02-12-2015, 03:46 AM
@Adam Lina
yeah, you're right. The head's too big. =3= thanks for the comment...!
Yeah yeah, for sure -- I love using reference, but ultimately it's my goal to absorb enough information especially for human figures that I can do interesting and convincing stuff without having to use it much, and because this one just kinda ended up being without strong reference I think it serves as a nice guage for how well I'm (not) doing that. U_U ideally I like to work from strong reference especially for age and posing, but I've found it pretty difficult to find good search terms for 7 year old girls... Not many people are uploading really useful photos of that kind, that I could find. The best search term I've been using is different grades and sports teams, but the poses aren't very useful so I did pen sketches and took down proportion notes and was trying to fake it... eugh.
I'm not going to bore with too much more of a ramble, except that I have a teacher who heavily stresses good reference and not frankensteinkng parts together, because the human body has very specific rythms that change with the slightest shift in position, and as I've been trying to work more from photos (albeit not super hitting the mark) I'm really seeing that a lot and frankensteiing or imaginative drawing almost always missenthe mark and looks off (not necessarily just in my work), and I'm feeling the same way even about things like cloth.
In any case, I always open up reference for some things like material, I definitely didn't do enough for this piece but I feel like I can't implement loose refernce super well right now, either, and even if I'm looking at it it won't necessarily read in the drawing... My process for this piece was/is bad, but it's what I default to on most things I have to do, I think. U_U hmmm.
Thanks for the thoughts, Adam
yeah, you're right. The head's too big. =3= thanks for the comment...!
Yeah yeah, for sure -- I love using reference, but ultimately it's my goal to absorb enough information especially for human figures that I can do interesting and convincing stuff without having to use it much, and because this one just kinda ended up being without strong reference I think it serves as a nice guage for how well I'm (not) doing that. U_U ideally I like to work from strong reference especially for age and posing, but I've found it pretty difficult to find good search terms for 7 year old girls... Not many people are uploading really useful photos of that kind, that I could find. The best search term I've been using is different grades and sports teams, but the poses aren't very useful so I did pen sketches and took down proportion notes and was trying to fake it... eugh.
I'm not going to bore with too much more of a ramble, except that I have a teacher who heavily stresses good reference and not frankensteinkng parts together, because the human body has very specific rythms that change with the slightest shift in position, and as I've been trying to work more from photos (albeit not super hitting the mark) I'm really seeing that a lot and frankensteiing or imaginative drawing almost always missenthe mark and looks off (not necessarily just in my work), and I'm feeling the same way even about things like cloth.
In any case, I always open up reference for some things like material, I definitely didn't do enough for this piece but I feel like I can't implement loose refernce super well right now, either, and even if I'm looking at it it won't necessarily read in the drawing... My process for this piece was/is bad, but it's what I default to on most things I have to do, I think. U_U hmmm.
Thanks for the thoughts, Adam