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Marco Sordi
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3yr
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2021/8/4. Hello everyone. Here's my new long drawing. Thanks for any advice or suggestion. Have a good day.
Mengu Gungor
3yr
Beautiful drawing. One thing that jumped out at me was the balance of the figure. She is about to fall out of her coupé. You can exaggerate gesture, but you still want to make sure whatever gestural mass you're adding to one side, is added/exaggerated on the other side of the balance line as well, or you may need to move the point of contact (in this case her foot), to compensate for where you are moving her center of mass. Example: Girl on the right in the photo has too much of her weight across her point of contact, and is about to fall over.
Hey Mengu! Great job on this, the drawing is definitely on it's way to being a really strong one.
A couple things I might say are to define your shadow shapes more, and clean up the structure of the hands, more specifically her right wrist feels flat. Also I think if you were to make the face plate of her head wrap the forms of the head more, it would do a lot for determining the lighting.
Great job though and good luck!
Thank you so much Kristian. I did have challenges with the hand, good note on the wrist. And I'll try to observe and indicate facial planes better next time.
Yiming Wu
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4yr
Interesting... To me a mixed lighting condition most of the time can be though like a diffuse light coming from approximately above or from the window, depending on which is stronger, and shadows should fade a bit quicker. On drawings maybe treat one as a major light source, and mentally tune down some of the others can be good. Nice drawing! Although the leg might be a bit too thick? or maybe the shape is like that
Thank you so much for the feedback Yiming. I did try to focus on one light and ignore the rest, but areas farther from that light source are flooded with other lights, so it was challenging. I'll probably try to invent a bit more next time, like you suggested. The leg is a bit foreshortened, I may have slightly exaggerated the thick to thin, it will probably be more apparent to me when I look at this again in a few weeks. Thank you for pointing it out.
Started Life drawing sessions on Saturdays again, and here is day 1 after over a year break. Lighting was kind of all over the place, but I did what I could. I changed gesture slightly, moved hips forward a bit, and tilted the head. Tips welcome for things to focus on, and how to draw in a room where there is light coming in from every which direction.
