@mark_donovan
@mark_donovan
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NSFW artist wannabe.
@mark_donovan
Hello there. I'm not 100% sure what you'd like us to critic, but lemme give you some general observation, hopefully I'll be able to assist you. 1.- It feels like you are trying to do many exercises and studies at once. Gesture, anatomy, line management (if you will), figure drawing, and even some basic rendering. It's true that a finished work must have a lot of basic elements or "fundamentals" at once to be more that a simple practice, but when we are learning and practicing the very foundations is better is we first focus on one at a time to do the best with our mental energy and time. Choose one aspect you wanna improve and judge your results based on that. Over time you'll be able to do exercises that will be more and more complex and rich. 2.- The line is messy, and you seem to use only one or two types of them. For a gesture exercise is good a simple line so you can focus on the idea of gesture alone, but since you even added some details to Spiderman, I'd say you wanna make more that a gesture exercise. 2.-The proportions look bad, I'm afraid the only thing I can say about that is that you should be more careful and use light marks on the paper to measure them. 3.- The light and shadow don't have a clear separation. Remember that our job as artist is to transmit a clear to the viewer. Dorian Iten and Steven Zapata have course that are really good to understand light and it's usefulness for the artist. 4.- Your drawings drawings remind me of my own works when I don't understand the subject well enough and don't take in consideration their tridimentionality. When that happens I can't find ways to create a believable representation of them on a 2D surface. Don't forget that art is to some extend a lie and the artist a lier, we must understand the real version well enough so we can change it and make it "sound" believable and/or interesting. Check Antonio Stappaerts' video on Proko's channel to get the idea of tridimentionality. Get the course if you can afford it, if not Moderndayjames has some videos that I've found useful.
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@mark_donovan
Hello there. I'm not 100% sure what you'd like us to critic, but lemme give you some general observation, hopefully I'll be able to assist you. 1.- It feels like you are trying to do many exercises and studies at once. Gesture, anatomy, line management (if you will), figure drawing, and even some basic rendering. It's true that a finished work must have a lot of basic elements or "fundamentals" at once to be more that a simple practice, but when we are learning and practicing the very foundations is better is we first focus on one at a time to do the best with our mental energy and time. Choose one aspect you wanna improve and judge your results based on that. Over time you'll be able to do exercises that will be more and more complex and rich. 2.- The line is messy, and you seem to use only one or two types of them. For a gesture exercise is good a simple line so you can focus on the idea of gesture alone, but since you even added some details to Spiderman, I'd say you wanna make more that a gesture exercise. 2.-The proportions look bad, I'm afraid the only thing I can say about that is that you should be more careful and use light marks on the paper to measure them. 3.- The light and shadow don't have a clear separation. Remember that our job as artist is to transmit a clear to the viewer. Dorian Iten and Steven Zapata have course that are really good to understand light and it's usefulness for the artist. 4.- Your drawings drawings remind me of my own works when I don't understand the subject well enough and don't take in consideration their tridimentionality. When that happens I can't find ways to create a believable representation of them on a 2D surface. Don't forget that art is to some extend a lie and the artist a lier, we must understand the real version well enough so we can change it and make it "sound" believable and/or interesting. Check Antonio Stappaerts' video on Proko's channel to get the idea of tridimentionality. Get the course if you can afford it, if not Moderndayjames has some videos that I've found useful.
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