10-10-2015, 09:11 AM
Richie:Good to see you doing so many faces man, you're missing the likeness with alot of these but I think it's the kind of thing that'll get better with just quantity then anything else, if you have a mirror try to do some daily self portraits as well, they'll allow you to see the form of the face alot better then photos(though you'll probbly dip in accuracy a bit as trying to measure because difficult).
also if you're not already doing this flip the canvas more to see mistakes set a button to it as well for flipping sideways and up and down, if you get into the habit of flipping regularly it helps to correct alot of mistakes.
And lastly try to keep your linework cleaner I think, it helps me out with figuring out detailed areas like the eyes and nose anyway, by all means go in sketchy on a first pass but once it looks generally right, lower the opacity of that layer and draw cleaner less scratchy lines on another.
Jeso:Yeah i'm jealous as hell as to what Rigney can do XD, I know Chiu does the same, when I used to go to his streams he'd be posting these mostly blank bases for faces and telling people to draw from imagination but really try to visualize every line first, did'nt really work for me but I will try to draw more without ref once I get better, atm my visual library is so bad that I can't paint realistically even with tons of ref, I get slaughtered without it XD.
Sorry to hear about your life issues btw, i'm in a similair situation for the most part but I have a friend I go to every few weeks or so(We just binge play games for a whole day or two.) and a gaming group I talk with regularly on skype.
If you're depression really gets that bad though I would suggest going out and doing stuff atleast 1 day a week, hell if you can find a local drawing group it'd be like killin two birds with one stone but even if you have to take a day off every week or two it'd probbly be better for you and your art if you're mentally fine.
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Sorry for not uploading the last few days, been tired as shit and I ended up sleeping practically all day yesterday(massive sleep issues) got a new iphone alarm that should help, makes you leave the bed and walk around with a pedometer....got me out of bed but the fuckin pedometer does'nt work with my phone it seems, so had an alarm going off for 30 minsXD but I found a way to get it to work in a different way with a side feature it has.
Anyway did more cubes, cylinders and more foreshortened figures, gonna do some more from imagination soon but I figure the more I first understand basic shapes like cubes and cylinders(especially in extreme perspectives) the better.
I've also relized it seems to be the overlapping or really extreme foreshortening that gives me issues, stuff like crouching or a hand being reached out far, general up or down shots don't give me too much trouble so i'm gonna focus my efforts on the former two.
also if you're not already doing this flip the canvas more to see mistakes set a button to it as well for flipping sideways and up and down, if you get into the habit of flipping regularly it helps to correct alot of mistakes.
And lastly try to keep your linework cleaner I think, it helps me out with figuring out detailed areas like the eyes and nose anyway, by all means go in sketchy on a first pass but once it looks generally right, lower the opacity of that layer and draw cleaner less scratchy lines on another.
Jeso:Yeah i'm jealous as hell as to what Rigney can do XD, I know Chiu does the same, when I used to go to his streams he'd be posting these mostly blank bases for faces and telling people to draw from imagination but really try to visualize every line first, did'nt really work for me but I will try to draw more without ref once I get better, atm my visual library is so bad that I can't paint realistically even with tons of ref, I get slaughtered without it XD.
Sorry to hear about your life issues btw, i'm in a similair situation for the most part but I have a friend I go to every few weeks or so(We just binge play games for a whole day or two.) and a gaming group I talk with regularly on skype.
If you're depression really gets that bad though I would suggest going out and doing stuff atleast 1 day a week, hell if you can find a local drawing group it'd be like killin two birds with one stone but even if you have to take a day off every week or two it'd probbly be better for you and your art if you're mentally fine.
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Sorry for not uploading the last few days, been tired as shit and I ended up sleeping practically all day yesterday(massive sleep issues) got a new iphone alarm that should help, makes you leave the bed and walk around with a pedometer....got me out of bed but the fuckin pedometer does'nt work with my phone it seems, so had an alarm going off for 30 minsXD but I found a way to get it to work in a different way with a side feature it has.
Anyway did more cubes, cylinders and more foreshortened figures, gonna do some more from imagination soon but I figure the more I first understand basic shapes like cubes and cylinders(especially in extreme perspectives) the better.
I've also relized it seems to be the overlapping or really extreme foreshortening that gives me issues, stuff like crouching or a hand being reached out far, general up or down shots don't give me too much trouble so i'm gonna focus my efforts on the former two.
