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Morphex
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Did some digging and found alot of stuff and some that i posted early on. But here are some that i like and would love to be able to replicate in my own style in the future. The once that i really want to be able to draw are the once with characters in them.
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are these eyelashes correctly placed?24d
Just want some help with an image i am working on and i'm having a hard time with these eyelashes. Specificly because i dont know if there correctly placed or not. Would love some help here. Thanks.
PS sry for the bad image quality.
1mo
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drew the pear again, have done this before but it was a long time ago now. Tell me how i did. ^^ Would love the feedback.
3mo
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I am very new to art but i want to learn and master perspective so that i can move on to more advanced stuff later on. I will have to look upp some perspective masters for study.
Btw is it okay if the images i pick are from say example a comic or a manga?
Aslong as its a persective shot and it is good right?
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some more that i forgot to post.
Hi there! I am not the best artist in the world, but I've done a lot of gesture drawing work, and it seems to me that you're putting a lot of effort into getting accurate forms of the body and your gestures are suffering a little bit because of it. I would suggest doing some VERY quick timed gesture drawings, around 15 seconds, to force yourself to really focus in on the FEELING of movement in the pose. When you only have time to do a stick figure, all you are able to do is focus on the feeling!
Once you start to exaggerate what you see and forego 'accuracy', you'll really be on the way to getting some great gestures done. I also recommend reading 'FORCE' by Mike Mattesi, if you can get your hands on it. His (and his students') gesture drawings are amazing, and he does a wonderful job of explaining the thought process behind them.
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my gesture drawings that i have done. Would love some feedback.3mo
Most of these are new. maybe a day old.
Hey there. Sorry to hear you’re facing such struggles. Honestly I think the learning curve with art is horribly long. The people you see that are improving and learning faster than you most likely were already drawing a LOT more before even starting a course. Not to say you shouldn’t take a course, but that the people you see doing so well probably developed hand eye coordination, line quality, and observation skills on their own a bit.
This is my own personal experience, but sometimes as course or path just isn’t right at the moment. I’ve gotten in a rut trying to follow the process of an artist and eventually realizing it wasn’t for me. Either it didn’t make sense or their teaching didn’t click with me. Maybe check out some other instructional videos and see if they make more sense to you.
I feel like master copies could potentially be beneficial for you. When I was little I would copy cartoon panels and it really helped my observation skills. Finding simple but good head drawings to copy might help things to click.
Changing it up might help too. Are there other things you like to draw? Drawing flowers from life doesn’t directly help my art skills but I really enjoy it so I do it when I feel like it. For me, drawing the same thing day after day would be upsetting. Everyone is different but that could be what contributed to you feeling down. I’m working on figure drawing right now, but I still draw whatever random things I enjoy.
Sorry you're feeling frustrated. What videos have you watched? Have you taken a course from the beginning to the end? Diving the head into 3 parts is just one of many, many steps to get an accurate portrait. You have to watch the relative sizes and positions to everything else, making plum lines, straight and horizontal, and any direction of lines between any two spots, like corner of the eye to the tip of the mouse. Everything has to line up in order to get an accurate portrait.
If you haven't watched the portrait course from the beginning to the end, please do. It goes much further than dividing the head into 3.
Morphex
4mo
I have watched alot of videos about alot of things and topics Mostly Marc Brunet / drawlikeasir and ofc Proko. But it doesnt seem to help sadly. I know i have to do the work. And i am. Its just no matter how much i practice line's perspective, drawing from life drawing the things around me tapered strokes you name it. I just cant seem to find what i am doing wrong. PS tbf i havent drawn alot from real life. AKA going outside and draw people and objects. I am just soo uncomfortable with the topic of just going out and stare att people and try to draw them.
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PS. sry for the bad image quality.