11-30-2013, 09:05 AM
Hey there Toodles!
Awesome work man, love the little creature :D
I was browsing your thread during my lunch time at work, and I didnt had the time to properly comment. I hope this feedback is useful - It was given to me earlier this year, and it helped a lot with drawing and understanding shapes.
When we start drawing, we just stitch various details together and hope for it to form an image, but that usually leads to bad results.
You see - when like drawing faces. The problem is that drawing a face is like drawing the handle of a teacup. You can draw the most perfect handle for it, but if it doesn't attach right to the cup itself, the whole things falls apart.
So we need to keep in mind we are drawing a TEACUP, not a handle. Not the details. not an eye, a nose, we are drawing a head.
And by that we need to imply much more than a central axis of the head.
The way they taught me was to actually try and see the head inside a box. More than just axis of the face, every edge in the box should look good in relations to the other edges. So when you start looking what should align with what on the bigger picture, it starts to get much easier to visualize what is going wrong.
Let me try to illustrate this:
![[Image: PO-06.jpg]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1614971/Crimson%20Daggers%20sketchbook/PO-06.jpg)
You see how the 1st box is heavily distorted?
I tried to make the box look a bit more natural and "boxy". And I adjusted the head to feel boxy and make the edges properly align. I am not sure if It is fitting 100% because of you're seeing the down side of the nose and the eyes, you probably need to see under the chin too.
And that means we are seeing the bottom side of the box too. Everything need to be coherent.
You imply boxes with everything you draw that exists in space. Torso, arms, legs, noses, fingers, everything. If the bone parts doesn't read as a box your drawing will probably look off.
So the tip is to think this from the biggest shape possible to the smaller ones. The bigger ones will always dictate where the details will lie. Every body landmark Loomis and Proko are always talking about (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwt_wggUFHg) usually fits in a box, and they should read a nice, non-distorted box for it too feel dimensional :)
Hope this helps!
Keep it up! :D
Awesome work man, love the little creature :D
I was browsing your thread during my lunch time at work, and I didnt had the time to properly comment. I hope this feedback is useful - It was given to me earlier this year, and it helped a lot with drawing and understanding shapes.
When we start drawing, we just stitch various details together and hope for it to form an image, but that usually leads to bad results.
You see - when like drawing faces. The problem is that drawing a face is like drawing the handle of a teacup. You can draw the most perfect handle for it, but if it doesn't attach right to the cup itself, the whole things falls apart.
So we need to keep in mind we are drawing a TEACUP, not a handle. Not the details. not an eye, a nose, we are drawing a head.
And by that we need to imply much more than a central axis of the head.
The way they taught me was to actually try and see the head inside a box. More than just axis of the face, every edge in the box should look good in relations to the other edges. So when you start looking what should align with what on the bigger picture, it starts to get much easier to visualize what is going wrong.
Let me try to illustrate this:
You see how the 1st box is heavily distorted?
I tried to make the box look a bit more natural and "boxy". And I adjusted the head to feel boxy and make the edges properly align. I am not sure if It is fitting 100% because of you're seeing the down side of the nose and the eyes, you probably need to see under the chin too.
And that means we are seeing the bottom side of the box too. Everything need to be coherent.
You imply boxes with everything you draw that exists in space. Torso, arms, legs, noses, fingers, everything. If the bone parts doesn't read as a box your drawing will probably look off.
So the tip is to think this from the biggest shape possible to the smaller ones. The bigger ones will always dictate where the details will lie. Every body landmark Loomis and Proko are always talking about (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwt_wggUFHg) usually fits in a box, and they should read a nice, non-distorted box for it too feel dimensional :)
Hope this helps!
Keep it up! :D