Idellia
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Yo, I'm new to an art community, I hope you could guide me well, tysmm!!
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Yo, here's my loose sketches! I've learn that in using references, you don't just copy it, you need to give it a character and a sense of flow for it to feel alive on its own.
I marked some stars on the sketches that I think I did great for implementing this tips.
And oh, what do you use when you're capturing your art? I think my camera is a little blurry.
Idellia
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3mo
Hi! I'm Idellia and I'm new here! Honestly, i can't really afford to buy any courses here. I'm learning to draw through YouTube and I still want to held myself accountable for my progress, so, I want to share the sketches I had learn from the basics playlist.
Here are my sketches of pear and that one from "Learning to sketch from Imagination". I picked heron because I'm interested at how elegant ant vigilant it was makes me feel.
During the process, I struggled at 2 things:
- Downsizing the subject onto paper
- Keeping it simple as possible
Yet I enjoyed at how I managed to give it a shot!
So, what do you think are the parts I need to improve here?
Critiques are greatly appreciated, thank u!
There is SO much to unpack here!
Good morning I’m Riin! I’m going to try my hand at critiquing and coaching you a bit here ..
Your herons are incredibly advanced subjects to target after. This is not a bad thing! It just means there’s a lot more going on in the subject matter to pay attention to that your eye is yet trained to look for.
With that being said your third drawing attempt of these birds is your most solid as you allowed the sketchy lines in to represent direction of the feathering and you inputted contour lines to help yourself understand and translate understanding of the curvature of the neck.
Let’s go back to your still life first drawing- are you drawing from observation? Or are you drawing from photo? Anyone will tell you it’s best to learn straight from observation as it’s 3D and a photo has already made a 3D object into a 2D one. However, it’s still possible, though not ideal.
Let’s start with your values. Have you done a value scale? Have you done it a few times over to really get familiar with it? Let’s start there. Once you have that down I want you to keep in mind that everything forms a shape- including those values! Look at those shades and shadows real close when you go ti draw—and you’ll see shapes of different shades made and often they mimic that value scale!… unless you have a very strong overhead light source. Your whole still life is made of these shapes from shadows, start training your eye to look for them and contour them out! This will eventually translate over to your herons with you get really handy with it.
I hope this helps, I know it’s a lot- I’m new here too but welcome in with the rest of us!
Hello Idellia, best of luck with your learning.
The sketches look cool. The first image looks a bit smudgy but I guess it's because you drew it before learning about shading.
