Chastinet's Sketchbook

[Fedodika]

I remember so vividly, doing stacks of pages of these, like these whimsical impressions of an arm. You could probably go back in my early sketchbook and see these "practices" lol.

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...564/04.png

If you want it straight up here it is.


1. don't paint, in color, until you get drawing locked down solid.
2. If you do shade, have it be minimal, prove it shows an understanding of form. literally, dont spend more than 30 minutes shading anything until youre drawings are very very accurate, else the shading wont help it
3. learn very basic perspective/ ie drawabox.com
4. learn anatomy, prokos great for that, to the point you can draw nice limbs from imagination that would match a realistic chart or photo.
5. practice memory drawing, look at a reference, copy it, hide the reference, do it from memory, check the reference, it forces observation even if very little, youll notice a difference. 

I wasted a whooooole lotta time, visit my sketchbook, doing the stuff youre doing now:

Goofy faces from imagination
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...561/01.png
Sloppy, aimless drawings from reference drawings from anatomy books
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...563/03.png
Whimsical studies of limbs
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...565/05.png
Loose fleeting gesture drawings with no weight or structure
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...567/07.png
Long painted pieces that have no relation to any studies and have broken structure and gesture
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...o-cara.jpg
Goofy hour long speed paintings
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...0156/8.jpg


Find it all in Fedo's house of PAIN