03-19-2023, 01:25 PM
Thank you for sharing your process, doubts and perceived can/cannot. I'm on the opposite spectrum, have to set up faraway landmarks and refine within or I end up warping.
The stick-like effect of your first leg drawings seems to stem mostly from the region of the knee. Bone-wise the knee is the thickest part, flesh-wise it is the thinnest one; however there is such a variety across people in how the flesh is distributed around the upper and lower leg that it's hard to deem a drawing "correct" without knowing the reference. Some people do have stick-like legs. And those bones underneath are really sticks. Add to that the adaptation to bipedal locomotion and things get really weird.
By the way I like your "very old drawings" on these pages too, at least the ones not hidden by the pots.
For the sake of understanding what you mean, is there a distinction between quick gestures and quick poses? For me the former is lines of action stuff, the latter is more like regular drawing but simplified (what you did).
I see now what you mean by death grip. I had this too when using thinner pens (in addition to carving the paper). Still have calluses on the fingers from this. When switching to thicker pens, my grip improved. The other end of another spectrum, lol.
It's getting late, I'll come back about the comic, leaf engine, forests and other topics.
The stick-like effect of your first leg drawings seems to stem mostly from the region of the knee. Bone-wise the knee is the thickest part, flesh-wise it is the thinnest one; however there is such a variety across people in how the flesh is distributed around the upper and lower leg that it's hard to deem a drawing "correct" without knowing the reference. Some people do have stick-like legs. And those bones underneath are really sticks. Add to that the adaptation to bipedal locomotion and things get really weird.
By the way I like your "very old drawings" on these pages too, at least the ones not hidden by the pots.
For the sake of understanding what you mean, is there a distinction between quick gestures and quick poses? For me the former is lines of action stuff, the latter is more like regular drawing but simplified (what you did).
I see now what you mean by death grip. I had this too when using thinner pens (in addition to carving the paper). Still have calluses on the fingers from this. When switching to thicker pens, my grip improved. The other end of another spectrum, lol.
It's getting late, I'll come back about the comic, leaf engine, forests and other topics.