01-29-2016, 04:35 AM
There are many exercises described in many books, blog posts, and Youtube videos, and they all work. The only question you need to keep asking is, "How do I make my drawing/painting look 3D?" If you're drawing a fox head, and you have a plastic fox model to study ear shape and snout shape from, that's great! Do it over and over, and keep asking, "How do I make my drawing look and feel 3D like what I see?" If you don't have a plastic fox model, then this is when you have to think about which primitive shape represent the fox's ears or snout best, then find those objects to sketch, and keep sketching until you achieve that 3D feel and look.
You can't just do it once and be like, "I clocked in. Okay.". Look at what you produced. Is it good? Does it capture that 3D look and feel? If not, you have to do it again. Do a whole page, do a whole sketchbook if you have to. Any one specific technique or method will do, multiple ones will do too, but the best technique is repetition in pursuit of quality.
I need to do that same thing too. It's so much easier to know than to practice, lol! Earnest, respectful, arduous practice will get you where you want to be, no matter if it's art, job, social reformation, religion, girlfriend, etc etc.
You can't just do it once and be like, "I clocked in. Okay.". Look at what you produced. Is it good? Does it capture that 3D look and feel? If not, you have to do it again. Do a whole page, do a whole sketchbook if you have to. Any one specific technique or method will do, multiple ones will do too, but the best technique is repetition in pursuit of quality.
I need to do that same thing too. It's so much easier to know than to practice, lol! Earnest, respectful, arduous practice will get you where you want to be, no matter if it's art, job, social reformation, religion, girlfriend, etc etc.