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Marco Sordi
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2023/3/29. Good morning everybody. Here's my latest assignment from Patrick Jones e-book "The Anatomy of Style". Thanks.
Milan Čičković
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I just pushed contrast with photoshop a little bit, 1 min of work. Really wanted to see how it would look, for my taste, it does need it (more black). Amazing work Marco!
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My first attempt, i tried to simplify them, but i think i overcomplicated the dog one. Need some feedback on this..
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In my image, I have shown the measurement of the dog and your image(didn't go full-on with analysis). It's good to go way back, back before -form- and simplify form and shapes. The lines that I have shown in the image help with orientation and observation of how big the shapes are of the subject that you wish to draw. You can use lines as 1. angles (helps with an orientation where things should be) like in the face of the dog or 2. flow like the line of the leg, belly all the way up the head of the dog, or 3. the lines of the paw, for example, can determine how tall something is what is the distance. The more you map the drawing the more you will see without even drawing lines, it will become natural and you will be able to copy almost anything it's an excellent first step in getting used to shapes and forms. But my example can be dangerous because it can put you in a safe bubble of copy-paste on the other hand it's really useful if you do not overreact with it. Hope it helps.
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Hey Milan,
I like your image and concept and your figure has nice gesture.
One of the main things I am seeing in your composition is that all the elements are separate from each other and don't relate. Also, they don't draw the eye into and around the image.
I did a quick sketch that I hope helps and will show you some things you could do to help your composition :)
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This is really good! Elements you call them, didn't even think about it. Big 2D shapes as forms. This is gold pal! Thank you!
This is just my opinion, I believe that problem is right there when you say I can't be like them. You should not be like them, you can like it love it and so on but be yourself. For me the hardest part in art is to find yourself or in other words accept yourself.
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Help with composition1yr
I need help around with "what to do next", this drawing is almost all from imagination and I like that but it sucks with composition, I can't find anything good for that topic. I always get stuck when I need to finish a drawing. I love Eliza Ivanova and her simple approach to shading and line control, now I do not expect to copy or for my lines to be like hers but when I zoom out the image is way to busy its not clean. I would like my drawings to be clean and direct like Eliza for example. Tryed to study and observe her work but I truly do not understand what to look for anymore. Any critique is welcome or directions where I could go with this.
Pete Mohrbacher, Eliza Ivanova, Roberto Ferri, Andrey Samarin
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Hello pen gang !
Trying myself at robo beaning tell me what you think and how to get better ;)
Thanks and keep rocking
Sorry for the poor photo quality
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My recommendation would be Marc Leone on YouTube he has beautiful tutorial on perspective for beginners. (Or @Marshall Vandruff ) Then try again with robo bean. Understanding perspective is really important without it you can't find proper center of forms or bend them in space.
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What happened to Oktober challenge is it cancelled?
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I have a question about proportional measuring. When you do the head length measuring technique, how do you remember which proportion goes with what in the figure when you progress with the drawing? Do i just take a mental note, go for it and make mistakes to correct it later, or is it okay to mark the image every time to remember?
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I like hale measurement method, ghosting circles across figure can give good results but later on refine, depends on pose difficulty. Two circles for end of neck 2 for chest 3 for upper leg and so on just google Robert Hale. A combination of gesture, bean simplified volumetric forms of chest arms legs. But if you just want to measure from a reference then all above is not important just find key points like end of the shoulder and end of the chin or ear anything that stabs your eye, remember the path (line) and draw the ghosted long line the more angles you cover lines will cross each other don't think about figure just measurement 2d planes latter on try new things. Mesurment is best with fruits anything that you have in house place them together and just measure. Have fun
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Quick drawing messy I am at work 😃 had to hurry. Basically what you need is really good perspective knowledge, to train your self to think in 3d. I would start with box like the drawing understand 2d practice ellipses then box then try sphere, hope it helps
