03-14-2018, 02:13 PM
Voodoo: Well that's the nice fuckin thing someone has said to me in a while so thank you brother i really appreciate it :,)
Tyger: I thought about this today and, the reason someone would do an imagination thing is to test and find what they dont know. This may sound contradictory, but i know what i'm missing, so im just filling in these huge gaps i've accepted i have by working through reference.
I know i struggle with feature placement, I know i struggle with structure and not skewing my drawings, so that's what i'll work on till i can get it right with reference, then I'll test from imagination once i know i can do it right with reference. I wanna just cut the crap and have a nice foundation in place before i get back to drawing things from my head. I could end up like Proko's Kangaroo vid, but hey if i can make some nice portraits in the meantime, i wont mind at all (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4-2HRHaHI).
Perhaps next year after this training i can fuck around again and experiment with style and color, i could see that as realistic. That and doing caricature in public is a nice way to apply these concepts in a timed, heavily stylized situation.
Even if i were to sketch from imagination, i wouldn't want to limit myself by just doing it 100%, i mean why not have reference or other artists work for inspiration? Seems plain stupid, everything you draw is based on reality, even super imaginative guys like Bobby Chiu, Feng Zhu, still have ref nearby to fuel ideas and save time.
Gotta be Kim Jung Gi tho ;)
So i got my first traditional commission today :) gonna do a bulldog portrait for a woman i met downtown on newsprint. I was skeptical about using this paper, but then i remembered Bradwynn Jones frames and sells his newsprint drawings, so i should be alright. It's weird im more concerned about the medium at this point than the technical part of the drawing lol.
This 3hr bulldog is a practice, not the commission, a study from my mentor Heather Lenefsky. Never thought I'd be drawing dogs, but hey why not, I can enjoy drawing most things at this point :) Also the ears took about 2hrs on the right (photo of cast) and 30 mins for the left ones by jeff
Tyger: I thought about this today and, the reason someone would do an imagination thing is to test and find what they dont know. This may sound contradictory, but i know what i'm missing, so im just filling in these huge gaps i've accepted i have by working through reference.
I know i struggle with feature placement, I know i struggle with structure and not skewing my drawings, so that's what i'll work on till i can get it right with reference, then I'll test from imagination once i know i can do it right with reference. I wanna just cut the crap and have a nice foundation in place before i get back to drawing things from my head. I could end up like Proko's Kangaroo vid, but hey if i can make some nice portraits in the meantime, i wont mind at all (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4-2HRHaHI).
Perhaps next year after this training i can fuck around again and experiment with style and color, i could see that as realistic. That and doing caricature in public is a nice way to apply these concepts in a timed, heavily stylized situation.
Even if i were to sketch from imagination, i wouldn't want to limit myself by just doing it 100%, i mean why not have reference or other artists work for inspiration? Seems plain stupid, everything you draw is based on reality, even super imaginative guys like Bobby Chiu, Feng Zhu, still have ref nearby to fuel ideas and save time.
Gotta be Kim Jung Gi tho ;)
So i got my first traditional commission today :) gonna do a bulldog portrait for a woman i met downtown on newsprint. I was skeptical about using this paper, but then i remembered Bradwynn Jones frames and sells his newsprint drawings, so i should be alright. It's weird im more concerned about the medium at this point than the technical part of the drawing lol.
This 3hr bulldog is a practice, not the commission, a study from my mentor Heather Lenefsky. Never thought I'd be drawing dogs, but hey why not, I can enjoy drawing most things at this point :) Also the ears took about 2hrs on the right (photo of cast) and 30 mins for the left ones by jeff
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]