6:57 PM, Monday February 7th 2022
Thanks!
Thanks!
Ok, 25 revised cylinders here! https://imgur.com/a/j1Nztdl
Ay yi yi, that was a big oversight on my part - thanks for the explanation and I'll get to work!
Thanks! I did run out of ink in my brush pen halfway thru the lesson - instead of taking as a sign to ease up on the brush pen, I bought another brush pen :) Will try to keep it in check going forward! Brushy brushy...
Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to share a crit! I hadn't really thought about how the shadows at the base of the organic forms exercise should be rounded, but what you say makes total sense and I can see how my forms got a bit distorted as a result of the flatter shadows. I did struggle with the legs too - I think I'm just having trouble using the "sausage method" to create legs rather than building from the underlying bone structure - it started to make better sense once I got to the giraffes, but by then I was about 75% of the way through, lol
Thanks for the critique - super helpful and I appreciate it greatly!
Hi there! Love getting to check out other folks work - I can pass on a couple of critiques that I'd received from the DrawABox teachers, and which I can see are relevant to your work as well (solidarity...) - in your initial arrows exercise, I can see that you are doing a good job of keeping the width of your arrows consistent. BUT, with the goal in mind of creating the illusion of perspective, you might experiment with some foreshortening - making your arrows get thinner/smaller as they move back in space. This section from the original Arrows exercise explains it better than I can
Likewise, when you get into your leaves and plants, you're doing something that I also got dinged in my critique - laying down an initial guideline, then deviating from that initial guideline when drawing in the form and detail. You can see an example on your first page of leaves (the second image in your gallery) - you've got a clear guideline for the leaf on the upper left corner of your page, but when you went in to draw the individual lobes of the leaf, they extend beyond that initial guideline. The goal is to be very intentional when laying down that initial guideline, and then commit to it when you're filling in the details (OR, intentionally add forms onto that guideline which extend it, rather than just drawing the new forms over it). This section of the Leaves Exercise covers it well - you want to build off of the original guideline/form, rather than weave in and around it. I was doing the same thing, but when I went back and did it over (after being corrected!), I found that being intentional about the guideline made me concentrate harder on drawing the guideline more exactly, which had the effect of better training my eye and my hand.
Happy drawing!
Awesome - thanks! I've seen my drawing skills improve so much by following your lessons, so thank you for creating this resource, and taking the time to critique!
Ok - thanks for talking me through it. Do these hit closer to the mark?
Thank you!! I really appreciate it. For the texture, I am mostly just following the lessons here, especially the ones about drawing in the shadows. I also am a big fan of John Muir Laws nature journaling videos and tutorials - he has a lot on drawing animals and plants - and Claudia Nice's "Creating Textures with Pen and Ink" book - super helpful and all focused on drawing from nature!
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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