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Steve Lenze
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One thing you are doing really well is maintaining character likeness and proportion. The reason to break characters down to primitive shapes would be to work out a difficult pose, such as the girl on the balcony with the rifle. Use the fundamentals when you need them, but I think you are showing nice skill in general. Cool stuff :)
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Some of my comic pages2d
In order to learn drawing comics and develop a style 2 years ago I decided to cooperate with a screenwriter on a full graphic novel (100 pages). 3/4 is done and I see some progress - lines are more confident and i simplify face expressions more, also it begins to feel like fun to draw (at the beginning it was nothing but struggle). I cannot show this work, however here are samples of pages from some short personal comics (finished while working on a main project).
My goal is to draw in a kind of minimalistic style. Began with realism (attached black and white pages) and I was inspired by Magnus (he drew for Max Bunker)
The colored work shows the direction I try to go into. In my opinion it is still not enough stylized yet, sometimes a bit cartoony, but in other pages to much real.
I like John Romita and his thick lines, and he was one of my inspirations for drawing these.
I don't know if this way of progressing by just drawing is enough, maybe i should need to do some fundamentals course again, for example to break characters into primitives. Really don't know right know. Any advice would be helpful :)
Here is another post with my sketches to show my life drawing https://www.proko.com/community/topics/sketching-critique
Not a critique per se, because these are really beautiful. I find that the more anatomy I study and quick (10 seconds - 1 minute) gesture drawings I do, the easier drawing from life becomes. Especially public drawings. I can get a more dynamic pose the better I understand the structure of the human body. Mostly wanted to say that these are awesome! Keep it up 👍
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Sketching critique2d
Hi! I would like to post some of my sketches for critique. These were done during urban sketching meetings, so people I drew were moving.
I gotta admit first, that I was studying some theory about drawing a lot time ago, and forgot a lot of terms.
I decided to upload some fast sketches as well as more polished ones.
Thanks for help!