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wow, I'm just loving your progress on portraits!
I have nothing to critic, but something that helped me alot was after many portraits from photos I decided to try a self portrait in front a mirror and it was a huge challenge and great experience, i learned a lot!!
For sure you will too!!
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Hey thanks guys! :)
Rosolino! That's a great idea, I should do some self portraits for sure! Thanks for the suggestion and the kind words. :)
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OOh, nice animal studies... have you tried doing them in the boxes and planes style you studied your human figures?
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Thanks mate! No, not yet! But I surely will once I dive a bit deeper into animal studies.
This week I've been working on perspective (Robertson etc) and will spend the next week on it as well. I'm doing it mostly traditionally so not much to share until then. :P
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wow your stuff looks awesome ! I'd love to see more of your progress! Keep it up
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Hey Lale, is it the mechanics of it that wears you down?
I used to feel worn down by that stuff... I mean like, I draw out a house, spinning the page, drawing a line, spinning the page, drawing etc etc, then it's like... I want to put a window there... I need to spin / draw like 20 times to add all the frame and protruding bits etc etc... it feels so long and tiring. Then I want to add a door... same process over and over. I don't feel like that anymore, I wouldn't say I'm too much quicker at it now, since if I go too fast I end up drawing inaccurate lines, but I guess that whole mechanical process of spinning and drawing has become more automated, so I don't really notice it so much, and can think more about the fun stuff. If that's the same for you, it should pass and get more fun - it shouldn't take so long either, only a few of those long careful building constructions and it should feel less of a burden (although doing really complex repeated details on a cathedral or something... that's a whole other level of monotony, I don't really know if that stuff can ever be as fun as more free, organic drawing - I guess doing it well and getting a really nice result is the payoff for going through something like that and should make the next time feel less of a struggle, since you can be confident the result will look nice). Hope that helps ^^
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@Grotessive: Thank you! ^^
@ Jyonny: HEy buddy, thanks a lot! Yeah it helps indeed! I guess you're right.. It's all about pushing that "butt moment" in the beginnings of learning a new process... It's very tiring but I have to suck it up and hopefully I'll end up having a bit o fun in these! As Riley suggested, maybe I should try to some sort of "House of my Dreams" or simply do a scene and put a building of that kind in it.. the final goal is that I can finally use perspective in my drawings more and have more complex backgrounds and not be as scared to draw buildings when I need to! :)
Thanks for the support! Means a lot!
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Oh... I hate buildings and machines, and all that 'cos perspective on them is hard... but it's good to challenge yourself and expand your skill set. So don't give up! Also nice sketchbooks!
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perspective can be very boooring........ very
very boring..
just keep pushing till it makes fun our you just don't feel anything anymore!!1111 8[D
or something like that
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Hahahaa thanks Niko! "until you don't feel anything anymore" xD Exactly. The pain! :D
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Heya there, Lale! I'd say you're doing a good job on the perspective studies (well, you seem to be ahead of me at least). Just a question-what resources are you using to study perspective? I mentioned it before on Skype, but another resource I can recommend if you've not tried it yet is Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Norling. It's very straight to the point and gives some exercises that can actually be quite fun (at least in my view) when you get into them.
Anyway, keep up those good studies!
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Hey Dec! Thanks a lot! Hmm yeah you're right, I should check him out! :) I use Scott Robertson and Israel Carrion's exercises as my study bases. Although i'm still not feelign brave enough to read ALL Robertson's book (or understand it at least xD)
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wow the portrait made my jaw drop.
what is your process in this?
do you start a line sketch? how do you go about color?
how many brushes you use?
sorry if i asked too much. cant really crit anything , cos they already look all well done!
