11-16-2019, 06:56 AM
Hey there,
it's cool to see that you revived your sketchbook after your long break.
You said you felt like your shading was making your drawings look messy. Something that might help with that is taking more care to decide where you really want to place your shadow shapes and being careful not to shade outside of those areas. At the moment you're mixing up the difference between shadow values and just subtle differences in form or local value. You can make life easier on yourself by grouping up the values. For example saying everything that is in the light is one value everything in shadow is a clearly different value and then making sure not to let those two mix together.
Ehh i hope my explanation was understandable... if not feel free to ask.
I attached a quick draw-over of your portrait and just erased your shading in areas that are actually being hit by light. I think it reads more clearly now.
it's cool to see that you revived your sketchbook after your long break.
You said you felt like your shading was making your drawings look messy. Something that might help with that is taking more care to decide where you really want to place your shadow shapes and being careful not to shade outside of those areas. At the moment you're mixing up the difference between shadow values and just subtle differences in form or local value. You can make life easier on yourself by grouping up the values. For example saying everything that is in the light is one value everything in shadow is a clearly different value and then making sure not to let those two mix together.
Ehh i hope my explanation was understandable... if not feel free to ask.
I attached a quick draw-over of your portrait and just erased your shading in areas that are actually being hit by light. I think it reads more clearly now.