Logan Sittaro
added comment inFigure Drawing Critiques – Structure Basics
2yr
Should I move on to landmarks and mannequinization now? Or should I work on landmarks more?
Rav P
2yr
Hey Logan, If you still want some help with this part. My biggest recommendation for you is that you need more shapes. Right now it looks more so as if you are drawing the outline of the animals rather than breaking them down. I completely understand wanting to fit parts of the body together, especially like the torso into a bean shape but the bean is not the goal of this lesson.
The main focus is to stare at the animal for a minute then try to fit shapes over the top of the image. A big tip is print out the image, get a red marker and draw over it. See how you would turn each section into smaller shapes. After you draw on the image directly you will get a better idea of what is different between the image and your drawings on your book.
I have also added a photo that will hopefully help you see how you should imagine the animal in shapes. Just think of it as more of a puzzle than an animal.
TLDR - Break the image down into more shapes
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Hi, feel free to take this with a grain of salt because I am no expert.
The only thing that I can say is that the lighting on her face is different to her body. Currently it seems like you have two light sources, one that directly hits her face and one that only hits the front of your body.
I understand wanting to light up the face to make it catch the eye since it is the focal point but going off the lighting on her body, the left side of her face would be more in shadow in the same way as the back of her body is.
The other thing you can do is light the shoulder nearest to us in light and the shoulder further away in shadow. That way the lighting would be facing her directly and it will keep her face brightly lit up while portraying correct lighting on the side of the body facing the viewer and shadows on the side of the body that is away from the viewer.
Regardless, this was more of a nitpick more than anything cause I wanted to help. Your artwork in itself is both beautiful and amazing. I have a lot of respect for your skills. <3
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