08-30-2016, 02:55 PM
I left you a crit on the painted face on fb. I agree with the other comments about how scribbly and random some of your non-form based lines appear. I don't think it looks good and I don't think it is a subjective thing. It looks amateurish, lazy, rushed and poorly-or-not-thought out. The most recent pencil sketch of the dude is way better and that shit is toned down, so I would go towards that way a bit more.
So not scribbling doesn't mean you can't have some dynamic stuff going on with your strokes, but yeah, WHY? is the question you want to have the answer to. When I ask that question of why with the scribbles, no positive answer comes up.
Check out this board of Toppi stuff I gathered. Look at how he uses lines in very dynamic non-standard and beautiful ways, but how they always help us understand the form as well. https://nz.pinterest.com/m0nkeybread/art...but-toppi/
I disagree about going back to more gestures. I think that will just support this careless speed drawing thing you have going (how long do those face sketches actually take?) and I think you should move away for a bit from anything that focuses on speed over care. Slow the fuck down! Many people have commented on how rushed everything looks, and while you are improving a little in some instances for the most part they still do so don't keep ignoring people on the comments about slowing down!
You have problems with form construction and perspective which are way more fundamental so focus on those more.
If you can draw any form in any perspective that's the big winner, it isn't really that hard to make something that flows and is dynamic.
Nice studies of the skulls btw. I like the lighting and perspective and form...still think you could spend a bit more time tofinish these properly since you are going most of the way to pulling off realism.
So not scribbling doesn't mean you can't have some dynamic stuff going on with your strokes, but yeah, WHY? is the question you want to have the answer to. When I ask that question of why with the scribbles, no positive answer comes up.
Check out this board of Toppi stuff I gathered. Look at how he uses lines in very dynamic non-standard and beautiful ways, but how they always help us understand the form as well. https://nz.pinterest.com/m0nkeybread/art...but-toppi/
I disagree about going back to more gestures. I think that will just support this careless speed drawing thing you have going (how long do those face sketches actually take?) and I think you should move away for a bit from anything that focuses on speed over care. Slow the fuck down! Many people have commented on how rushed everything looks, and while you are improving a little in some instances for the most part they still do so don't keep ignoring people on the comments about slowing down!
You have problems with form construction and perspective which are way more fundamental so focus on those more.
If you can draw any form in any perspective that's the big winner, it isn't really that hard to make something that flows and is dynamic.
Nice studies of the skulls btw. I like the lighting and perspective and form...still think you could spend a bit more time tofinish these properly since you are going most of the way to pulling off realism.