Carlos Javier Roo Soto
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2mo
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I haven't practice structure in a while, and since I'm working as a Live Caricature, I want to improve my exaggerations and anatomy, so I'm going back to basics starting with the overall head. Any advice you can give? You see anything I have got to work on?
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My artist is Mr @Ryan Benjamin. I love his work!. Doing this I realized the next course should be either human body or figure drawing. I'm not quite sure if I suffered more with the eyes or the mouth... anyway this was pretty fun!!. @Stan Prokopenko check this out pleeease :-)
Carlos Javier Roo Soto
7mo
Somehow, yours has more expression than the original.
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9mo
For me a cartoon is an exaggerated truth for comedic effect, and serious story both told with dynamic and/or funny shapes that make distinct characters and worlds.
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Hi, I'm currently working as a Live Caricature Artist on a theme park and I'm only been doing it since November. I also never use the Market we use for the job before then, and I want some advice on these eyes practice I did today and what you see needs work?
Hi, I'm currently working as a Live Caricature Artist on a theme park and I'm only been doing it since November. I also never use the Market we use for the job before then, and I want some advice on these eyes practice I did today and what you see needs work?
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Hello. I recently got a job as a Caricature artist on a theme park, so I decided to reinforce my head drawing fundamentals. Forgive the HD quality of these images, but I don't have a good lighting available right now. Any advice that could help me out would be great.
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Here's my final illustration of my skull character. Skullcrack, an skulldemon-possessed antihero. And the photo I used for reference. I did what I could with what I have. I repost this again, because I didn't realize before that the scanner app that I use put this ugly tag on the bottom corner and I have to use Photoshop to remove it.
And here is all the prep-work I have time to do, I wish I could haver refine the design more.
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Another follow up to my Skull character, this time I'm roughing the face. Right now only #1 and #5 seem to be working for me. The character is an Anti-hero fused with a demon skull, I don't want it to be very Ghost Rider-ish, so I want the skull to feel more like a helmet or mask. I try using Bruce Timm style as a based for the design but not a full on copy, is mostly working for the body, but I'm quite please with the general direction of the face.
I want to try to finish the design by tomorrow so I can start thumbnailing the composition on Monday. What advice can you give me?
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Here's a follow up to my previous post of the Skull character, I did some silhouettes to work the shape design. Right now, #5 is the one that is working for me. What do you think?
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Here's my first pair of rough ideas for Anti-hero for the challenge, I want to end in a ink composition, so I'm working the design of the character first, but I haven't draw in a while and I'm doing these out of my head, and I'm never sure what drawing aspect to work on while doing this, also I feel like a have this bad habit of rushing things trough. Also whenever I try to draw from imagination I end up defaulting to the same boring pose and angles. Any advice on what to work on here other than using reference? Because I am going to do that too.
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They look good, you are definitively simplifying to the basic forms without getting distracted by the contours too much. I don't know about animal anatomy but I feel like in the 2nd bear and the big cat of your third page are little stretch out in the zone between their pelvis and rib cages, but without the reference photos I can't know for sure, but in any case you did good job, i think the biggest thing here are the perspective of the building blocks themselves and the proportions, but the perspective would improve when you start actually focus on studying perspective specifically and you'll learn about proportions and measurement later on in the course.
Keep drawing boxes and cylinders from life and start practicing drawing them from imagination, maybe watch moderndayjames videos on basic perspective to keep in mind while you do this and maybe do a couple more pages of these animal simplifications. Overall you are ready to move on to the next class.
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After a long enough hiatus, I getting back to drawing, and I'm committing to finish this course first. I'm going to move on to Structure now, but I'm leaving this here for critique and it's because every time I revisit this course I always get stuck on the quick sketches stuff for comfort but not this time, this time *slam-the-table is serious business. So let me know what you think?
One last page that didn't went through before because of the 10 images per submission limit thingy
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Lots beans. Still struggling with the charcoal. Stan also seems to make the beans shorter and fatter compared to reference to exaggerate the overlap and squishing. I can't help myself and tend to make skinnier beans with less overlap. Also because it is a sphere as a base it doesn't change in perspective so it feels like the same drawing over and over again.
Alright Felix, these are not bad, but there are 2 major things to improve here, the 1st is size, these are way to small and that size limit is stopping you from pushing the poses further, 2nd is line quality, now this is something you are going to improve over time but it would not kill you before your start your drawing session to fill a page or 2 of circles and ovals in various sizes and widths.
Here's what I want you to do:
#1- Draw bigger --you don't need to a bigger sketchbook, thou I would recommend it-- you can just draw bigger but less-per-page poses in the same sketchbook, not only you'll have more space to push the poses but you'll also visualize better the result before putting pen to paper.
#2- What I said before about filling pages with circles and ovals, this are warm-ups that would help you loosing up before drawing. And you need to learn to draw using your whole arm specially from the shoulder so you have a bigger range of motion. Stan has a video about drawing from your shoulder, and there are several others on the internet about the topic. And you need to draw from your shoulder to your whole arm if you want to draw bigger drawings because the wrist and fingers have a more limited range and motion. Also train yourself to draw with softer and cleaner lines with just a few strokes, so you have a less messy drawing, then you can add harder lines on the contour of the bean and wrinkles.
#3- Get different photo reference, I see many of these are from the examples Stan puts here. And that's good, humans learn by copying what others do, however this is something we should not abuse. Now we have knowledge but we need to know how to apply it on our own in order to keep it. So look for photo references that don't have a bean drawing next to them and draw YOUR onw bean of them, And do 30sec to 1min poses because like the Gesture exercise it would train you to ignore the details and focus completely on the motion of the torso.
Here are so good library of poses and you can subscribe for free and they won't ask for your credit card. https://community2.lovelifedrawing.com/c/reference-library/
Good luck.
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Hi. So I'm starting to getting back on art after a pain induced hiatus, this are the first 2 sketches I had done in months. The first one is from imagination and the other is a copy. What do you think I need to work on now?
QUESTION: Do you think is harder for visual artists to succeed on YouTube now compare to when Stan started his Channel? Should artist even bother with YouTube right now?
QUESTION: So, do you people actually like Christian or do you hate him? Because sometimes I feel like you just keep him around to bully him now that Skelly is gone.
QUESTION: I like drawing, painting digitally and write stories, but I feel like I don't really have an important messages to say. Do you think I'll fail at all of this if I don't have anything meaningful to say?
QUESTION: Any advice on how to get back when you have had to stop because of physical issues?
QUESTION: Is this dragon a Disckworld reference? Have you read "Guards! Guards!"?
I asked for health issues by the way. Wrist pain and that sort of stuff. Not so much from burnout but, would be the same?