Eddie Blake
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seals from memory
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Hey I'm new here and I really wanna sketch and draw I'm a little bit good at my drawing but I really wanna improve my art work also to figure out my art style
Eddie Blake
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Don’t worry about style. Too many people gravitate toward that (or what they think that is) and it becomes an awful crutch. Style is the exaggeration of fundamentals. You need to learn them to have style. When you don’t have them, it shows. Yet many people will argue that the flaws of their drawings are actually their style. This slows progress as an artist because you don’t allow yourself to take critique if you think defensively.
I don’t really think my art has “style”, but I have made this same mistake numerous times in other areas of my life. I simply refused mastery of any actual skill, in favor of excuses. Delicious excuses. Now I’m fat with wasted potential.
Don't be like me.
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I think your drawing of “jinx” is an improvement over the others in one area. The energy is the lines is better. In the copies of Jose Garcia’s work you are careful to copy lines as you see them but his are quick and confident even extending past the actual form like in the brow ridge.
On that same drawing though it looks like you drew lines around the shadows then hatched it in. Jose’s drawings do have lines around the crosshatching, but they aren’t actually blocking in shadows from what I’m seeing.
It looks like Jose has drawn in lines that suggest the shape of the skull, then he crosshatched in the shadows. which happen to be very related in this exaggerated lighting scenario.
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I put a really bad tangent in the last chicken. I didn’t see it until I looked at it so small in the thumbnail. To fix it I think I’d redraw the line pointing toward the chicken’s eye, for a compositional bonus. More like the other head I drew in the first picture.
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I chose Claire Wendling. I know the facial proportions are horrifying, but at least I tried. :)
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Conan after Karl Kopinski, mermaid after Claire Wendling. I was very disappointed with Conan. I teared up with my disappointment. So today I had to clean the slate, I feel better about the second.
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hierarchy of importance method.
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The thumbnail was good. After that I just lost interest in drawing this idea.
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Id like opinions on these thankyou
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I like the energy that you have in the curve of the seal body. The one that’s whipping its head to the right. I’ve seen these guys in the wild because I live near the coast. It’s very true to life.
Hey Eddy,
The biggest thing I see right now in your work is a lack of structure. You are going into details before you build a good foundation of structure, perspective and proportion. I did a couple of quick sketches to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
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It is! I have noticed that I will commit to certain lines, then I add more detail, before I fix problem areas. By the time I come back to them, sometimes it’s just a bit late to do anything about it. At least not without redrawing all the stuff I committed to. Like the hand on the punching halfling. The one that’s at her side is completely wrong, but I sort of liked it anyway, and just let it slide.
I know the origin of a lot of the things you pointed out, and it’s kind of funny, I always tell novice artists that detail won’t hide mistakes. Yet I’m still doing that too.
I drew a bodybuilder with the intent of using it as a study. But I drew over it to add the fantasy elements, then ended up just layer masking the original. I just couldn’t let the details go. 😂
Thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it.
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I’ve been cheating the fundamentals for so long.8mo
I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. However, I always sort of assumed that accurate shading and shadow planes would be some thing I would do when I wasn’t sketching, and it would be easy. So for years, I put the same shadow under the chin, regardless of the shape of the head, or Angle of the light source. I rarely put effort into actually studying the craft.
However, now that I am older, I am trying to re-dedicate myself to the fundamentals, and I feel as though my drawing is improving rapidly. However, one of the things I am having a really hard time finding, is a group of people who I can trust to give me honest, critique, and who can take critique in return. That is half the reason I am taking a Proko course. I am looking to level up my art not have people tell me that everything is fine . Most non-artists look at my work and don’t have anything critical to say. However, in order to level up, I need knowledgeable feedback. I will post a few drawings that represent the quality and progression of my work over the last year or so.
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Warm up for lvl 2
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The instructions were pretty simple but I found myself asking how flat a c curve can get before it’s no longer a c curve. So I basically just drew boots.
I would consider everything I drew to be a contour, not detail. I almost never use different graphite hardnesses unless it’s graphite crayon. So when I used this 4b lead in my 2mm mechanical pencil… I really didn’t like how it felt on this paper.
