking about ecpecially for the final piece!
Today was a failure,mostly due to poor time managment and other distractions ill get into more indepth.
And when this happens ill try to analyze why and learn from it so..
Started with gestures those went fine.
Then i decided to do a drawing from life since everyone should do it as often as they can! picked up a frog figurine and went for it.
i think it failed on multiple levels bad proportion lay in ( slightly off) bad linedrawing which i tried to save with shading failed at that too.But most important i copied shape for shape, and that lead onto some thinking which became another problem a habit that sometimes ruins my productivity...
And that habit is "paralysis via analysis" its when i try to understand something ( in this case how to get clean linework)
and i kept looking at pointless tutorials,brushes, software etc. zoomed in on good drawings and in the end i came to a conclussion which was in my head all along. DRAWING IS NOT ABOUT GOOD LINES ITS ABOUT CONVEYING A SENSE OF FORM AND MASS and gesture to a certain extent.Sadly i didint save all the attempts of getting the "clean lines" but it was pointless anyway, and now that ive written it here ill try not to waste my time like this anymore. here is the finished ( not really) sketch.
So How can i solve this problem? Simple. I will do what i should been doing all along constructing everything with basic geometric shapes ( cube sphere etc.) and use that as a basis for picture making instead of having an uncertain system of bits of construction and bits of copying shapes, ill start with shapes and move on to 2d shapes to get more details.
On the other hand im facing difficulty getting the same amount of accuracy when drawing with shapes ( mostly talking about life drawing) or when i construct a portrait it seems to be way off then. But i was assured i just need to practice it and it will get easier.And here i did a very quick ( 15 minute) sketch by constructing with only shapes and it seems even this rough it still has a sense of mass and form so i think im on the right path here so from now ill work this way.
In conclusion
No more "paralysis via analysis"
Ill use basic forms as a basis to everything i do.
If im coming to the wrong ideas here please let me know, i went down these kind of rabitt holes before and came out with nothing so wouldnt want burn the wrong ideas (thats kind of subjective) into my head.
@DQ_Nick Thanks for looking through my sb! yeah those perspective studies were fun to do altough i did go back and study some more perspectice stuff always want to gain more knowledge.
@JyonnyNovice Thanks for the suggestion defiantely something i was thinking about ecpecially for the final piece!
Today was a failure,mostly due to poor time managment and other distractions ill get into more indepth.
And when this happens ill try to analyze why and learn from it so..
Started with gestures those went fine.
Then i decided to do a drawing from life since everyone should do it as often as they can! picked up a frog figurine and went for it.
i think it failed on multiple levels bad proportion lay in ( slightly off) bad linedrawing which i tried to save with shading failed at that too.But most important i copied shape for shape, and that lead onto some thinking which became another problem a habit that sometimes ruins my productivity...
And that habit is "paralysis via analysis" its when i try to understand something ( in this case how to get clean linework)
and i kept looking at pointless tutorials,brushes, software etc. zoomed in on good drawings and in the end i came to a conclussion which was in my head all along. DRAWING IS NOT ABOUT GOOD LINES ITS ABOUT CONVEYING A SENSE OF FORM AND MASS and gesture to a certain extent.Sadly i didint save all the attempts of getting the "clean lines" but it was pointless anyway, and now that ive written it here ill try not to waste my time like this anymore. here is the finished ( not really) sketch.
So How can i solve this problem? Simple. I will do what i should been doing all along constructing everything with basic geometric shapes ( cube sphere etc.) and use that as a basis for picture making instead of having an uncertain system of bits of construction and bits of copying shapes, ill start with shapes and move on to 2d shapes to get more details.
On the other hand im facing difficulty getting the same amount of accuracy when drawing with shapes ( mostly talking about life drawing) or when i construct a portrait it seems to be way off then. But i was assured i just need to practice it and it will get easier.And here i did a very quick ( 15 minute) sketch by constructing with only shapes and it seems even this rough it still has a sense of mass and form so i think im on the right path here so from now ill work this way.
In conclusion
No more "paralysis via analysis"
Ill use basic forms as a basis to everything i do.
If im coming to the wrong ideas here please let me know, i went down these kind of rabitt holes before and came out with nothing so wouldnt want burn the wrong ideas (thats kind of subjective) into my head.