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Becky Alemayehu
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6mo
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Egg Sketches! I found it hard to try and not render these and forced my self to stay loose. These were very fun!
Becky Alemayehu
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3yr
Hey! Sorry about not posting the drawing. I was able to find materials for a BG btw. Although I put it in lazily.
When rendering any form, you must use both form shadows and cast shadows to describe the form. I did a quick drawing to show you the difference. I hope this helps :)
Also don't forget the basic forms of the structures, the arm should feel like a cylinder or a box, the torso like a barrel or a box too, so try to show that too with your shading. And btw that pose and drawing the back is HARD so nice effort, keep it up!
Almost all your edges in the core shadow are hard or firm, so try softening the form edges, for example you could soften these edges:
Hi! I would appreciate any feedback or critique. Thanks!
I didn’t have the materials fr a BG. Would pastels work? Idk, but I have no clue on H2 draw hands and feet. This was hard. I took about maybe 3-4 hours. I don’t know what else to add. I learned to start with a linear lay-in of the shadows. I’ll probably do another one of these.
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I want to learn the proportions of children in different ages. I know that Loomis´s "figure drawing for all it´s worth" has diagrams, but in Hale´s "Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters" he mentions "Rimmer´s anatomy" having the best plates. Tried googeling, but I had a hard time finding it. Dose anyone know about it? Maybe there´s an even better alternative?
There's a book on Amazon. I don't know how to post links on this website. Hope this helps!
great work!
H H
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3yr
I think these are incredibly well done! The forms are super dynamic and you can really feel the twisting, the pulling, the stretching and the motion in these. You clearly have a great understanding of the figure! I’ll definitely check out that video. Thanks for sharing!
Hi! I've been learning balance for about 3 days. Here are some things I've learned. I would appreciate any feedback, and please fill in the gaps of my limited knowledge.
I mainly struggled with creating action poses, so I'll mainly talk about that.
Action poses are usually unbalanced. It usually consists of one leg (or support) being up and the weight of the person being moved forward to around the leg. Walking and running are just controlled falls where we fall for a little bit and then catch ourselves. The main component of action poses I've noticed is the lean and tilt of the upper body. In my studies, you'll notice that most of the poses have some sort of tilt to them which makes it look more like an action pose. Without the tilt, it looks kind of balanced. Making the person lean forward will move the center of gravity which makes it easier to make it unbalanced.
Also, for finding the center of gravity, I saw a video by Ahmed Aldoori where he found it by creating an oval/circle for the main mass (pelvis, ribcage, head) and found the center of that circle. It helped me alot. The video was a recent RefWed.
I hope this will help someone! Thanks for any feedback!
Becky Alemayehu
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3yr
I've been practicing the robo bean for 3 days now. I feel like I understand it and the landmarks for it much better. Now, I can draw it more confidently and feel like I'm capturing the pose ok. Although my first few drawings in this session weren't very accurate, they set off so many lightbulbs. I especially had trouble finding the ASIS when I first started. Now, I can kind of imagine the wing-looking things of the pelvis. It's exciting! Although, I definitely have some mistakes. I've progressed! That's all I can about. The fact that I'm slowly but surely getting better.
I appreciate any and all feedback.
Note: In my pictures, the ones that are circled are my attempts at the references in Proko's example video (the free one.) They are off, but I learned a lot from them.
Some tips (from my limited knowledge):
- Use the bean as a base
- try to start off with gesture, then the bean, and then I usually can visualize the corners of the box and go from there!
- Make a diagram of an imaginary robo bean with labels of what each corner's landmark is
- It really helped me at first.
hi, I think you are on the right track. the proportions seem a bit off, especially the male ones. Their torso and upper arms are huge and the heads look tiny in comparison. Getting proportions right I think is something that comes with practice.
Thanks! I didn't do any measuring for this honestly. It seemed measuring was introduced later on in the course so, I didn't do it. The heads in most of these were off by a lot.
