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Ari a
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5d
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Ari a
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19d
I wanted to ask for a feedback. Do I do it right? I'm not sure about it. Also I don't know if I should use a pencil or a black ink pen. According to drawabox we should only use black ink pen but I don't know what's better.
I am also doing drawabox and NO YOU SHOULD NOT ONLY USE BLACK INK PEN. Those instructions are for the drawabox challenges ONLY, and they explicitly say you can use whatever you want outside of those challenges, even encouraging you to explore other mediums.
I'm not qualified to answer what might be right or wrong, just a few thoughts as input for you to work with. Regarding the question of ink vs. pencil - I think it heavily depends on what you want to learn, study, achieve... I never studied with drawabox but the reasons I have heard a couple of times for using ink was that as soon as you've put your lines down on paper they can't be erased. you have to make your mistakes and learn from them - knowing you can't wipe them away therefore should act as an instrument to develop a conscious and clear linework. I do this every now and again and it can be a lot of fun. with pencil you have a different and more versatile toolkit; you can use different degrees of pressure, you can work with the tip of the pencil or the broader side of the tip (english is not my first language, I hope it is clear what I mean) - so all in all there are a lot of ways to play around with the weight of your lines ...
So finally - and this really should be continued by someone *way better than me* - regarding your drawings I think they lean towards a defintion of the figure by its outlines; the way I understood Michael first lessons here he rather wants us to break away from that and develop an approach where every line we put down in the early stages of a drawing is a representation of one of the essential parts of the human body and as such express the pose in the way those lines "flow" into and out of each other ... that's why often times the joints are indicated by the open space those lines create/define...
and I think your drawings suffer a bit in the way that there is not a lot variation in line weight so every line "demands" the same "attention" as the other so they suffer a bit in their "descriptive" nature ...
take all this with a grain of salt - it's hard for me to put my thoughts down in english & I lack the competence in drawing and in teaching how to draw
Anska
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26d
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Hello, I hope all of you are doing well. I feel like I always stick fairly close to the silhouette of a pose even if it's in a simplified manner, and while I tried to distance myself from this approach, I am not sure if I was successful.
The first batch of drawings is based on reference photo sets by Howard Lyon; the master study is done from a piece of promo art for Dishonored 2 by Sergey Kolesov, which I have always admired how dynamic it is; and the last batch was done from imagination. This last bit of the assignment was definitely the hardest - and probably the one I need most practice in.
Ari a
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28d
I'm so glad this came out today. Tmr is my birthday. I will use the upcoming year to practice a lot of figure drawing in hope that I can finally improve. <3 I love your videos so much.
The big ideas are there though! A few observations from my novice eyes:
I would say for your front view the larger hand size is correct! Beware of tiny hands!
Your femur joint (greater trochanter) seems to be a tad low. It should be 2/3 the way down the pelvis this looks like it's touching the bottom which will shorten the bone. (screen grabbed an example from the lesson for ya)
I'd advise to post your work on the project tab, that would give you a better chance for the teacher or more advance students to review your work. (I am a very, very, very, basic student and you deserve to talk to someone that knows what they're doing!)
Hope that was helpful, best of luck in your art journey!
Lee Widegren Lundin
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2mo
Did some body language sketches using the character archetype shapes spoken about in the lecture.