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Pedro Henrique D'Oliveira
Hi guys i would like to know what i shall focus to improve at character fundamentals anatomy, and character design, what i might do in order to improve, what im missing, and what i shall keep as it is, critiques and compliements are equally welcome! thanks!
Hello, I think the best way , and fastest way ,to improve your anatomy is to learn gesture drawing and then in-depth anatomy because I think learning only about muscle makes us artist too focus on little detail and not the whole picture. I think the way you draw your character makes him rather flat, like a 2d image and not a 3D figure in space ,I the bean and robo bean lessons from Mr Prokopenko will Help . It is generally recommended that we use longer and more confident line (use the motion of the shoulder to draw and not the wrist), don’t worry that a line is off a little. And for the character, I quite like him and hoping to see more of him in the future.
Thanks a lot Granny Piner! i will watch those classes and make its exercises!i will keep on thinking as a 3D form instead of 2D, you said well, when i drew him i was focusing not on the solid 3D forms.Don't worry, gonna work on him soon!
One thing I would do is look at a lot of art that's similar to what you're going for and observe how they do different things like draw hair, create shadows, draw eyes, and what kinds of proportions and head shapes they use.
Thanks Polly! i do that,specifically that one i tried to figure something out of my imagination, didn't used any reference,or anything, but i will keep that in mind.
It's a great start! You've got a lot of life and personality in your characters. I'm going to recommend 3 books. "Drawing the Silver Way" is an excellent primer on designing characters for animation, if that's your goal. Even if you wanna do more realistic stuff, you'll learn a lot about shape design, exaggeration, and caricature. "Drawing Comics the Marvel Way" is a good introduction to gesture and constructive figure drawing. "Figure Drawing for All it's Worth" by Andrew Loomis will introduce you to anatomy, planes, and lighting. Before you delve into anatomy super deeply, I would advise learning the figure in terms of simple forms (cylinders, cubes, boxes). Any of the following teachers will show this: Ron Lemen, Steve Huston, Glenn Vilppu, Michael Hampton. If you'd like to take perspective class to help you draw these 3d forms, I'd advise Marshall Vandruff's Perspective course, as well as Scott Robertson's "How to Draw" book
Wow! reall thanks Peter! a lot of content! gonna search for all of the books you mentioned!
Hi Pedro, If you want to create figures from imagination like this, even if they are cartoons, you need to get proficient at drawing three-dimensional forms from imagination. You get this from learning perspective.
Hey pedro, I would reccomend doing lots of quicksketches and gesture drawings. Keep the number of lines pretty limited(either 2 or 4 for each limb).
