boots

Spent a lot of time on the proportions and shoelace.

I redid the project after watching the demos, and the blocking out that stan does at the start of these pictures is actually really helpful! It helped me get a rough idea of the shape, and all I've had to do is just draw everything on top of it, making tweaks as I please. It also allows me to be more accurate, as if I spend a bit of time in the blocking stage, I'll get the perspective and proportions right, plus, simplify the shapes in a way that makes my time drawing a lot easier. I can definitely see the improvement from my previous post. I tried to watch out for my curves a lot more, and if something started being a mix of two types of lines, I drew them as two seperate lines. For the snail, I drew the sketch on top of the blockout, so you can kind of see how I went about it, and the changes I made when doing the sketches. I'm the most proud of the boots. It looks pretty accurate to the picture reference, aside from the laces, which I didn't bother trying to make perfect.

Boots before and after watching the demo

I found the snail to be easy to work on but the boots were a lot trickier, I don’t think I’m good at adding that much detail yet

Second try, drawing along with the demo! Man, those laces are really difficult to draw 😂

Snail before and after video.

Tried again after watching the Demo. This time with one of my old birthday cards that I kept.

Here's my snail after viewing the demo

Here's my before and after the demo snail and boots drawing. The boots were very hard.

I felt really good about the snail after implementing the simplify strategy. Also generally about the boots but I have to admit, it's late at night and I ran out of steam. Then again, I don't think we were really intended to do a bold outline but I liked how that left shoe looked so much that I raelly wanted to do it! I feel like I'm grasping simplification at this point.

This project helped me be confident in my lines! I had to erase but it was fun! I’m watching the video now and follow it.

My attempt at pre & post drawings. I found the shoe laces quite challenging and noticed I got a bit impatient drawing them!

Shoes definitly felt like level 2 .. took me a while. snail looks odd...

this was so hard, this is before the demo

Something definitely clicked after watching the demo. Describing the motion as "pulling" when putting a line down really helped relax my lines a little. I don't know why lol Anyway, before and afters (before on top):