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Christopher Lebreault
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13d
added comment inDemo - Line Master Studies - Jeff Watts
🤯🤯 My brain is short-circuiting. I can understand trying to inmate the same shape or lines the person you are studying did..... but that is it. I don't know how the artist started ( did they lay in or go directly to drawing, did they use a box or circle when constructing the head.... etc)
In this Glen Keane sketch. on top of the above things I have stated, there are places where he did more than one line to get the line he wanted, am I to drawing all his attempts or the fine line he was was happy... how do I know which line that is even? some lines idk what they were supposed to be, could they be a previous mistake or maybe they are leftover evidence of his lay-in (if there was one) before he found what he wanted to commit to?
Please send help lol
I tried to do a study of Soirie Kim but I feel like I copied more than I study. the picture with all the yellow is her original and the pencil is my copy/study. I uploaded mine twice because I applied a black-and-white filter to it to try and take some glare away
Quinton Larrimore
13d
I think it boils down to asking yourself why an artist MIGHT choose to use a certain line. It could be because it is a high or low contrast area, or the thing carries a lot of weight or doesn't, or the details of something need to be highlighted while others aren't necessary, or a bunch of other different reasons. There's so many possibilities and so many decisions to be made.
When you sit down and start one of these study sessions, I think the first thing you should is take the piece and physically put it far away from you. What do you notice about the lines? Which ones pop out and which are faded?
In Stan's previous lessons, he had a focus on hierarchy AND light and shadow. Glen Keane probably made the hair darker where he did in order to separate it from the rest of the body and also to bring one of the back locks a little bit closer to the viewport. The areas beneath the feet or hands are darker because they would cast a bit of a shadow on the branch and because they also would stand out from the branch. The knee, lower back, bottom of the right forearm, and the right arm are all dark because they could be a.) hard places or (in my opinion more likely) places with a lot of tension and weight. Even Tarzan's eyebrow is darker because it is furrowed and full of tension.
So, it looks like Glen used most of the concepts, which Stan showed us previously, in a variety of ways. Maybe he made this piece to explore how Tarzan moves, or sits in his environment, or to design his character, or something else like that. I'm not sure. I think if you keep experimenting and practicing while keeping those things in mind then you'll start to intuitively do it.
I hope this helps,
