Alexey Skliar
Alexey Skliar
Russia
Amateur artist learing how to draw
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Elias Lemus
Great work! Overall they're looking great. Some tips for improvement: 1. Gesture. I think most of the pieces could use a little more movement. Especially Elvis. He seems a little stiff. 2. What do you want the viewer to see and how can you guide the eye there? You can use value contrast, varied edges, colors, etc. Look at portraits by Rembrandt. Notice how the face is always the most rendered and detailed. Some of his hands are fuzzy or just "implied". Don't make EVERYTHING important. 3. Brushwork. Your brushwork is great, but in some pieces it's the same everywhere. You want to treat different materials differently sometimes. You want skin to feel like skin. Fur to feel like fur. Hope that helps. Great work, keep it up!
Alexey Skliar
Thx a lot for thoughtful and lengthy feedback.
Alexey Skliar
added a new topic
Feedback on portraits.
Need feedback on proportions and on finishing touches. Which one of them can be considered finished. I know they all in different styles but maybe they have some common mistakes etc. Any feedback is welcomed!
Steve Lenze
Hey Alexey, These are pretty cool, you have some interesting character designs here. I wanted to show you some things that might help your designs a little. First of all, make sure your figures are solid and in perspective. Make sure to always start with a gesture drawing first, your poses tend to be a bit stiff, especially in the limbs. Make sure the clothing and costume are also reflecting some gesture too if it calls for it. I did some draw overs to show you what I mean, I hope they helps :)
Alexey Skliar
Great feedback! They def too stiff and i never start with gesture which i should do more. I mean i neverdo gesture drawing which shows) Great feedback Steve as always. Also downloaded recently bunch of gesture references but havent done em couse its too boring but got to do the boring stuff to improve. What about this is gesture any good?
Alexey Skliar
Just practicing creating charaters with intresting shapes and design and material rendering , Also photobashed background on some of them. Tell me if there are any intresting once if any.
Steve Lenze
Hey Alexey, I like that your doing these, I have seen this guys stuff on Instagram too. I will say that the old guy in the cowboy hat is your best. The other ones though suffer from the random brushstrokes that you use to lay down your color. It's good to have expressive brushstrokes, but they should still be describing the form and have a unified look to them. If not, it confuses the observer because its hard to see the form. I did a quick and dirty paint over your first image to show you how you can unify your values a little to help describe form better. I hope this helps :)
Alexey Skliar
Hi Steve thx a lot for feedback. Yea the form isn't described well you are right. Was mostly focusing on likeness and didnt described form that well thats for sure.
Alexey Skliar
I got zero feedback) But I like the illustration. What's the story behind it?
Juan Pedro Ramos Ponce
Thank you. The idea is that it is the initiation flight of a young man from a tribe of dragon riders. I imagine dragons much larger than humans so any kind of saddle didn't seem adequate and I wanted to explore other alternatives.
Hudson Koonce
I love earths world!! It is so useful to find great and interesting references. Another place I like to go is a website called line of action. They have all kinds of references for people and even hands and feet too. It’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t been on there before.
Alexey Skliar
Hi Hudson! indeed earthsworld is great. Thx for the suggestion, never been to this web site. Gonna definitely check it out.
Alexey Skliar
I found this amazing instagram account (@earthsworld) with great shots of human heads, with amazing lightning and expressions. If anyone knows any other sources of great references to practice i would apriciate if you share. Also feedback is welcomed.
Christopher Beaven
Looking great! Drawing containers can be very hard to get all the subtle curves, ellipses, etc... And you accomplished it really well. the only think that looked kinda off were the peaches. Their softness isn't matching the loose brushwork over the rest of the painting. Other than that, fantastic! Keep it up!
Alexey Skliar
Thx for feedback Christopher! Yep defenetly i went too hard edge on peaches thx for pointing out!
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