Urban Sketching
3d
Jakub Ziomek
Hello, I've been doing these for a few years and noticed that when I began I tend to go more into details and shading, and as far as I practiced, started to simplify more (and being able to draw both people and environment in 15-30 minutes).
Overall I want to say, the most challenging part is when have a blank page an need to fill it with composition.
Also wonder if this more loose way of drawing could be a good start for developing a style.
I've also done some comics with a goal to learn to draw from imagination, recently done few illustrations (nsfw), but I probably cannot post it here I guess :)
Thank you for any comments and feedback,
Jakub
This reminds me of drawing exercises we would do in figure drawing class: sketching figure poses in different time intervals (30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc. working up to 30-minute sketches). The point of the exercise, especially the shorter time limits, was to focus on capturing the essence of the pose before drowning in details (it also worked muscle memory). I think your drawing exercises may be doing something similar since even in the absence of abundant detail your drawings are capturing what in my opinion is the most important thing in an art piece: "Feelings" (depicted in expressions of characters and the the sense of the atmosphere in the environment captured even with the loose strokes)
I miss these fast sketches (we had a meetings with figure drawing, and I was struggling a lot back then). I still got problems with anatomy, especialy hands (I guess the trick is to make an illusion of correctness, not to draw the details). But I'm not sure; maybe I should back to more polished studies.
I tried to overpaint two of these, found playing with light and shadow a lot of fun :)
