04-10-2017, 01:33 PM
Voodoo: Muehehe thanks man, I mean, when it really boils down to it, the very core of what we're doing is drawing straight lines and boxes and stuff. And if I can't draw those things well, everything else is going to be skewed. Say I want to check the perspective of a drawing I made, and I draw a box around it, well if that box is skewed, my perception of the right perspective will also be skewed. After doing just a little of this, I see so many obvious mistakes in both my work and that of amateurs (like myself.)
I don't think of it as starting over, it's more like learning to (finally) play in time on a musical instrument after learning tons of songs and developing a rich library of information. You can impress people at a party, but putting it down on record isn't going to impress anyone important if you can't tap your foot to it. Oh and I looked at your stuff and I like you're putting down a lot of thoughts. Just keep drilling those basic exercises man. Try to take one drawing in one position and do it several times, just try to make it a little better each time. I think that gets you further than doing a ton of different ones.
Artloader: Yea I remember watching Han's work a few years ago and I thought, "well who can't figure this out? I mean he's just drawing circles." I really wished I would have took it seriously, but no I wanted to paint like the pros and have really vibrant values, textures and colors. And I think I learned a ton about that, but nobody really cares if the drawing isn't solid. It's something I've had to come to terms with over time, that I was presented with two paths of study, the painting, and the drawing, and I picked the less employable one to walk down for a very long period of time lel.
Sooo, did a bunch of cartoon studies today and about 160 cylinders, and you can really see how sloppy and skewed they are, but I'm really struggling and trying. I think I did a fine job on the lines connecting the cylinders but I and totally fudging the elipses on like one side, and drawing the axis lines are pretty sloppy too. Owell, Try to do some more right tomorrow!
I don't think of it as starting over, it's more like learning to (finally) play in time on a musical instrument after learning tons of songs and developing a rich library of information. You can impress people at a party, but putting it down on record isn't going to impress anyone important if you can't tap your foot to it. Oh and I looked at your stuff and I like you're putting down a lot of thoughts. Just keep drilling those basic exercises man. Try to take one drawing in one position and do it several times, just try to make it a little better each time. I think that gets you further than doing a ton of different ones.
Artloader: Yea I remember watching Han's work a few years ago and I thought, "well who can't figure this out? I mean he's just drawing circles." I really wished I would have took it seriously, but no I wanted to paint like the pros and have really vibrant values, textures and colors. And I think I learned a ton about that, but nobody really cares if the drawing isn't solid. It's something I've had to come to terms with over time, that I was presented with two paths of study, the painting, and the drawing, and I picked the less employable one to walk down for a very long period of time lel.
Sooo, did a bunch of cartoon studies today and about 160 cylinders, and you can really see how sloppy and skewed they are, but I'm really struggling and trying. I think I did a fine job on the lines connecting the cylinders but I and totally fudging the elipses on like one side, and drawing the axis lines are pretty sloppy too. Owell, Try to do some more right tomorrow!
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
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Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]