Rick: Hey man really appreciate the paintover! Gave me an idea, i found this really colorful landscape photo with lots of natural light, gonna try and paint it up and finish it more since I'm not too great at really fleshing out landscapes :) Thanks again, I got what i wanted outta that study, so i never really finished it lol
I feel like I'm working a lot less now but getting more done; I suppose that's what you want right? It's all about asking yourself the right questions really, grinding without thinking doesn't get much done in this field anyways... At least I hope haha
Soo i went out to draw it and guess what? Tough and really frustrating, spent hours and hours erasing and looking at refs, just failing over and over getting very frustrated! :) Posing, need to do some of those studies tomorrow...
I only managed to get out these cruddy sketches with poses/anatomy i don't like
Lol, well I'll try to sort it out tomorrow, finally an idea i like!
Oh and if you need an excellent audiobook, guess what I've been listening to heheh
thx you two, hehe; the man with be my bitch one day :)
Man wasted a lot of time today, but managed to get in a little study and refine the lines a little; I'm kinda worried about putting the first stroke down, but you know, why not, gonna have to do it anyways
my eyes burn like fuck tho 4 real... I wish i could do more today
O man, o man! Why I haven't seen any of this on deviantart? This is some stellar stuff! Awesome progress! I very much enjoy those enviro pieces, they're really great! Keep up, I'll be posting my piece soon! :D
Dev: thanks bro haha, idk I'm not too proud of those enviros, but I'm glad you like em!
Well my practice came to a screeching halt yesterday morning when i woke up with a terrible muscle spasm in my upper back. I'm still feeling the effects today and it has made my whole body sore and weak. I guess it's just from all those years of bad posture really, i've got a new desk now that forces me to not slouch, and i think it'll help in the long run.
I'm doing everything i can to get back to work, using hot pads, creams, ice packs, trying to stretch though it hurts, and i feel like I'm recovering quickly. I hope this shit doesn't happen again, cuz it's a real bummer and cuts out a lot of work time :/
This is all i managed to get done today, as it hurts to sit down for over fifteen minutes; funny just when things start picking up for me, somethin else has to go wrong lolol
WIP, I'm trying to think of a way to make the background a little more vibrant or deep... That and I'm recovering well from my muscle spasm, just changing my desk arrangement and uhh I'm too tired to type lol
I know this has it's flaws, but it was a fantastic learning experience; I'm about 90% done, and yea i know some arms aren't quite in the right place and some collar bones are a little weird etc. but I like the finish i got on some of the materials, it's all 100% hand painted and just about entirely from imagination.
It's really inspired me to look more into things like Value Hierarchies, and really nailing down some things in anatomy. Drawings still everything yo, gonna hop back on that soon, but try to squeeze in some color studies here and there!
It's really and quick way to pick up a few things on finishing touches and color, so grab a random photo and try it out ;)
Also a portrait for a friend of my dads
Gonna be getting back to a lot of drawing and sticking to line and not resorting to value or anything to find a likeness, I'm tired o not being able to get a precise proportion measurement quickly; Hell I can't even get a precise measurement in the first place, so I'm gonna have to brave it out and get to the struggly wugglies <3
Okay, so check this out... I've realized that observation that i have currently is only so accurate at first. Like, within half an hour (not even 2 hrs), I am not able to make a face look proportionally accurate with a reference, which is sad in my opinion. I want to be able to do that ASAP. Like, right out the gate, put down marks that are just mind blowingly accurate to the reference.
So what I'm gonna try is to work on these two line drawings tomorrow, and try to just see more into the reference and try to compare more shapes and sizes more than I did today. I probably spent an hour and a half on the first and 3 hours on the second. So I just gotta bang through them slow drawings and measure shit out painstakingly until i can do it quick
You might want to do some thinking into what line drawing actually is. If you can't answer the question "Line = ?", then you won't be able to make an informed line drawing. If you just allow yourself to do everything on an intuitive level, you will not be able to work rationally or to build on a base of knowledge. An artistic methodology would allow you to have a predictable base to work from where knowledge can be added and built upon, but the more you mindlessly scribble around, the further away you go from something where you can genuinely learn new information. Just like how a scientific methodology gives one a fundamental premise to work from and tools to generate new information, art requires a methodology for itself.
alright guys, made a big discovery today... So i remembered an old Brad Rigney quote where he said, "Take a photo, and don't draw it, just stare at it for a few minutes and memorize it you know... Then put it away and try to draw it from memory." paraphrasing of course.
So i did just that and well, shit works, gonna do it some more
Most of these are 90% memory, then bringing in the reference to correct small things i may have missed at the end. last two are 100% imagination
I like the perspective and the rendering on those Soul Calibur girls.
And that Brad Rigney exercise sounds intriguing - it looks like it's really working for you if those last two were from imagination.
I noticed that you are using a lot of thin lines to indicate form in your sketches - maybe try doing that with a fatter brush - unless those are traditional pencil sketches in which case please disregard.
Keep it going with the hard work though - looking forward to more from you :).
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Artloader: hehe thx for the kind words man, they keep me goin on slow days <3; Yea, I'm still learnin the whole lineweight thing, but I guess psychologically i draw with thinner lines when I'm more confident and I used to draw with big thick coarse lines for whatever reason, idk why lol
So, this first one was a (mostly) memory drawing, but i got a lot of it wrong, and still it didn't turn out great. I then watched a schoolism video from fluhartey and that guy is good but he's boring AF to me; TBH there isn't really one Schoolism teacher i can bear to listen to; they're all great but just soo.... professional, it bores me to tears. Dave Rapoza is getting that way, i mean, he only swore like 4 or 5 times in his new tutorial.
I promise if i make it, I'm gonna make people sweat with anxiety and hang on the edge of their seat because I am a rebel rouser baby! I got plenty to be angry about that I'm sure will still be there after i can pay my way with art.
But anyways, while i was being a rebel today, i got the idea to draw a ton of boxes, maybe 15 pages worth; annnnnd probably gonna do a few more of those and cyllinders and stuff tomorrow. Not scannin em in cuz they look like complete ass :)
The last one is 100% imagination, quick thingie after the boxes.
aight, drew a lot of boxes today, literally googled "Boxes" and drew those, gonna do that more often lol. Some shit experiments and studies, moral of the story, drawin's hardd
