02-12-2016, 05:45 AM
Even if you don't get where you want doing the primitive construction approach, I think you will gain a lot from it still. That guy with the gas mask is already looking loads better.
From the character design course on Schoolism, Stephen Silver is constantly going back and forth between construction and shapes. He starts with silhouettes, breaks it into cool shapes, gets the construction solid around the shapes (which ends up changing the shapes), then looks at the shapes again, then pushes and edits it, checks construction, looks some more at the shapes etc. Same with drawing from life, I think starting off with primitives then designing the shapes on top is a good way. It's a constant back and forth - shapes make it look cool while the construction makes it look believable / credible. Those artists who look like they are just diving in and drawing shapes have got that primitive construction thinking really intuitive so they kind of don't need to consciously think about it (some of them never built stuff from primitives, they just developed it from hours upon hours of observation drawings from life drawing and such). For us who're still learning, and don't want to spend years doing still life, doing pure primitive based stuff will build that intuition. (sorry that rambled on longer than intended)
By the way, the most recent statue design is looking really cool, maybe play up the curves on his forearm pieces to contrast with all the straights.
From the character design course on Schoolism, Stephen Silver is constantly going back and forth between construction and shapes. He starts with silhouettes, breaks it into cool shapes, gets the construction solid around the shapes (which ends up changing the shapes), then looks at the shapes again, then pushes and edits it, checks construction, looks some more at the shapes etc. Same with drawing from life, I think starting off with primitives then designing the shapes on top is a good way. It's a constant back and forth - shapes make it look cool while the construction makes it look believable / credible. Those artists who look like they are just diving in and drawing shapes have got that primitive construction thinking really intuitive so they kind of don't need to consciously think about it (some of them never built stuff from primitives, they just developed it from hours upon hours of observation drawings from life drawing and such). For us who're still learning, and don't want to spend years doing still life, doing pure primitive based stuff will build that intuition. (sorry that rambled on longer than intended)
By the way, the most recent statue design is looking really cool, maybe play up the curves on his forearm pieces to contrast with all the straights.