Paul Olsen
Norway
I started drawing in 2016. My main goal is to learn the skills of a comic book artist.
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Matthew Manghi
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I think these look great and I definitely see more of a sense of "cube and cylinder" construction here over the more contour stuff you posted earlier. Very cool! Keep going with defining those big shapes, I have found that the more I understand how to move those shapes in space the easier building heroic scenes is becoming.
You mentioned heads and I think the Asaro head is great, but I'd also suggest checking out pg. 89 of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" for heads. It's a bit of a simpler breakdown than Asaro and has been a huge help for me. I attached a photo of the page, but if you don't have a copy of the book I'd say it's a "must read" for comic book art and I go back to it all the time. :)
Paul Olsen
4yr
Ah, the Buscema Bible:) I have the book, will review it! Thanks for the tip!
It's cool to see all this, @Paul Olsen. Seems you've been relatively comfortable drawing structured figures from imagination! I guess a few loose gestures might help nicely complement a batch of sketches like this. And, in case you're up for something to move on to now, I'd say getting to a deeper level of head anatomy would probably be an awesome addition to your current skillset.
Also, gotta say, the Environmentalist reminded me a lot of Captain Planet - whoa, I liked that show so much as a kid! :D
Never heard of captain planet, but it looks like a cool character😎
Yes, the features of the head is really hard for me. I feel like I have a fairly good grasp of the initial head construction (I could be wrong...), but to get the features right I probably need to study the minor planes more, and especially nose construction. Maybe I should focus on that for a while. Any tips? Just draw this 3D model over and over from different angles?
lately I haven’t been drawing as much as I want to, but still, the papers pile up! Here is a big mess of mannequinisation, half finished sketches and even a couple of finished ones:) Some drawn from photo references, some from a mannequin doll and some from imagination. General tips are most welcome!
Christopher Lebreault
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Loomis head study dump. I feel like I are grasping the concept better now, but I'm still missing on some key things. I cannot pinpoint what though
It looks like you are thinking of the front plane as completely flat, like a box. Think of it as a cylindar instead. On the 4th. sheet, the brow- nose and mouth lines should curve aound that cylinder. Also, if you look at the top drawing on the 3rd. sheet, the middle line should curve over the top of the skull.
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in almost all of these drawing I made the fingers too long in the initial skeleton drawings. Especially # 1 and 5. I tried to compensate for it, but I really didn't see how bad it was until after I was done. I guess I need to practice my eyes more.
PS: I think the Proko team should review the reference pictures for these hands. The fingers are not set in a natural position at all. It is especially clear when you look at the thumb on #1, whitch I had to redesign completely. You have to break your thumb for that one...ouch!
Very nice job. I think 3 and 4 are the best ones. I agree with Liandro, who gave you a very good feedback.
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Great job, @Paul Olsen! All drawings look nice to me as a bundle, but I'd say #1 is my favorite - I really like how you showed that skin stretch near the thumb (so I guess it was a good thing that you had to come up with a solution of your own after all... instead of sticking with a pre-made reference). As a suggestion, perhaps you might wanna take it a bit easier on the wrinkles (in #4, for example, the wrinkles on the index finger look a bit more like lines drawn on top of the skin rather than skin wrinkles) - so see if you can add even more line variety, make some of the wrinkles more subtle in terms of value and thickness. You might also experiment making contour lines a bit more subtle, not so hardly outlined, especially when there are lit planes nearby, such as in the region of the forearm flexors in #5. And still on #5, what feels just a bit weird to me is that the middle finger (and I guess the ring finger too) might be a bit too big, thick and long compared to the palm and the other fingers. Another thing: see if it helps to design this middle finger with a stronger sense of gesture in mind, how the top edge of the palm flows smoothly into it - maybe the finger joints could be a bit less angular so that gesture doesn't feel too "interrupted" or broken. Other than that, I really like how the shadows really help show the forms in your drawings. Very cool! Keep up the good work \o/
Hello Paul Olsen
I like your construction the hands. I can see how the hands, especially the fingers are located in space!
No. 5 Confuses me: But It's not because the fingers a probably too long. It's hard to guess what form the palm actually have. Maybe you can emphasis the plane change of the palm a little bit more.
Paul Olsen
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I got inspired by this video, and wanted to try some cross hatching for myself. But as you can see, I ended up doing very little cross hatching on this one.... I just felt that adding to much would take away the feminine feel of it. Instead I stole many ideas from some of @David Finch 's other videos regarding texture. These videos are awesome! Links below.
Regarding the anatomy, perhaps I should have made her pelvis a little wider and her legs and arms a little thinner to make her look more feminine? Comments are most welcomed!
https://youtu.be/MPXmeszwvhQ
https://youtu.be/7cVUyIZ3rvE
Making her curvy would increase her feminine qualities but I'm not sure I'd thin her arms too much since she's a warrior, right? Maybe reference some photos of female athletes to get an idea of the body type you want. I like the texture, details and the sense of energy in her pose. It feels like something is about to happen, which draws me into it.
She does look a bit short for heroic proportions, which is more like 8.5 heads tall or so and she is maybe a bit broad shouldered/narrow hipped, but not outside the band of how a "hero" could be drawn so I think it's ok. Really I think what I would suggest is creating more depth of form. It feels very contour centric as opposed to constructed from 3D shapes (cubes/cylinders).
James Mayr
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I did this exercise before watching the instruction (not shown here) after watching the instruction, and without watching the solution.
I'm really sorry for the picture quality. My scanner was not able to scan a light pencil sketch. So I took the pictures with my smartphone and increased the contrast).
Maybe there are some advice how I can improve scanning light pencil sketches.
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@Liandro Roger
I think my ellipses sucks. there are two cases that are still hard for me to draw:
1. finding the correct degree of the ellipse
2. the shape of the ellipse
I don't think that I don't understand the linear perspective. ( I watched @Marshall Vandruff 12$ course - nice summary btw - and every chapter was just a confirmation that I understand the linear perspective (a nice feeling), I read "how to draw" from Robertson and it feels clear for me and I did the 250 boxes challenge on drawabox (a really nice exercise), but that was for boxes...)
I read on the internet that ellipse guides are a nice way to train the drawing of a proper ellipse. but they are so damn expensive. Is it really worth it to spend that much money? Because when I'm doing a performance task (e.g. a project) I draw digitally. I draw just for practice analog).
ok the question is what are your advices / expericenes to improve drawing ellipse shapes and the correct degree of the ellipse? Maybe you are knowing some exercise for a deliberate practice exercise with a fast feedback loop. (For me it's hard to figure out if that degree or share is correct. (if I draw the ellipse in a cube I need to figure out first if the box is really a cube - It sound's for me like an egg hen problem.)
Hey James!
You know, there are elipse exercises on drawabox. I am struggeling with the same thing, and I sometimes draw a box first, than fit the elipse inside it. It helps!
And I would also like to get some tips on scanning. I have stoped using the scanner completely. No matter how much I tweek it in photoshop, I can't get it right. I find the smartphone-method a lot better. Just make shure you have good lighting, and keep the phone straight so that you don't skew the drawing.
