Foot study
4yr
Nick Lyre
So I followed Proko's anatomical foot study drawing and came up with this one. Requesting a critique for this one, pls. I'm also specifically interested in some digital brush advise. I'm using photoshop mainly, and I think this illustration turned out a bit messy because of the brush that I used. If anyone knows where I can find a cool pensil immitating PS brush, pretty please let me know (also a charcoal one would be awesome).
Hi Eleftheria, your technique of translating the traditional graphite quality to digital is gorgeous.
For this critique I referenced Proko's original demo of this foot pose. The Lateral Malleolus (ankle bone) has a flat side plane which is rounded in your drawing. In the muscle/tendon design lecture he emphasized flatter, plane forms for tendons and bony landmarks. Exploring contrast/exaggeration between round shapes and flats could be interesting for a dynamic sculptural effect. For boxiness, remember that the gradient of the shadow is higher contrast between lights and darks to imply a sharp plane change.
These "painterly" digital brushes are free on Artstation: Aaron Griffin, Rutkowski, Craig Mullins (goodbrush), Satish Kumar
Best of luck!
thnx for the critique, I've got some of thgose brushes, though Grzegorz Ritkowski's brushes are not free + I've worked a lot with some good free brushes and also made my own so now I've got a pretty good library (though there's another problem now, the library is so big now that I, sometimes, get lost within the diversity of brushes that I have :))
Nice work! I think the linework looks pretty good, but I agree that pencil brushes can be a little tricky. I have made some pencil brushes before in Photoshop. I think some important things are that opacity jitter and size jitter are set to pen pressure. That way the line gets darker and thicker as you press harder.
