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If anyone wants to critique this still life, that would be much appreciated!
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Still life Sunday’s27d
I’m doing a challenge to get better at still lives, so I welcome anyone who wants to improve to join me!
1mo
To address your frustration with your still life skills -- it's a muscle, and you can't expect a muscle that gets less exercise to be as strong as a muscle that you work out all the time. Don't sweat it! If you like doing still lives, do more still lives. And if you don't, try to be realistic about your expectations. Learning fundamentals and principles will give you transferrable skills that can improve your still life, but unless you practice consistently, you just won't have the mileage. And if you don't enjoy doing it, why have the mileage?
I really like this composition! I personally would group the black box with the shadow shape on the table cloth because they are so similar in value. I do like how you separated the plum from the box by fading it out, it looks really interesting. Nice work :)
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1mo
Thank you so much!!!
1mo
If you are going to render the values, you should render all the values- that includes the table and the background. That is the only way to properly judge if your values are correct.
1mo
I tried my best, but honestly I wasn’t sure how to go about it? Like should I have drawn the pattern, because I don’t think I’d be able to do that honestly, but the stripes count as values right?
1mo
Yeah you’re right, I need to stop avoiding fabrics. When I’m drawing something, if I see fabric I immediately ignore it, I’m gonna go face my fears, wish me luck
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Still life critique1mo
It’s been a little while since I did a still life so I thought why not practice? I think I should consider doing a still life at least once week because I think I have a lot of room for improvement which is kind of frustrating because I thought I’d be a little farther in my drawing journey since it’s almost been 2 years since I started. But they say critiques are the best way to improve so anyone who sees this, please give it to me straight lol
7mo
Hey toph,
Your proportions look pretty good and your poses are good. The issue I am seeing is that you need to focus more on the gesture of the pose. You do this by finding a gestural "S" or "C" curve that describes the pose from top to bottom as well as the limbs. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
7mo
@Steve Lenze I see, get a little too focused on the details, how did you get the figure to have things like an elbow and calf while still making the lines fluid a continuous? (I hope my tone doesn’t come off defensively or anything! If it does I apologize I tend to write on the more formal side)
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7mo
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I was hoping that anyone who sees this post could tell me what I’m doing wrong? I can’t tell if I’ve improved…at all, but I’m biased so. On the left are my earliest attempts and on the right are my most current gesture drawings. Btw feel free to be totally honest, I won’t be discouraged or upset.
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1yr
Day 2. Struggling with drawing confident lines, both straight and curvy. Also with making sure I have an even tone. But I will keep chugging on.
1yr
I think it looks pretty good! Drawing circles is tough though since you can’t measure it the way you would with a straight line. My approach is to create a box that the circle can then sit inside of. I do this by mesuring out the “verticle” and “horizontal” of whatever round object I’m observing.I hope this made sense
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