03-05-2018, 01:30 PM
Tygerson: eeh face gesture, ya i mean it could be helpful, but faces are all about symmetry so i think it'd best to learn the planes and structure pretty tight first; But I always appreciate you coming by muh dude ;)
Eristhe: Hey thanks! I'm really gonna lay into heads for at least until May or June just to make sure i get it down to where i dont struggle with basic lay ins and i can get things coherent and symmetrical. Im going to life drawing it and loving it, but every time i go to lay in a head on a figure it just totally fudges, so i need to at least get that worked out. But life drawing helps me not get behind on figures at least.
However after May or June im gonna hit figures super hard for the rest of the year since Im building up a good idea of exactly what i need to work on. Im gonna first for the head months go through Watts stuff with lots of copies of his work and rewatching his lay ins, and at least "watch" all his head videos to see where they go up into the later courses. Also gonna work from Loomis, and Hogarthes head drawing book which i just got and its fantastic, lots of weird and interesting forms to study in that.
Then for the figure months im gonna try and get all matessi's books on Force and copy the crap outta those and read his theories on gesture, then ill also do watts figure drawing course, as well as probably resub to NMA and go through Karl Gnass' course again since i learned a ton from that and still remember most of it at life drawing. I'll also see if i can get Proko's sexy anatomy stuff and learn to shade the muscles and indicate them well. And if I do all that i just might sort out all my bad drawing habits this year, and it'll be a lotta work, but it'll be worth it!
I wanna get so good at drawing that people online start asking me for advice/tips, that's when I'll know im getting somewhere. I'm gonna try to paint as little as i can this year and shade sparingly, but definitely when I feel like it since adding tone is the cheapest way to learn how to paint. I have NO IDEA what my portfolio will end up looking like and what even genre I'll be into at that point. But if i had to, I'd imagine at this point itll look fine arty but also illustrationy like Igor Sid, Deharme, or Cynthia Shepherd. But no promises, just the promise of improving and staying crazy ;)
Eristhe: Hey thanks! I'm really gonna lay into heads for at least until May or June just to make sure i get it down to where i dont struggle with basic lay ins and i can get things coherent and symmetrical. Im going to life drawing it and loving it, but every time i go to lay in a head on a figure it just totally fudges, so i need to at least get that worked out. But life drawing helps me not get behind on figures at least.
However after May or June im gonna hit figures super hard for the rest of the year since Im building up a good idea of exactly what i need to work on. Im gonna first for the head months go through Watts stuff with lots of copies of his work and rewatching his lay ins, and at least "watch" all his head videos to see where they go up into the later courses. Also gonna work from Loomis, and Hogarthes head drawing book which i just got and its fantastic, lots of weird and interesting forms to study in that.
Then for the figure months im gonna try and get all matessi's books on Force and copy the crap outta those and read his theories on gesture, then ill also do watts figure drawing course, as well as probably resub to NMA and go through Karl Gnass' course again since i learned a ton from that and still remember most of it at life drawing. I'll also see if i can get Proko's sexy anatomy stuff and learn to shade the muscles and indicate them well. And if I do all that i just might sort out all my bad drawing habits this year, and it'll be a lotta work, but it'll be worth it!
I wanna get so good at drawing that people online start asking me for advice/tips, that's when I'll know im getting somewhere. I'm gonna try to paint as little as i can this year and shade sparingly, but definitely when I feel like it since adding tone is the cheapest way to learn how to paint. I have NO IDEA what my portfolio will end up looking like and what even genre I'll be into at that point. But if i had to, I'd imagine at this point itll look fine arty but also illustrationy like Igor Sid, Deharme, or Cynthia Shepherd. But no promises, just the promise of improving and staying crazy ;)
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]