Nigelpik's sketchbook

[nigelpik]

Thanks a ton for the book recommendation, darktiste. I actually never heard about that one. Looks very useful, I'll definitely look into getting one.


I also started second drawabox lesson today, Organic forms.

First are the arrows. I messed up couple of them (got confused), and I marked those with X. Overall, though, I think it's a moderate success.




Now, organic jelly beans definitely went way better than boxes. At lest, that's what I like to think.





I also managed to do one sheet of dissections. I think it's a mixed bag. I choose all my textures from the first website with free textures that I found. I tried to choose a variety of stuff and take things that looked hard to do. Never have focused on textures in my drawings before, so that is something new to me.

For the first one, wrinkled paper is definitely something that I was dreading. It came out better than I was expecting, but it can't be called a success. I like popcorn, wood, and three bark. I  think those are relatively fine. Shingles and moss are complete failures, though.

For the second one, leave turned out to be a bad idea in a hindsight. Didn't really know what to do with it. I think, dried paint and lemon turned out okay. Brick wall looks ridiculously bad, should've thought that one through more. I also wasn't really able to capture marble texture. It definitely needs some shading.

For the third one, the sand is a complete failure, and meat doesn't look too hot either. Water droplets are spread too uniformly. I tried to add some small ones univenly to break the monotony, but I don't think it helped that much. Also, overall shape of the droplets is wrong, and I don't think they come off as water. I do think, wood planks ended up being okay.

Overall, definitely need to plan better before I draw, and pay more attention to the shape. This is the theme of the whole course so far for me. Need to start thinking before putting the lines. It's hard to stop yourself from doing stuff intuitively, when you're so used to it. With pencil, if I made a mistake, I can just erase it and do it again, but these ink pens don't allow that. Definitely see why they are recommended. Tomorrow gonna do some more dissections, and will try to make less mistakes.