Thanks a lot for the critique! Will keep in mind the shoulder only drawing, line wobbliness and arching as well as the line weight. As for the 2 rows of ellipses, here you go: https://i.imgur.com/FrMkI16.jpg
(let me know if you meant for me to do it a different way)
Those ellipses are great, Good work! I think you're ready to move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge!
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
