ambrdst in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-01-11 02:59
I think seeing that overdrawing helped a lot, thanks! I tried to focus more on closing the shapes in my lay-ins. My lines are still a bit shaky, but I'm definitely understanding what's going on better. For the drawings, I tried to do different levels of detail without getting carried away. It was tough - I don't know why I have this urge to fill everything in.
http://imgur.com/a/AL3o9 (same album, last 3 images are the new ones)
ambrdst in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-01-08 17:21
Ok, I'm planning to do a couple more of the plant drawings, but I wanted to get a little feedback first because I'm not sure I'm doing this correctly. I'm having some trouble detailing only one specific area, partially because I don't know what area to choose. I saw the tips about drawing a circle around it but I still get distracted and put detail everywhere because it just looks "wrong" otherwise.
I'm also including one more page of the form intersections from lesson 2 since you mentioned last time I should be drawing through the shapes more. Is this closer to what I was supposed to be doing?
As always, thank you!
ambrdst in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2015-01-07 03:42
Now that I've done a couple of the lessons I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm 25, and have been drawing for as long as I can remember, if little kid drawings count. Back then, I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. I got more serious about it in college because I worked for the uni theatre and had to do costume renderings. I got paid to do art for the first time last year (not that I would actually consider myself a professional, not at all).
Not counting elementary and high school classes, I took a couple art classes in college. The most relevant one was Visual Design in 2D, which was more focused on color/form/collage than drawing.
I like doing this as a hobby, but since I've always dreamed of being an "artist" I want to get good enough to make some money here and there on commissions or whatnot.
I'm one of those unfortunate people that got into drawing anime style. I tend towards a sort of cartoony/semi-realistic mishmash, that I fully accept as horrible a lot of the time. Feel free to look around my facebook page for a nice range of bad to ok, but here are some of my favorites from the past year:
sometimes I draw in the dark to force myself to not get caught up on details
the game that I worked on, which got me back into art last year
I only really have recent examples unfortunately, so there's not much to compare. I found this sub from the side-column on another one of the art subs, though I'm not sure which. I'm here because I want to not be disappointed in my work as much as I usually am.
I'm looking forward to all the lessons. I've said it before, but thanks /u/Uncomfortable for organizing this!
ambrdst in the post "LESSON 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2015-01-04 21:36
Ah I didn't realize we were supposed to be realistic with the dissections in any way. I must have misunderstood.
I'll practice the intersections a bit more. I felt like I was getting more hesitant and shaky drawing through them because the number of lines going on completely disoriented me, but maybe that won't be as big an issue now that I understand how they interact a bit better.
As always, thank you for your great feedback!
ambrdst in the post "LESSON 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2015-01-04 20:36
I finally got some new pens and feel way less frustrated now that I'm not smudging ink all over the place. Here's my homework for this lesson: http://imgur.com/a/OKCFt
Things I noticed: On the organic forms, I have trouble predicting where my contour lines should stop and end up with a little flick at the end of them. I really enjoyed the dissections (as most other people here it seems). The shape intersections gave me the most trouble. The first full page set I did, I broke down and used a pencil after some false starts (not pictured) to figure out how stuff worked. The next two I did just in pen without reference and found my lines to be really shaky. For the last one, I played with some 3D models in Blender to get a better idea of what was going on and try to make my lines more confident.
I should mention I'm left handed, so on each page, my first forms are on the right and I finish off on the left.
I'm looking forward to your feedback, thanks so much!
ambrdst in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Boxes"
2014-12-26 07:04
Thanks! (wow you respond fast)
I definitely see your point about the lines. I should have picked up another color for immediate corrections, but my reflex was to just try the wrong line again. I also struggled a lot with not being able to trace the same line to darken it on purpose, so sometimes the "mistake" lines were actually a second or third pass trying to add weight that veered off. It looks like that's something the first lesson might help me with. I'll definitely be working on those in the near future : )
ambrdst in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Boxes"
2014-12-26 06:40
I'm new to this sub and this is awesome. Thanks for doing it! Here are my boxes. I tended to correct with the same pen as I was drawing and I noticed I was switching the big/small side in perspective a lot. I feel like I actually got worse as I went along, but maybe that's because I was trying more difficult angles.
ambrdst in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Cylinders"
2015-01-21 15:28
Since I was having trouble with shaky shapes in the couple lessons I did, I tried to do these cylinders before moving on. Here they are: http://imgur.com/a/AqURB
It took me way too long to figure out what the "Cylinder Basics" image was trying to explain, so these got pretty nonsensical at times. My corrections are in pencil. The ones with question marks are ones I didn't know how to fix. They look flattened/squished instead of like round cylinders, and I'm not sure why.
Thanks!