12-25-2020, 02:20 AM
@JyonnyNovice: Thanks for the tips on having another look at the original ref. to load up my short term memory - I tried that and it turns out I have a the memory span of a goldfish! My memory study looks nothing like the original! Oh well - I will persevere anyway as I feel it is good training for putting together a comic page. One thing I did gain from not looking at the original though is that it forced me to put my imagination muscles to use to fill in the gaps in my memory - I even had to do some research elsewhere - pretty much like any artist needs to do when they have gaps in their visual library I guess.
@chubby_cat: Thanks for the kind words and the thoughts - I think you are right - layers definitely give a massive advantage when working digitally - being able to adjust values, hues and saturation in such a controlled way should be a major advantage.
Slow progress on this study - cutting and pasting elements around like this gave me good practice at paying attention to perspective - for example making sure that the horizon-lines matched up etc ...
On the figure drawing of the warrior woman - I also played around with my construction process - usually I do a really detailed construction but this time I tried to do that in my head and only sketched in a few construction marks to begin with - to set the perspective and proportions and landmarks. I felt like this speeded up my process a bit but I'm not sure if it had a negative effect on the end result?
@chubby_cat: Thanks for the kind words and the thoughts - I think you are right - layers definitely give a massive advantage when working digitally - being able to adjust values, hues and saturation in such a controlled way should be a major advantage.
Slow progress on this study - cutting and pasting elements around like this gave me good practice at paying attention to perspective - for example making sure that the horizon-lines matched up etc ...
On the figure drawing of the warrior woman - I also played around with my construction process - usually I do a really detailed construction but this time I tried to do that in my head and only sketched in a few construction marks to begin with - to set the perspective and proportions and landmarks. I felt like this speeded up my process a bit but I'm not sure if it had a negative effect on the end result?
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