02-03-2016, 10:49 PM
jeso:Cool work man, never thought you'd be much of an anime artist for some reason.
the two girls at the bottoms eyes are very wonky though, plus the right girls body is contorted weirdly.
To add to what Artiste said about studying other artists(i'd reccommend Kushart krenz and Kawacy), an idea i came up with recently but have yet to try was to try copying people from life, but exaggerating them in either your own way of drawing anime or trying to copy another artists way of doing so, since all good exaggeration is based on realism I think it could be a good excercise to try out. On that note as well try to think more about how you're simplifying it in general, right now they are pretty generic anime eyes but the best anime artists i know still add in them realistic signifiers like the waterline for the eye and the upper eyelid. http://img03.deviantart.net/764b/i/2014/...7hmaj7.jpg
It's tough though, even though I know a bunch of these signifiers, trying to implement them well into exaggerated drawing is really difficult without finding myself going straight up realistic, or drawing them creepily.
Eyeliana:thanks for the crits on the umbrella, i've tried it again but I think part of it is just a mechanical drawing issue, the ellipse is really big so trying to freehand it properly is a challenge for me plus I have to draw the circle through the figure so if I mess up it really makes it difficult to correct, I have been trying to draw the ellipse then add the dome on top aftwards though so i'll try to draw a circle first on my next attempt.
Also kickass work on that portrait, looks really 3d, not sure whats going on in the neck area though.
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I've started on Scott robertsons how to draw book, as said I prefer drawing people over cars or machines(though machines do sound fun), but I think learning a high level of perspective would help me a lot even if I don't end up using all them skills simply knowing them would help I think, plus i've thought about getting into making my own comics at some point so knowing how to draw enviorments would be a pretty big deal.
Firstly, trying to understand the cone of vision, which is where I got stuck last time, need to get myself a protractor for the angles lol, did'nt think i'd need one for art but for this it looks like i'm really gonna need it.
Also did some work on multiplying and dividing boxes and planes, which i've had experience doing before so these were quite easy.
Doodles
and that other attempt at the nui picture, gonna retry it one more time, a big issue i'm having with figure drawing in general is simply trying to build the basics of the pose, i've been through damn near a million tutorials on this but finding a method of just getting the basic forms down accurately has been really hard for me, not to mention there's the added difficulty that I can't think of poses well.
the two girls at the bottoms eyes are very wonky though, plus the right girls body is contorted weirdly.
To add to what Artiste said about studying other artists(i'd reccommend Kushart krenz and Kawacy), an idea i came up with recently but have yet to try was to try copying people from life, but exaggerating them in either your own way of drawing anime or trying to copy another artists way of doing so, since all good exaggeration is based on realism I think it could be a good excercise to try out. On that note as well try to think more about how you're simplifying it in general, right now they are pretty generic anime eyes but the best anime artists i know still add in them realistic signifiers like the waterline for the eye and the upper eyelid. http://img03.deviantart.net/764b/i/2014/...7hmaj7.jpg
It's tough though, even though I know a bunch of these signifiers, trying to implement them well into exaggerated drawing is really difficult without finding myself going straight up realistic, or drawing them creepily.
Eyeliana:thanks for the crits on the umbrella, i've tried it again but I think part of it is just a mechanical drawing issue, the ellipse is really big so trying to freehand it properly is a challenge for me plus I have to draw the circle through the figure so if I mess up it really makes it difficult to correct, I have been trying to draw the ellipse then add the dome on top aftwards though so i'll try to draw a circle first on my next attempt.
Also kickass work on that portrait, looks really 3d, not sure whats going on in the neck area though.
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I've started on Scott robertsons how to draw book, as said I prefer drawing people over cars or machines(though machines do sound fun), but I think learning a high level of perspective would help me a lot even if I don't end up using all them skills simply knowing them would help I think, plus i've thought about getting into making my own comics at some point so knowing how to draw enviorments would be a pretty big deal.
Firstly, trying to understand the cone of vision, which is where I got stuck last time, need to get myself a protractor for the angles lol, did'nt think i'd need one for art but for this it looks like i'm really gonna need it.
Also did some work on multiplying and dividing boxes and planes, which i've had experience doing before so these were quite easy.
Doodles
and that other attempt at the nui picture, gonna retry it one more time, a big issue i'm having with figure drawing in general is simply trying to build the basics of the pose, i've been through damn near a million tutorials on this but finding a method of just getting the basic forms down accurately has been really hard for me, not to mention there's the added difficulty that I can't think of poses well.
