Henrique Romão Saito
Earth
I'm a self tought artist who started learning 3d, but realized how the art fundamentals are important and now I'm focusing on them.
Henrique Romão Saito
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Updates from my anatomy studies, any critique?11d
Now focusing more on correcting proportions and balance.
Hey Henry,
Your structural drawings are looking pretty good. You are maintaining for the most part the gesture of the pose.
The issue I'm seeing the most is proportion. Heads are too big, and limbs are too short and a few of the drawings are off balance.
I gave notes on the ones that I thought needed the most attention, but some of these are pretty nice :)
Henrique Romão Saito
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Thanks again for the critique, I didin't pay much attention to balance until now, but I'm happy my gestures are good, I will do more now paying more attention to balance and proportions.
Hey, these look pretty good, your really creating some 3D feel. Just be careful that you don't loose all the gesture or make the contour too complicated.
I took one of your drawings and did a quick sketch to show you what I mean :)
1mo
Yes, there are alternatives, but draw a box really does make your path easier than if you had to read a book on the subject, for beginners on perspective I really don't see a better alternative, and it really helps if you want to start with more complicated books like "How to draw" by Scott Robertson.
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Theses look very 3 dimensional for the most part, but I think you are drawing these using a very distorted perspective.
I can tell you are using a vanishing point with these, and the problem is that with small objects especially, if the vanishing point is too close to the object you get odd distortions.
I would suggest using an intuitive perspective, meaning create a box that looks good and follows the rules of perspective, then use it as the framework for your drawing. I did a couple of very sloppy examples to show you how you can do this, I hope it helps :)
Thanks, I actually didn't do any vanishing points, but now that you're pointing it out I realize the horrible consequences when practicing the 250 boxes challenge with the imaginary vanishing points too close, and now this habit has shown its consequences, I'll practice now being more careful for not distorting too much and doing more boxes again.
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Looking for critiques on construction drawing2mo
Now focusing on non-organic objects.
These are so much clearer and dimensional then your last ones because the shapes are much simpler. Keep at it :)
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Looking for critiques on construction drawing2mo
New studies using animals but simplyfying the shapes
Your thinking the right way, breaking down the forms into shapes, but your using shapes that are too complex. Simplify the shapes and don't pay too much attention to all the anatomy and bumps of the silhouette. Break it into shapes that you know. Good exercise to do by the way, keep it up :)
Thanks for the critique, I'll make more exercises focucing on simple shapes, and post it here.
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Loooking for critic on construction drawing.2mo
Practicing construction with insects and focusing on 3d shapes, not 2d.
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Machine drawings.2mo
A couple of machine drawings I made for study hope this helps me in the future when drawing mechas, any critics on the perspective part?
4mo
It's good to see you are still working hard on these Henrique.
One thing I want to say about your values is that you are making some of the shadows too dark. The reason is because you are not thinking about all the light that would be bouncing around the environment of your still life.
Remember this statement: "All surfaces that receive light, become a light source"
What that means is that even if you have a single light source lighting your objects, the light reflecting off of the other elements in your image will also become a light source because of all the light bouncing off of them.
The only time this doesn't apply is when you have ambient occlusion because no light, even bounce light, can not get there.
I did a quick diagram to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
Thank you so much, I was so much focused on trying to have a good line quality and form, that I completely misguided the porpuse of the shading exersises