Everything is going alright I guess, havent done much in my sketchbook, been busy with studies and work. The box exercise is not only limited to cubes, rectangular ones are welcome as well. You can read about it here https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes
He recommends also to use colored pens to see where your vanishing points lead up to see where you screwed up. I just need to do better ghosting and planning when putting my lines on the paper, that's why they are off.
From what I've been told, when starting with anatomy to stay away from Hampton and Bridgeman because they focus on more abstract shapes of the figure instead of focusing on muscles and more detail. So that's why I've been reading Huston and looking at Bryan Lee's videos. I find Loomis easier, but Lee has some nice details on flowing lines that go through the shape of the face. Reminds me a bit of Reily's method.
So yeah, will do more observational studies, proportion stuff and head studies as well as doing boxes and Huston. So I've put a lot on my plate, hope it doesn't burn me out.
Might as well update this before the holidays, going to move onto lesson 2 of Drawabox and work on more portraits as well as read through the torso section of Huston.
I think if you think about those big value shapes for a while, it'll help your lines since, i imagine if we added the values of the photos youre copying, they wouldnt map correctly over those lines. Also try to find references that have a very clear and bold light pattern so you can more easily discern what youre getting right by squinting, and evaluating the overall tones and shapes
Oh wow, I'm back I think. Sorry for the monthly long absence? I've been using Discord to post some of my work on there. but I think I could still post some of my work here. Still working on faces and studies, will post more in the near future hopefully. Hoping ya'll are staying safe.
Thanks, yeah I was posting in it, it seems dead, but only a bit more than this place tbh. Anyway, some more studies and some form of character and monster designs!
Nice updates. I'm particularly impressed with how much better the faces look in your studies compared to the reference photos, some great construction there. Keep it going!
Your skull is more foward facing than your reference you can see this by locating the middle line that cross the skull.Was it intentional?But i am more interest by what were the intention.I think perhaps you lost some of the accuracy and patience and gone to fast into value.
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Remember the spine goes into the hole of the skull and theres a whole complex network of tendons and joints that put all that together which is worth studying, it'd add a lot of believability to your stuff even if it just ends up moving some of your heads over a couple inches.
I'd also suggest trying to ink a few things, get a good brush with an ideal sensitivity and try to simplify your shapes, omit lines and use a heavy dark color to make things pop and show depth. Charles Dana Gibson is a personal favorite ;)
So, big update sorta, mostly studies... Actually all studies but it's good to get them done.
@Fedodika: Yeah, I've been still trying to figure out head shapes and sizes, it's kind of difficult when it varies from person to person. I've been using Bryan Lee's methods for a while now.
The Gibsons study turned out a bit sloppy, might do another one later, also not really a fan of the proportions and some design elements of my squirrel character, plan on redoing part of it for next time.
The pain of drawing a women from this angle.Curve can prove to be tricky to see properly my advise is try to flip the canvas from time to time to fight how you see thing or take a pause and come back sometime it necessary before moving a piece further.I think it generally good to avoid drawing a long study in one sitting.You can try to study other thing in the mean time but i would argue the brain as to be switch to a passive task so that it can really be refresh completely.But some it not necessarly that you leak the eye the see thing as they are but it a question of how you handle you tool some artist are of the school of rotating the canva will other focus mostly on which joint your drawing for to help the range on position your able to obtain.
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The journey of an artist truly begin when he can learn from everyone error.
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Lame but kind of big update. Just found Proko's anatomy course and started it. So mostly anatomy stuff, need to work on my perspective and ellipses. Also did some style studies of Steven Gordon and Phil Bourassa, trying to get a feel on how to stylize certain aspects. Might do a Leyendecker study next week.
Small update, more Proko stuff and some studies of various artists like Gibson, Leyendecker and Frank Cho. Going to be doing more in the coming days/weeks/months. So far, shoulder bones are a pain like the placement of scapula and clavicle and how they connect., so right now struggling to get those right, same with pelvis although not as much.
(08-26-2020, 12:30 PM)Demon Lizardman Wrote: Small update, more Proko stuff and some studies of various artists like Gibson, Leyendecker and Frank Cho. Going to be doing more in the coming days/weeks/months. So far, shoulder bones are a pain like the placement of scapula and clavicle and how they connect., so right now struggling to get those right, same with pelvis although not as much.
Cool sketchbook! It's like all of those great sketchbooks that used to be on conceptart.org back in the day.
Great work!
