Ballerina digital painting
3yr
Alexandre Morais
I was experimenting on some poses, and I found this one particularly interesting, so I tried to work more on it. Any feedbacks or tips to improve on my next studies? I think I made the left leg too long and I really messed up the head proportions. (second image is my refence)
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Yiming Wu
I think you could use a bit more "lean back" for the left leg, but otherwise it looks okay to me. You can take liberty for some proportions. If you want the image to look less "stiff", you could try introduce some irregularities on the illuminated shapes. If you look at the knee and the shoulder, or any "connecting" parts, the muscle actually forms some interesting shapes there, so it breaks the "big geometric" shapes at those positions. that way it's more dynamic, and you'll have big/small detail contrast.
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Alexandre Morais
thanks ^^
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Bradwynn Jones
nice study! The feet look a bit too small and the pose is just a bit too stiff. Maybe try to sketch it out as a gesture and see if you can find a more flowing feeling in the pose.
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Alexandre Morais
I actually started with a gesture drawing, but I guess I stiffened a little bit while painting xD Thanks man
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Gabriel Kahn
Hey there! Great work so far, I love the cleanness. I should work on your shadows a bit more. The skin tends to be darker in general. If you check out the reference, you can see that the darkest parts of the skin, are almost the same darkness as the lighter parts of the hair. So in general you can afford to make the shadows much darker. Keep up the good work! :)
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Alexandre Morais
Yeah, I felt that she was too light as well. I think I get a little lost with the reflected lights
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Steve Lenze
Hey Alexandre, This is pretty cool, I really like the pose. The issue with your drawing is that it is unbalanced. Most of her weight is past the support foot. This gives the impression that she is going to fall over, and because you drew her leg straight it stiffens the pose. I did a draw over to show you what I mean, I hope it is helpful :)
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Alexandre Morais
You made it so clear now, thanks! Next time I'll try to keep them more balanced
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Sonja Müller
I think you cought the proportions and forms great. I am not sure if I can really help, but I think what is missing are the forces that work on the reference. It shows how much energy the woman needs, how every part of the body is working to keep that pose, you practically see that a movement will follow. The foot is binded way more, the balance point in your drawing is too far behind her foot. I think it is way easier to catch this if the artist did sports himself, if he can FEEL the pose (of course not to that professional extent, but a basic feeling for what is happening). For me it helps to focus on my own body feeling when I imagine a pose, even a more casual, e.g. floating under water or whatever. I know not a very practical advice, I hope it still is a bit helpful.
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Alexandre Morais
well, I cant stand on the tip of my feet as a ballet dancer xD But I get what u mean, i'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
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