09-28-2015, 03:18 AM
@LordMinkx
Some definite improvements in these gestures already! There is better structure and proportion. c: I'm not a big fan of mannequin-mannequins anyway, something like this is just right.
One thing though... the colors your drawing with are ridiculously hard to see, which kind of negates the point of drawing it. :o Maybe you prefer these kinds of colors, if it was me I would have trouble sketching in bright blue on the same tone gray. Even if that's your ride-or-die preference, for presentation purposes you definitely want to show other people easily visible/understandable work.
I've been notoriously bad about poor presentation and I'm still really not great at it, but there is definitely something to be said for it. You can't always be the best artist on the slate, but if you can present your work really well it already knocks it up several notches. Just making the sure the contrast is just-so, cropping images correctly, composing them on centers and thirds, etc. Sometimes a lower quality piece presented well can beat a higher-level one if they present it poorly.
@Triggerpigking
Sweet twisting forms.
Some notes:
It could be a matter of style, but really your torso constructions are extremely thin? :o You could sell it, but I dunno if you're intending these to be accurate studies or more stylized ones.... either way, the rib cage proper wouldn't fit into that slender box. the proportion for the depth of the torso is 1/2 of the way across the front (shoulder to shoulder)
When it comes to the difference between the references and unreferenced forms... definitely a better knowledge of anatomy would help, but one thing I would like you to notice is in the referenced drawings, even though the boxes are "Twisting," they have a certain feeling of restraint. Most of the boxes only really bend, curve a little bit, or move on the waist/spine joint.
When you have jumped into your imaginative ones, you're kind of going all out. A lot of the boxes you made are twisted like a piece of ribbon, unlike the restrained forms in your referenced drawing. It seems like you're focusing really hard on the TWIST of the form, maybe to get a dynamic feel, but when using a method like this what you should think about it using the planes to express the pose you want. Instead of just making a twisting box, try thinking "I think I would like the side of the figure to be around here and this length," and then build off of the first plane you can make to form the rest of the box.
Also, ignoring any lack of anatomy knowledge, some of the boxes you're creating on your imaginative figure aren't even boxes anymore. Whether or not you know muscles and bones, while you're constructing just maintaining clean box forms will help a lot, to be honest if you can do that really well in the right proportions, knowing the size of the rib cage and muscles connections isn't going to make it much better unless you really want that extra level of detail. It's all about construction and proportion. So, try to make sure they stay more like boxes and that will bring you a step up.
While you do these constructions from imagination, too, if you do one that you feel is kind of "off," just check a similar one you did from reference earlier. :O It'll help the knowledge stick, and increase your accuracy!
@Jeso
YW!! I'm looking forward to seeing the progress! :D VELVET REVOLVERS, HUUAAHHHH
Some definite improvements in these gestures already! There is better structure and proportion. c: I'm not a big fan of mannequin-mannequins anyway, something like this is just right.
One thing though... the colors your drawing with are ridiculously hard to see, which kind of negates the point of drawing it. :o Maybe you prefer these kinds of colors, if it was me I would have trouble sketching in bright blue on the same tone gray. Even if that's your ride-or-die preference, for presentation purposes you definitely want to show other people easily visible/understandable work.
I've been notoriously bad about poor presentation and I'm still really not great at it, but there is definitely something to be said for it. You can't always be the best artist on the slate, but if you can present your work really well it already knocks it up several notches. Just making the sure the contrast is just-so, cropping images correctly, composing them on centers and thirds, etc. Sometimes a lower quality piece presented well can beat a higher-level one if they present it poorly.
@Triggerpigking
Sweet twisting forms.
Some notes:
It could be a matter of style, but really your torso constructions are extremely thin? :o You could sell it, but I dunno if you're intending these to be accurate studies or more stylized ones.... either way, the rib cage proper wouldn't fit into that slender box. the proportion for the depth of the torso is 1/2 of the way across the front (shoulder to shoulder)
When it comes to the difference between the references and unreferenced forms... definitely a better knowledge of anatomy would help, but one thing I would like you to notice is in the referenced drawings, even though the boxes are "Twisting," they have a certain feeling of restraint. Most of the boxes only really bend, curve a little bit, or move on the waist/spine joint.
When you have jumped into your imaginative ones, you're kind of going all out. A lot of the boxes you made are twisted like a piece of ribbon, unlike the restrained forms in your referenced drawing. It seems like you're focusing really hard on the TWIST of the form, maybe to get a dynamic feel, but when using a method like this what you should think about it using the planes to express the pose you want. Instead of just making a twisting box, try thinking "I think I would like the side of the figure to be around here and this length," and then build off of the first plane you can make to form the rest of the box.
Also, ignoring any lack of anatomy knowledge, some of the boxes you're creating on your imaginative figure aren't even boxes anymore. Whether or not you know muscles and bones, while you're constructing just maintaining clean box forms will help a lot, to be honest if you can do that really well in the right proportions, knowing the size of the rib cage and muscles connections isn't going to make it much better unless you really want that extra level of detail. It's all about construction and proportion. So, try to make sure they stay more like boxes and that will bring you a step up.
While you do these constructions from imagination, too, if you do one that you feel is kind of "off," just check a similar one you did from reference earlier. :O It'll help the knowledge stick, and increase your accuracy!
@Jeso
YW!! I'm looking forward to seeing the progress! :D VELVET REVOLVERS, HUUAAHHHH