Back to the basics

[darktiste]

I think the zombie piece show that you could use some practice when it come to foreshorten and estimating proportion when the body bend.

Gotta say i love the ink stuff but how is a zombie suppose to keep is ears? You know ears are most cartilage right?

[calebartist]

I think the zombie piece show that you could use some practice when it come to foreshorten and estimating proportion when the body bend.

Gotta say i love the ink stuff but how is a zombie suppose to keep is ears? You know ears are most cartilage right?

Most definitely! I'll keep that in mind with foreshortening and estimating proportions.

Since I'm also drawing directly in ink, I only decided to make it a more skeletal face "after" that part was drawn (basically drew the ear first), and since there is no erasing in ink, drawing over it would just ruin it haha, I thought about drawing over it with ink, but the pointy part of the ear was already sticking out. Thanks for the tips! We'll just sum him up as a weird zombie creature, with patches of skin still left and other parts rotting.

[darktiste]

You can make some short study of about 30min to 1hour of people sitting or sleeping but i wouldn't focus on the negative space or paint because it won't teach you about applying proportion in perspective i would approch this purely with lineart only. I would say you should focus on basic form such as cylinder and other basic construction to create basic mannequin. If you don't know any construction method you can apply the one use by loomis.

Some great exercise to ease yourself practicing foreshorten in perspective is to copy first what are on those page then apply those principle rather than to copy what you see here. So observation (figuring the rule)by breaking it down then applying the rule but making something new rather then only copying.

[calebartist]

You can make some short study of about 30min to 1hour of people sitting or sleeping but i wouldn't focus on the negative space because it won't teach you about applying proportion in perspective. I would say you should focus on basic form such as cylinder and other basic construction to create basic mannequin. If you don't know any construction method you can apply the one use by loomis.

Some great exercise to ease yourself practice foreshorten in perspective is to copy the Loomis

Will definitely start doing that, recently re-downloaded all his books (as well as Michael hampton's) so hopefully in conjunction they'll work. I studied them in the past, but I didn't study them critically enough or was too young at the time to put what I learned into actual practice, + just need to practice that more in general. Thanks!

[Jephyr]

A lot of impressive work you've shared here. Keep it up

[calebartist]

Thanks Jephyr! and will do, for the first time in years actually feels like I'm getting somewhere- or at least closer to where I'd like to be as an artist. But, there's still a long road ahead.

[calebartist]

Sorry for no Update!

Decided to take art a bit more seriously again, started taking courses from here. Much better than wandering like I have been. www.svslearn.com, this place has been fundamental in keeping me more in line with my goals, thankful for crimson daggers. Expect much more drawings in time to come.

[darktiste]

Sorry for no Update!

Decided to take art a bit more seriously again, started taking courses from here. Much better than wandering like I have been. www.svslearn.com, this place has been fundamental in keeping me more in line with my goals, thankful for crimson daggers. Expect much more drawings in time to come.

It amazing that the last thing you said was you had a long road ahead... and i think that what ultimately was where you fall off... you loose sight of what to do next and all that momentum correct me if i am wrong was lost that goal that seem so close became so far all of a sudden.

What class are you ''aiming for'' or taking?

Oh and before i leave if i can also make an other ''observation'' or share from my experience maybe the pattern of ''falling off'' as something to do with taking class and than being left on your own again... maybe i have some advise on that... if you think that speak to you...

Looking forward to seeing more from you.

[calebartist]

Honestly art has always made my life worth living, I just always lacked the confidence and especially talent necessary to truly make it. It's my 31st birthday today though but hopefully I can remain committed. I am also eager to hear what you have to say about not falling off. 

I'm just doing a subscription plan and started on the basic foundation course. Expect my traditional stuff to not be as clean because it's harder for me to draw sometimes, anyways here's something quick for a drawing upside down exercise and a digital portrait I meant to share last week. 

Heck maybe this sketchbook will last ten years as well like the one I made on conceptart.org. For now you'll just have to watch me shake off the rust a little, and regain my old discipline.

[darktiste]

Well not falling off is not a secret there as to be reward and celebration to the journey and finding support and continual interest in what we do isn't always organic sometime you got to put some wood in the fire one way or an other.

Consistency via accountability and a backbone to receiving positive feedback goes a long way not to be overcome by stagnation and have goal that drive one toward a continual stream of small victory that keep the momentum going.

Some of people do art simply because they enjoy it but how do they continue growing when the world is a giant distraction? You kind of have to reduce the noise of the world make yourself a quiet place and make the best out of your time and resource. Not many put enough effort or have the will to sacrifice there resource to assemble the condition to channel there creativity.


The problem often happen when we forget this

What do we buy excuse or do we value something? It not excuse if you don't want to sacrifice something it the measure of how much you value something.

Think of drawing as would you rather be... Drawing or Else if you can find way to ''shift'' what you do toward drawing than that mean you can ''find way to draw more''. But it also something that is ''dynamic'' what we do affect everything we do. When we do something we expend energy... sometime that energy exchange is positive sometime it negative... it not always gonna be a consistent clear picture to what bring positivity to were life so you have to be also conformable with not necessary perceiving positive result right away(or persistence in other way) a bit like someone who goes to the gym and want big muscle the next day... delaying gratification and enjoying ''the pain of growth''