Hello! I just finished lesson two, im looking forward to next lessons about plants, insects and animals! looks fun! anyway, i would greatly appreciate if someone was kind enough to critique these for me. thank you.
have a nice day.
I am currently going through lesson 2 and I'm on the texture study, one thing I I'm trying to be conscious of and would suggest to you is to take more time on the lines you're making. Uncomfortable warns about the mistake of scribbling I'm not saying your work looks anything like that image there, I am just seeing how you could slow down while hatching your shadows or filling in your low-light areas on your textured forms. Notice how the darkest scales on that lesson are have dark inky blacks with no white filling in.
Maybe try another texture you already did and slow down, you'll be able to compare your first attempt and the second attempt and notice where you improved!
Best of luck!
you are so right! i am way too impatient, tried to be slower in these lessons but still, anyway, thanks for pointing it out! i will work on improving it and try not to scribble mindlessly.
good luck on your art journey aswell!
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.
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