Martha Muniz
Martha Muniz
San Diego
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@dropfeeling
First day of gesture drawing, it's much harder than I thought. 😆
Martha Muniz
It's already a great start! I love the fluidity and clarity of the energy. The thing I'd recommend is going for longer, more confident strokes, especially keeping an eye out for CSI lines (which are lines that resemble the shape of those letters, more info can be found here along with some great warm-up exercises: 6 Habits for Good Line Quality). By bringing in clearer strokes, it'll help reinforce the great expression you already have in these gestures -- keep up the good work! :)
Martha Muniz
That's a great question. I think it can be a bit personal from animator to animator, but the way I learned it was from Marshall, who teaches storytelling through acting from Don Richardson's book Acting Without Agony. The main idea boils down to writing the character's OBJECTIVE, EMOTION, and ACTIONS in the scene. For example, in the beginning of The Little Red Riding Hood, Red Riding Hood's objective is to get to her grandmother's house, her emotion is fear, and her action is walking through the forest. Thinking about these things, and especially the objective & emotion, is what helps guide your choices throughout a character animation. It definitely helps to act it out yourself, continuing to go over objective, emotion, and action in your head as you act it out, and record yourself or watch yourself in the mirror to use as reference for your animation.
@doublejon
Martha Muniz
Nice work!
@legsthefrog
Martha Muniz
Looks pretty good! I would just recommend layering a bit more to develop the darkness of the values, especially around the middle, so they're more clear and different from one another. It's a small difference but it can help with clarity, especially for the shadows on the face, but you're definitely doing great so far! :)
Jason Hald
very difficult. i was sticking to the refference too much.
Martha Muniz
You've got a great lay-in already, I think it's just a matter of pushing your value range further. Using more of the darker side of the value range can help further clarify the shadow and form of the subject. Especially for key areas, such as the face, using dark details can help bring more focus and create a hierarchy to organize the drawing. Keep it up, you got this!
Sokolowski Clément
Third assignement. Painting the folds was a very interesting challenge!
Martha Muniz
Lovely work! This depends more on the style you want to go for, but for something more painterly, I would recommend lowering the opacity for the linework and using the values you already laid down to describe the form instead. Especially with the silhouette outline, the contrast between the dark background and lighter skin tones alone will allow the form to read on its own, and pushing the background to be a bit darker can help make it even clearer. Using shadows to define edges can also be of great help. It's already looking very good, so this depends on the final style you want to achieve -- keep up the great work :)
Maiken Rudser
Okay. I did this quite a while ago , but seems i have a fear of sharing work im not sure of. Any advice and critique would be great!
Martha Muniz
Hey there! This looks amazing already, really nice work! I think a point to look at would be how contrast is created throughout the piece, especially through value and edges. There's already a great blending and use of softer edges as things get further from the focal point of the face, but reinforcing the contrast at the face, especially the eyes, could help make the final pop. This could be through more defined edges and a use of darker value for the eyelashes/irises, for example. I would also caution watching out for unintended areas of high contrast, for example the shadow area near the elbows or the decorative hem by her legs, as the high value contrast and sharp edges could lead the eye there more than needed. This is a great piece nonetheless, so these smaller points could help push it just a bit further -- hope this helps and keep up the great work! :D
Marco Sordi
2024/12/12. Good morning everybody. Here's a digital postcard for Christmas greetings. Thanks for any comment or critique. Have a good day!!
Martha Muniz
Awesome work Marco! I especially love the stylization, it feels very lively and cheerful! :)
@hmedhat96
Martha Muniz
Very lovely! You have already a great description of form, the only thing I would recommend is further pushing the definition a bit with some contrast. You could even achieve this by only adding a bit of darker value in the current darkest areas, making it really pop and read more clearly. Great work nonetheless! :)
Michael Koch
Martha Muniz
Nice work! When it comes to rounded objects like the lamp, drawing through as if the object were transparent can help place the curves of the edges with more precision and make it easier to follow the perspective of the drawing. Also, adding some dimension to objects even when they are thinner, like the paintings on the wall, helps sell the groundedness of the scene. You're definitely on the right track, keep up the good work :)
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