09-24-2015, 08:33 AM
(09-23-2015, 08:03 PM)Jeso Wrote: You know what, I have always gotten this.. always.. It drives me nuts, cause i dont even know why, That's the exact same thing People used to write on my CA.org sketchbook thread 4 years ago. I have definitely improved my imaginative work since then, But something still lingers... Maybe it is what you said, I will check those resources out and get to the bottom of this bs haha. Thanks for the critique Vici, I really needed some sort of feedback on that.
You figures are improving Vici! those divas and dudes with their dicks hanging out... haha they coming out great :p How much of that is from imagination?
Thank you! n_n
For the stuff I'm doing digitally - very little of it is from imagination. Sometimes I find a photo I like but part of the feet is cut off by the photographer, a logo, etc. and I'll try and make it reasonably accurate using what I know. :O Other than that though, I'm always using a photo. I want to practice drawing things in a way that will look more accurate, so I'm trying to draw only using tools that I could feasibly use from my head later on/practice different treatments I could use based on something that happens in real life... does that answer your question?
I hope those resources help you out! I mean, there are some really definitive things that are missing in your imaginative work that makes it seem like you haven't studied it enough - like certain material treatments, your reflected light seems more like a second light blob than a secondary light wash... with skin and material like is on spider man's mask, you get a saturation in the core shadow caused by sub-surface scattering... your imaginative color tends to lack that saturated "pop," and you tend to just go straight to a darker and less saturated version of the same colors in the shadow which makes it dull and lifeless, versus using tried-and-true light/color logic. That book/video should cover everything you would ever need to think about, but since you also seem a little confused about why your work gets that reaction, I wanted to maybe point out some of the specifics. (Overall, it just lacks a "trueness" or authenticity to how light works.) I would definitely just study up on light physics/theory, and then do some quick material ball studies, and that will probably help a lot!
@LordMinx
Welcome back!
Nice volume of work on those gestures.
You seem to be using a lot of extra lines when you draw your figures, giving you that scratchy/hairy effect... especially in fast drawings, every extra line you make is time wasted, and these lines don't seem to be helping you find accuracy of form, either. I would like to see you do more concentrated gesture studies, using mannequin forms to depict the major volumes (Head, rib cage, and pelvis at least)
Something like this:
While you will improve a bit just through sheer pencil mileage and from looking at photos of people, with a lack of focus and some tools you can use to think about how to construct a figure, how to maintain forms, etc. exercises like these become largely (in my opinion) a waste of time.
Keep up the hard work!