Zizka's Sketchbook (Nudity and Vulgarity, NSFW)

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As i said previously it one thing to understand how to copy it an other to invent.What about trying to inventing your own portrait using reference?See that not the end at all.I think perhaps your still in a comfort zone not that you want to stay there but that your still stuck in that way of thinking.

You need to move from observation to application. Just take that simple cup you draw could you draw it without the reference? Could you draw it an add a pattern to it? Could you invent a new cup base on the old one? Could you draw it and make it look like it broken into many piece and still resemble the cup it was made from? You see there a long way to be a master of a subject and there an infinity of possibility of improving a simple object into something out of the ordinary.

What about trying to draw draw the cup in 5 different view using atleast 3 different perspective.That the type of challenge you need to start to give yourself to break your pattern.

You use to make more creative stuff but it slowly turning into a i can copy sketchbook no offense to that it require patience and precision but i think i really want to encourage you to move toward wanting to do better than that.But i also want to stress the importance of being your own vision of yourself.You need to expand beyond what you see.You need to move form seeing thing to seeing what is beyond that point which mean knowing enough about certain subject to create new possibility.

Honestly you drawn portrait but it still very minimal right now you don't even have 50 portrait(and that probaly even a low number)and they are repetition of the same head so please try to get the idea out of your system that there nothing you can learn.

Ask yourself what are you not able to do yet in term of fudamental and from there you can work to move yourself toward achieving what ever you feel you need to achieve to fix those fundamental.But to understand how to do that you need to know 'where to put ''skill point'' you have to understand the skill tree if you understand what i mean.If you want help to understand those skill tree you simply have to ask yourself what your able to do and not do the biggest problem is figuring the why you can't do something but the answers is often simply that some fundamental require other fundamental because they work together.

Let me give you an example let say you want to draw a greyscale cube and add a cast shadow to it.You can't even start to do that without choosing the type of your surface because it will be essential for rendering later on.


What Fundamental would you need to use?Well than you would need to understand what is a cube that mean understanding form&construction than after that you would need to get the proportion right ops that where is start to get tricky how can you get the proportion right if you want to draw the cube in perspective? That where you need to understand perspective and it rule.Ok now let say you manage to draw correctly a cube in whatever perspective now you gotta understand how to cast the shadow and you also need to be able to correctly map the value of each plane of your cube.So this mean you are require to have prio understand of some skill or else you are missing some of the piece to create more complex subject.

Let take a look at what drawing principle was involve just to create a basic cube with a cast shadow.
Surface,Proportion&placement,form&construction,perspective,Light scheme,value and Edge

Why i give you that example is to simply try to explain that fundamental support each other.

So to finish of i want you to take a good look at the image provided.

Here a few image of the principle you need to invest in and ultimately combine i provided two image just to reinforce there importance.

This is a very limited skill tree but they represent the major branch.Each one of them splitting in there own set of rule and relation to other branch.