10-26-2013, 08:01 PM
Yeah self portraits are awesome man, I started this journey doing self portraits everyday, after work and college and stuff. You'll learn a lot if you stick with them. I gave up at about 60 or something I think lol. There in my old sketchbook if your interested in seeing someone suck - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthr...p?t=207379
There's some great stuff here man, I love some of these speedies your doing. There's a crit I can offer you if you want?
Your compositions could perhaps use abit work. The action scenes seem abit static, maybe because of all the verticals in them. Try to avoid using straight up/ down lines and horizontal lines because you make things seem stiff and boring. Take that gun fight piece, the direction of the trees on the left and right, the foreground shooters back. It's kinda tough to explain :s Plus it's tough to tell the distance between the two fighters. A good book I highly recommend if you can get your hands on it is 'framed ink' It opened my eyes to what composition even was, I had no idea really till I got that book - http://www.amazon.com/Framed-Ink-Drawing...1933492953
As for the dragon piece, I think B makes most sense with your light set up but put the eye in there from A. I'd even go as far to say make the eye and teeth more prominent to draw focal attention.
Hope this helps man, despite what ive written above you've defiantly been improving since my last visit so be sure to keep doing what your doing. Just keep pushing harder and forcing your self get better by going outside your comfort zones and you can't go far wrong. Can't wait to see how much ass you've been kicking on my next visit! Keep it up man.
There's some great stuff here man, I love some of these speedies your doing. There's a crit I can offer you if you want?
Your compositions could perhaps use abit work. The action scenes seem abit static, maybe because of all the verticals in them. Try to avoid using straight up/ down lines and horizontal lines because you make things seem stiff and boring. Take that gun fight piece, the direction of the trees on the left and right, the foreground shooters back. It's kinda tough to explain :s Plus it's tough to tell the distance between the two fighters. A good book I highly recommend if you can get your hands on it is 'framed ink' It opened my eyes to what composition even was, I had no idea really till I got that book - http://www.amazon.com/Framed-Ink-Drawing...1933492953
As for the dragon piece, I think B makes most sense with your light set up but put the eye in there from A. I'd even go as far to say make the eye and teeth more prominent to draw focal attention.
Hope this helps man, despite what ive written above you've defiantly been improving since my last visit so be sure to keep doing what your doing. Just keep pushing harder and forcing your self get better by going outside your comfort zones and you can't go far wrong. Can't wait to see how much ass you've been kicking on my next visit! Keep it up man.