Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Nice amount of new art! I can tell that you have really been on your grind!

Your faces are very expressive and read clearly! I also think you have a nice sense of facial anatomy and anatomy overall. The biggest things I see that you could work on is placing objects in 3D space and posing your characters. Sometimes, some of your drawings seem a bit flat, and without thought put into where the shape would actually be placed in a 3D space. My suggestion is that you try to read up a bit on perspective, for example, the Scott Robertson books! Studying them should yield good art gains!

Hi Zorrentos, thanks for stopping by! That's good to know, I'm trying to do more than the 'pretty girl looking bored'. It's needed especially if I want to illustrate stories. I've been looking at references and think Kevin Maguire is the don when it comes to facial expressions. Yeah, that's something I'm trying to practice, but sometimes I'm just not sure how to do it. Perspective is sooo hard. It's the reason I HATE drawing feet. I have 'perspective made easy', but I deffo want to look into the Robertson book and 'Sketching- The Basics'. Books not just for concept artists, but also product designers.

This is a project 10 years in the making. I had the idea of drawing posters based on the different 'Punk' genres, i.e. Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Dieselpunk, but I was scared in case it looked bad/using references, but I actively did now!. 



Bonus points for off perspective and the 'Diesel' girl being out of scale. I had fun with these, even though it took ages. I want to colour them. 

Here is a redraw of: 
This time with the use of references. 



A girl drawn for my university's 'Creative Writing journal'. The theme is 'The Book of Water'. I'm not sure how well it reads, whether it looks like the pattern of water, or just a pattern.