Foot study
3yr
Nick Lyre
So I followed Proko's anatomical foot study drawing and came up with this one. Requesting a critique for this one, pls. I'm also specifically interested in some digital brush advise. I'm using photoshop mainly, and I think this illustration turned out a bit messy because of the brush that I used. If anyone knows where I can find a cool pensil immitating PS brush, pretty please let me know (also a charcoal one would be awesome).
3yr
Hi Eleftheria, your technique of translating the traditional graphite quality to digital is gorgeous.
For this critique I referenced Proko's original demo of this foot pose. The Lateral Malleolus (ankle bone) has a flat side plane which is rounded in your drawing. In the muscle/tendon design lecture he emphasized flatter, plane forms for tendons and bony landmarks. Exploring contrast/exaggeration between round shapes and flats could be interesting for a dynamic sculptural effect. For boxiness, remember that the gradient of the shadow is higher contrast between lights and darks to imply a sharp plane change.
These "painterly" digital brushes are free on Artstation: Aaron Griffin, Rutkowski, Craig Mullins (goodbrush), Satish Kumar
Best of luck!
Nick Lyre
3yr
thnx for the critique, I've got some of thgose brushes, though Grzegorz Ritkowski's brushes are not free + I've worked a lot with some good free brushes and also made my own so now I've got a pretty good library (though there's another problem now, the library is so big now that I, sometimes, get lost within the diversity of brushes that I have :))
3yr
Nice work! I think the linework looks pretty good, but I agree that pencil brushes can be a little tricky. I have made some pencil brushes before in Photoshop. I think some important things are that opacity jitter and size jitter are set to pen pressure. That way the line gets darker and thicker as you press harder.
