Drawing for fun. This is my first proper drawing the colour pic is for reference and not my work, credit to that artist, mine is just the crappy sketch one haha
It's always great to see people putting time towards the 50% rule, and drawing for the sake of drawing. I do have two things to point out however:
In general, posts on this subreddit do have to be limited to the course/exercise work. Otherwise it's just too easy to end up with people posting their own drawings (it'd be hard to differentiate between those doing so as part of Drawabox's 50% rule, and those just looking to share their work), and those submitting homework for critique would get flooded out.
I noticed that you were working completely from the same piece of reference. Using reference is perfectly fine, but when doing your work for the 50% rule, what we're really doing is leaving ourselves open and vulnerable to producing shitty drawings. The 50% rule's purpose isn't to have fun each time, but rather to learn to worry less about how the end result will turn out, and to develop a love for the process instead. When we try to reproduce an existing piece directly, exactly as it is, we're really just doing a "study" (which itself is an exercise, therefore falling into the same 50% as Drawabox and any other course's work). While you are welcome to use reference while doing your 50% rule stuff, it's important that you are making the big choices of what goes where, and what it is you're actually trying to draw. Reference should be used to fill in the areas you're unfamiliar with, once you've already decided what goes where. So for example, you might decide to draw a wizard, but might need one piece of reference for their costume, another for their pose, and another for their staff. This way you're still making your overall choices, but you're combining them to produce your own work.
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2021-11-19 15:56
It's always great to see people putting time towards the 50% rule, and drawing for the sake of drawing. I do have two things to point out however:
In general, posts on this subreddit do have to be limited to the course/exercise work. Otherwise it's just too easy to end up with people posting their own drawings (it'd be hard to differentiate between those doing so as part of Drawabox's 50% rule, and those just looking to share their work), and those submitting homework for critique would get flooded out.
I noticed that you were working completely from the same piece of reference. Using reference is perfectly fine, but when doing your work for the 50% rule, what we're really doing is leaving ourselves open and vulnerable to producing shitty drawings. The 50% rule's purpose isn't to have fun each time, but rather to learn to worry less about how the end result will turn out, and to develop a love for the process instead. When we try to reproduce an existing piece directly, exactly as it is, we're really just doing a "study" (which itself is an exercise, therefore falling into the same 50% as Drawabox and any other course's work). While you are welcome to use reference while doing your 50% rule stuff, it's important that you are making the big choices of what goes where, and what it is you're actually trying to draw. Reference should be used to fill in the areas you're unfamiliar with, once you've already decided what goes where. So for example, you might decide to draw a wizard, but might need one piece of reference for their costume, another for their pose, and another for their staff. This way you're still making your overall choices, but you're combining them to produce your own work.