11-01-2013, 02:36 PM
pnate: Thanks! I really need to get back into painting soon...I've been devoting all of my focus on figure drawing of late. Probably need a good balance of the two.
I watched a recording of an older Dave Rapoza livestream, and found out he mostly just painted RL fruit (still-lifes) in the early days for practice. It probably doesn't need to get more complicated than that. Think I might buy a lamp and start drawing/painting from stuff on my desk.
After I got frustrated with my last upload, I determined I needed to go back to what my art professor taught me - relationship lines, and the frequent comparisons to the lines I'm making to other lines to measure things out. Not only that, but negative space, and just general measuring angles with a pencil or tablet.
At the end of the day, I'm assuming the idea of "proportions" is about the same as the idea of "measuring". Hence the whole "8 heads" concept and where the nipples/navel/crotch/etc line up. The problem I find with measuring heads is that it's only applicable to so many poses - throw in foreshortening and everything becomes a nightmare. Which is why I'm using relationship lines/negative space as well.
Anyway, I spent most of my figure drawings today doing measuring. Still would like to get into drawing skeletons and possibly drawing anatomy over them (which I've just recently compiled an anki deck with the origin/insertion points).
Also, I'm reducing the sizes of my images, because while I always want to work in large dimensions, it's...pretty pointless for simple sketches.
I watched a recording of an older Dave Rapoza livestream, and found out he mostly just painted RL fruit (still-lifes) in the early days for practice. It probably doesn't need to get more complicated than that. Think I might buy a lamp and start drawing/painting from stuff on my desk.
After I got frustrated with my last upload, I determined I needed to go back to what my art professor taught me - relationship lines, and the frequent comparisons to the lines I'm making to other lines to measure things out. Not only that, but negative space, and just general measuring angles with a pencil or tablet.
At the end of the day, I'm assuming the idea of "proportions" is about the same as the idea of "measuring". Hence the whole "8 heads" concept and where the nipples/navel/crotch/etc line up. The problem I find with measuring heads is that it's only applicable to so many poses - throw in foreshortening and everything becomes a nightmare. Which is why I'm using relationship lines/negative space as well.
Anyway, I spent most of my figure drawings today doing measuring. Still would like to get into drawing skeletons and possibly drawing anatomy over them (which I've just recently compiled an anki deck with the origin/insertion points).
Also, I'm reducing the sizes of my images, because while I always want to work in large dimensions, it's...pretty pointless for simple sketches.