Structure Critiques
2yr
Frank D'souza
Hello everyone, here's my homework for lesson 3. My main goal here was to use simple 3D forms to construct animals with proportion and likeness being an afterthought. I would love some feedback on how well i achieved that. Is the perspective right? How would you change my drawings to make it look better structurally?
Looking at my drawings, I definitely see some mistakes. In the second page, The front right leg of the horse is too small. In the third page the left leg in the back definitely has the wrong orientation and Im showing too much of the side plane. In the reference only a sliver of the side plane is shown.
Hi Frank, these are a lot of fun.
I must confess I’m probably not the best person to ask about animal drawing, but as you tagged me, I’ll give you some tips.
1) It’s great that you are analyzing your drawings and assessing what can be improved. People here on Proko only draw each reference once (or only post the final one)I feel this is such a pity. The first sketch should just be a first approach. Try to apply your own critiques to the second and even third and fourth attempts. Try things that you think are wrong too, see what happens. Sometimes you’ll be surprised.
2) Try not to lose gesture when adding structure. ( I did my best to find it on the camel 🐪 but it’s probably not completely right.As I said, I’m not an expert.)
3) It’s super important to find the horizon line and put our animal in a box. I chose the camel because you can actually see the hL in the horizon. Sometimes you need to find it using the paws.
4) Boxes and cylinders can also have gesture.
5) In figure drawing I always try to find the centerline and the edge that is closer to us. I did my best to find them on the camel, but again... Centerline is in purple, The edge is in green.
Let me know if you have any doubts and I’m looking forward to seeing some of your boxed animals 😊
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