Alex MoCa
Mexico
A self taught who decided to learn art at the middle of his Software Engineering degree. learned English by playing TF2, so bear with me please.
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Ben Kindergarten
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3yr
added comment ini´had never got feedback since i started drawing.
They are good. Its a question of taste. Do you want to be more natural? these look like a super hero.
Alex MoCa
3yr
honestly i want them to look solid and fleshy.
Alex MoCa
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3yr
i do the same thing about the notes and it works for me honestly, i try to make them easy to understand like trying to explain "any topic you are learning" to a 5 year old, that mentality really helps me out to clean up and ignore a lot of "unnecessary information" trying to explain it with simple and quick words that resume the topic. i think is a good strat but don't get to crazy with it, make it easy and quick to understand let it be like 30 minutes or around 1 hour of your studding session, and the rest just applying what you learn by drawing. drawing is a visual skill after all.
about the burnout, it really depends on things, for me it was that the process of learning it was not fun anymore, did like 6 to 8 hours of studying a day, sometimes we feel that more is better but it was not, it burn me out really quickly and it took me more time to recover from it, it even give me anxiety and depression, i fix it by just giving my self like 2 hours of studding, and the rest just me having fun with what i learn.
also don't ignore figure drawing don't be like me and spend a lot of time in anatomy with no simple understanding of the human figure, draw a ton of boxes learn basic perspective and study proportions, anatomy can wait.
TLDR: Make quick notes that a 5 year old can understand, make the learning process fun, if is not fun why bother, dont ignore simple fundamentals (Basic structure, figure drawing, proportions and simple perspective.)
This is just a feeling I have, but have you devoted much time to really studying the skeleton? I think it could give your work some more weight and solidity. Michael Hampton's figure book is great for that
that book was actually my first art book , read it like a thousand times,i did studied the skeleton but nothing to deep to be honest.
thanks to all your feedback guys im really thankful that all of you stop by and critique my studies, as for now im gonna start improving my work and follow your advice, thanks again. :)
I think the work you have here is great. I would try using different reference to practice putting into practice what you have learned on someone with a smaller muscle structure and I would try adding in contour lines to help drive home the form of the arm and how everything over laps. I hope this helps. Keep it up! Also check out Steve Huston he would be great to study from to complment what you have learned.
thanks a lot, i´had study heads from steve huston, but never try on his anatomy, gonna start studing it now
yes, its true, in my whole 5 years i´d never publish anything or ask for a critique about my stuff, im posting this because they are my most recent drawings, i´was trying to finally use tone since it was a scarty topic for me, and using some simple forms on hands just to make it easy to memorized the structure.
i will love to know what you guys think and don't be afraid to rip my stuff apart i honestly appreciated if you tell my why is awfull or what should i really focus on.
Also sorry for low quality pictures, phone is almost as old as me.
