Torben

Geometric Guerilla

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torben's Sketchbook

  • Sharing the Knowledge
  • Geometric Guerilla
  • Tamer of Beasts
  • The Fearless
  • Giver of Life
  • Dimensional Dominator
  • The Relentless
  • Basics Brawler
    8:50 AM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

    Hey uncomfortable! Thank you for your critique. I think you were right in a way when you said that I was rushing a bit. I think that comes a bit from a feeling of fear. I have days when I´m very calm while drawing but there are other days where I get frustrated. I still have to overcome that I guess. This time I really focused on drawing bigger. I guess it just became a habit for me to draw smaller and of course I take your critique serious and I will work on that. Sometimes I mess up the proportions but I guess that just comes with practice. Very often I see the mistakes that I do afterwards. But In the process of drawing I´m often focused too much on certain aspects and then forget others. Anyway, I´m very grateful for all the work that you put into this platform and I really appreciate that you take the critiques so serious and of course I will try to get learn as much as possible from it.

    Here are the other drawings: https://imgur.com/a/oxFidsL

    6:13 AM, Friday May 22nd 2020

    Thankyou very much for this long critique! I have a question to the last part about my linework. I can actually feel how I´m hesitating when drawing these big organic shapes with their curved lines. I don´t really know if I should draw these lines in one go or if I can split them. For example, when I draw these contour lines which are made of a big closed shape, I don´t really know how to do that because I get nervous about messing them up. I feel like its simply a too long stroke to do in one go. Do you have a tip for me?

    10:06 AM, Sunday May 10th 2020

    Thankyou for your critique. I still struggle sometimes with the lines that I draw through but I can feel that I gained a lot more confidence from that challenge. Here is the link for my other 20 boxes: https://imgur.com/a/58vzRve

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