Daily Sketches (Critiques are welcome)
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Thieum
I create this topic to share my daily sketches (apart from assignments drawings). This will be a motivation for me to have a daily practice and to fill my sketchbooks.
Critiques are welcome.
Thank you very much!
A few more gesture drawings and some sketches of houses I made to practice for the gestural architecture project of the drawing basics course
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Didn't post anything in this topic for a while... And I feel the need to get back into it seriously! Here are a few sketches I made directly with a pen. I really like drawing with a pen because I find it a good way to improve the spontaneity of the line. However it's really difficult to keep correct proportions and loose lines. No eraser and no Ctrl Z. But very liberating!
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Appart from the dynamic shapes studies of seals in the drawing basics course, I continued practicing on poses and portraits shapes. I tried to implement @Steve Lenze and @Martha Muniz 's advices , focusing more on accentuating movements, expressions, less on proportions and details. I tried to find interesting shapes while trying to give the impression of volume. I had a hard time sometimes, especially with the right hand of the man in the centre of the second page (which I had to modify as I never managed to draw the original postion)
it looks great. I think your sketchbooks are incredible and reflect your growth.
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A few more shapes studies from portraits and figures. I tried to simplify the shapes, sometimes to deform them more or less. Actually I most of the time go with the idea of deforming them much more but I often let myself be trapped by the temptation to simply copy the model...
I like your faces, especially laurel and Hardy.
Looking at your big face in the first one, I noticed some things that I hope can help you a little.
I did a quick sketch over that drawing, I hope it is useful :)
In the continuity of the exercise on animal portraits in the drawing basics course I wanted to apply this principle of research of simplified shapes on studies of a few model poses. It seems to me that it's a good way to take a little distance from the model and to take a step towards imaginative drawings... Anyway, I hope
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Hello! In the spirit of moving towards more imaginative drawings, I think something that could take these studies to the next level would be emphasizing the weight carried by these poses. You seem to be getting a solid understanding of the shapes that make up the construction, and the next step could be to try and exaggerate in order for them to feel more dynamic. Focusing on an element like weight--observing the points where the weight is distributed, towards which direction their balance shifts, the tension against the ground/surface--can help guide you in this direction.
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A few more sketches I did from real life observation this time. Much more challenging with in particular difficulties with perspective and proportions. I Tried different techniques. Sometimes with preliminary pencil marks (more attention to composition and perspective), sometimes directly in pen (more focus directly on 2d shapes). 2 completely different exercises.
I love love the simplicity of these without a background but the perspective is a bit off in one or 2. I believe if you modify the angle of the chair legs to be more straight lines, it will ground the object. Also the shadow of the flip flops give mixed signals as to which direction is the light source. When I say this I just mean that the strap indicates the light is from above but ahead, while the shadow behind them indicates the light is directly before them instead of above. Your 1st and 4th photos are my favorite. The shelf has good perspective and the 1st is very detailed while toeing simplicity to match the others. Great work!
These sketches are great, but I personally think that the shading is a bit bland, and the blank space the objects are "floating" in is pretty boring. I suggest you add more to the background (maybe crosshatching at the edges).
They look really good and i really like the shading on the second page. The objects on the first page look really life like.
One thing that i noticed is that the legs on chairs sometimes go in a different perspective than they should, like the most front leg on the third page. There is also the bookcase that looks beautiful but the top row looks a bit off to me and i don't know why.
I hope that helps a bit and keep up the good work.
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One more sreenshot study from the Corpse Bride in which I tried to apply @Steve Lenze 's advices about line weight and tones contrasts: more contrast on the foreground and less for middle and background. No line at all for the background. However, I probably should have pushed the contrasts even more.
Below some faces studies in which I worked on line weight, without using tones
The Corpse Bride one looks great! between the line weight and values, it really has nice depth, good job :)
Hey Thieum,
These are cool and a great way to practice your drawing.
My suggestion is if you are going to use tone on your drawings, then you should use it to your advantage to create aerial perspective.
I did a quick sketch to show you how I would use it, I hope it helps :)
Thank you very much Steve for your feedback and your advices. Indeed my background lines are way too heavy. And next time I'l think about tones contrasts for aerial perspective. In these drawings I was sometimes disturbed by the local values of some elements that were in contradiction with the aerial perspective: some distant elements darker than some closer ones for example. I have troubles to deal with that kind of problem.
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2 Studies of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio screenshots. Tried to study composition and to think about line weight (but not enough)
Very cool project that you started. I like the look at lot. What materials are you using?
Regarding line weight: The heavy lines of the foreground object in the top screenshot make it to important for my taste. Whereas the lines of the path and the house on the hill in your first landscape sketch (your other post) could be a bit thicker - in this case the aerial perspective conflicts with the central motiv.
Studies of drawings from awesome character designers Carter Goodrich and Carlos Grangel.
