04-25-2017, 02:10 PM
Hey neo, Yes they are! They've skyrocketed my linework in my caricature stuff. The shapes I draw are much fuller and concious with the form. Your mention of Silva and the like; yes that's important for people who have done what I'm doing now, properly, as they start from the beginning on the barebones fundamentals. I, on the otherhand, have for the past four years pretty much only done painted studies or characters from imagination; heeding very closely to their advice.
Hence, despite my flawed drawings, I have a decently developed understanding of color, value, texture, composition, style, and that sort of stuff. I agree with you, in that a month of this should really seal the deal, and I have more of a clear idea everyday what my little exercises will look like when I'm ready to slow down on em.
The stuff I draw with a thick marker or a charcoal pencil has very nice and bold lines, but not these ballpoint pens. I have a lot of issues with confidence and where to make the lines because pen is just hard, that and my shapes are mediocre. I don't draw from reference, but I know when my shapes look wrong because I see so many of them everyday, and I can go over them with lines to correct it exactly how I know it should look to be right. Everything should look even in that box that I put the cylinders in, or the lines to gauge the cylinders. I get a few percent closer everyday, so I know I'm not lost.
Everything I look at now, be it my own work or someone else, I think in terms of curves and proportions within the shapes. Like I'm slowly seeing those correct basic shapes and how vital they are to the impression of solidity and function given to a drawing. I hate that I never saw it until now, never appreciated it, was just so hypnotized by colors and textures.
I certainly need to grasp these shapes first because I already know a thing or two about anatomy and design, it's just the stuff I've done is skewed and therefore loses it's merrit subcionciously in the eyes of the viewer because of it. I see the logic in applying it to characters, but I've already done that so much, I mean I get it, just gotta drill it into the mind so I can use it. I totally understand how you would build anatomy and stuff out of these things, it's just when I go to apply it it still looks skewed, despite knowing where the muscles should go and their proportions. So I go right back to shapes drills.
Structure is my weakest muscle in the Dan Warren analogy. I'm like a weightlifter who has buffed up everything but his legs, and from the top up he looks cool, but when you see the rest of him, well, it's awkward. I've read every chapter in the book on art but chapter 1 which is the longest one. I could come up with analogies for this all day, Lol thanks for stopping by neo! :)
MOOOORE SCRATCHIES!! read a lot of The Mad Art of Caricature by Tom Richmond today, bout 1/3 through it, learning some very valuable tricks and insights!
I feel my shapes are getting slightly more accurate, but I need to focus more on the line weight and trying lighter lines, then adding heavier ones instead of just doing heavy ones.
Free PDF of that: https://vk.com/doc-54852533_320642789?dl...51b57f2fdc
Mood: http://colorquiz.com/results.php?code=m,...6,1&p=full
Hence, despite my flawed drawings, I have a decently developed understanding of color, value, texture, composition, style, and that sort of stuff. I agree with you, in that a month of this should really seal the deal, and I have more of a clear idea everyday what my little exercises will look like when I'm ready to slow down on em.
The stuff I draw with a thick marker or a charcoal pencil has very nice and bold lines, but not these ballpoint pens. I have a lot of issues with confidence and where to make the lines because pen is just hard, that and my shapes are mediocre. I don't draw from reference, but I know when my shapes look wrong because I see so many of them everyday, and I can go over them with lines to correct it exactly how I know it should look to be right. Everything should look even in that box that I put the cylinders in, or the lines to gauge the cylinders. I get a few percent closer everyday, so I know I'm not lost.
Everything I look at now, be it my own work or someone else, I think in terms of curves and proportions within the shapes. Like I'm slowly seeing those correct basic shapes and how vital they are to the impression of solidity and function given to a drawing. I hate that I never saw it until now, never appreciated it, was just so hypnotized by colors and textures.
I certainly need to grasp these shapes first because I already know a thing or two about anatomy and design, it's just the stuff I've done is skewed and therefore loses it's merrit subcionciously in the eyes of the viewer because of it. I see the logic in applying it to characters, but I've already done that so much, I mean I get it, just gotta drill it into the mind so I can use it. I totally understand how you would build anatomy and stuff out of these things, it's just when I go to apply it it still looks skewed, despite knowing where the muscles should go and their proportions. So I go right back to shapes drills.
Structure is my weakest muscle in the Dan Warren analogy. I'm like a weightlifter who has buffed up everything but his legs, and from the top up he looks cool, but when you see the rest of him, well, it's awkward. I've read every chapter in the book on art but chapter 1 which is the longest one. I could come up with analogies for this all day, Lol thanks for stopping by neo! :)
MOOOORE SCRATCHIES!! read a lot of The Mad Art of Caricature by Tom Richmond today, bout 1/3 through it, learning some very valuable tricks and insights!
I feel my shapes are getting slightly more accurate, but I need to focus more on the line weight and trying lighter lines, then adding heavier ones instead of just doing heavy ones.
Free PDF of that: https://vk.com/doc-54852533_320642789?dl...51b57f2fdc
Mood: http://colorquiz.com/results.php?code=m,...6,1&p=full
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
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]
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]