07-10-2015, 03:28 AM
(07-09-2015, 08:32 PM)KurtJeremy Wrote: would you recommend anything with life drawing? cos unfortunately i dont have the luxury to go to a life drawing class right now. can you suggest anything to practice at the moment in using pencil/charcoals to get good at seeing forms?Sorry to hijack your thread, Yang, but I had a suggestion for Kurt I wanted to share real quick: for life drawings, if it's not too weird, try asking friends to pose for you (not nude, of course!). If they're impatient, that's ok too-- you'll learn to quickly capture gesture, pose, and general form. Either way, you win!
To get good at seeing forms, my school used to make us use charcoal to draw simple 3D shapes (cubes, spheres, cones, whatever) and render it so it's almost a photograph. Another, more advanced, option is setting up objects and rendering them. Still lifes are boring as hell (for me), but there's no denying they're worth in learning to art. :D