Lobachevskiy in the post "/r/ArtFundamentals and Drawabox.com: A New Beginning. Read this if you're new to this subreddit."
2016-10-09 20:44
Awesome. Could you also create a new thread for lesson 8 (old one is archived)? I decided to wait until you update it, but I got some questions I want to ask.
Lobachevskiy in the post "/r/ArtFundamentals and Drawabox.com: A New Beginning. Read this if you're new to this subreddit."
2016-10-09 09:34
Subreddit style should allow to switch to newest submissions, otherwise I fear community critique is gonna be hard to come by.
Lobachevskiy in the post "The Future of Free Critiques on /r/ArtFundamentals"
2016-09-26 21:47
Well hey, I guess I made a right choice by upping my pledge to $3 a month ago :D
Honestly you deserve more for what you're doing. As I was reading this, I actually didn't expect all of the efforts to keep free content going - like q&a and sister subreddit. That's a pretty solid solution all around.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-09-18 14:00
Finally done. I think I forgot all the comments I was gonna make.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-09-08 11:11
I'm about halfway through, however I do have one question I wanna ask. Is there a good way to determine proportions of the vehicle for the side sketch? I find that I have a hard time getting it right when reference is at a 3/4 angle, which it more often than not is.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-28 17:12
The chair's back has a certain angle to it, yeah. It's intentional. Also it's the same chair, so the first time it was actually incorrect :)
Thanks for the feedback. I kinda stopped doing basic exercises again, I'll be sure to do some of those every day from now on.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-27 22:25
It was still less good than I'd like it to be, but I suppose I'm getting somewhere. I actually like how camera turned out and the very first soap container also.
I think most of the dirtiness comes from when I try to highlight important lines - I end up messing up the line here and there, and then try to highlight it even more, which adds inaccuracies and ends up a mess. Gotta work on that.
Lobachevskiy in the post "State of the Union - September vacation, and dealing with the overwhelming number of homework submissions"
2016-08-26 12:40
Maybe the better way to look at this is not that people who don't continue are less committed, but the people who do are more. Basically if you have to limit the number of submissions, which is probably the case, you might allow more advanced lessons go unrestricted. Both to reward people who do them and because the number of submissions seems to drop off heavily, so they shouldn't be such a burden.
Also, never forget that simply making these lessons available is incredibly helpful. Doing critiques basically brings you to Jesus tier of awesome, and no matter how you choose to proceed with it, you'll have dozens of people benefiting from your work.
Stay awesome, Tzar!
Lobachevskiy in the post "State of the Union - September vacation, and dealing with the overwhelming number of homework submissions"
2016-08-25 21:57
Judging by the number of comments, the absolute most submissions seems to be coming from first lessons as well as 250 box challenge.
How many people move on to other lessons eventually, versus those that never do? Limiting submissions to the first lessons might filter out folks who aren't going to commit to it.
Lobachevskiy in the post "250 Cylinder Challenge"
2016-08-20 14:01
Well, here it is. Generally speaking I had been drawing through ellipses a little too much, though I made some effort not to closer to the end.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-14 15:37
Definitely not that great, but I've been practicing regularly lately (finally), and included basics which I've been skipping before. While doing this homework I also started working on cylinder challenge, that should be of help also.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-06-15 21:21
Album Forgot to rotate the images! New album
It's been a long long time, too long. I've not been able to stick to a regular schedule of exercising and that stalled my progress quite a bit. Lately I've been doing better in that regard though, and did a page in the last three days.
As for the result, I'm somewhat disappointed even, but perhaps I expected too much. Sometimes I threw away 5 pages trying over and over to get something right (quite often snouts actually), and that's something I want to overcome.
Anyhow, I submit myself to your critique, based Irshad. Thanks for your hard work! You've been a huge help to me and many others.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Since I'm not doing free critiques this month, I dug through the demos I drew for individual students - here are some of those that should help you guys with some of the more common, general challenges"
2016-06-04 07:58
Excellent! I've actually been gathering them in browser tabs (only on the relevant subject thought) and thought of making an album, never got around to it though!
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-05-10 17:20
Thanks a ton for the tips. I could show what I already have, might as well finish it though. I dug up all of your demos from the previous 2 threads, and those were pretty helpful, so is this response. Perhaps a reminder that I should be constructing based on the reference was very important here.
And I should probably give myself time to cool off, which I have done in the past. Anyhow, thanks a lot for the advice and the demos! Hopefully it will be useful for other peeps as well (previous threads definitely were for myself).
Also, I think edit from previous post didn't show up in your inbox, but what's the best way to handle focal points on animals such as leopards? High contrast is all over their bodies due to many spots present on their coat.
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-05-10 16:19
I feel like I need some guidance on this one.
I think mostly right now I'm doing what you call "thinking on the page". Look at the reference, throw approximate lines on the page and see whether it is satisfactory or not. I've tried to combat this, but it's really hard. Should I try to visualize part of the reference on the page and "trace" it? Should I imagine it as a bunch of forms and try to copy those instead? It seems to be really hard for me to actually come up with a good representation for something on paper - especially that concerns texture.
For instance, in your lesson you mention "Looking at my reference closely, I saw that the horse's coat has a fairly simple, smooth sheen to it. Tight hatching seemed to capture that best." Well, how does one go through the process of determining what's best? Is it a matter of practice and experience? Well, I more or less understand how I should try to represent fur, but how do I represent the particular pattern that I see on the reference? I've looked at the wolf demo maybe a dozen times and a couple of marks seem to combine into overall picture, and I just can't seem to achieve that, mostly because I try to draw this "general fur representation", just in a particular direction.
Sorry for frustrated rambling, just discarded a page as not good enough. And I know that texture is secondary - and my forms are generally not bad as far as I see it, but here's the thing, I constantly fail at drawing muzzles, and I think that's because approximation and thinking on the page hurts that area the most. I desperately want to fix that, but trying to place reference on paper in my mind is incredibly hard. So, is there a way to better approach this or should I suffer through it until my observational skills improve with practice?
While I'm at it, on animals such as leopards - with lots of contrast all over their body, what's the best way to create focal points in our case?
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2016-04-07 22:12
10 pages of insects, coming up at last. I gotta say that although I had a big break in the middle, I feel a lot less lazy now. Looking forward to working on animals!
Lobachevskiy in the post "How to Approach Drawing Texture"
2016-02-04 10:26
This is EXACTLY the issues I've been having right now working on third lesson. To the point of desperation. It's great to see that particular part of the lesson more or less sorted. Thank you so much!
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections (version 3)"
2015-12-22 20:17
Yeah, your critique is spot on. I like to think that with a better pen I can do better in drawing the detail... but at the same time I should probably restrain myself from rushing it and give the texture more attention. I will note this when tackling lesson 3 (thankfully it should give me more practice with textures). Thanks for your work!
Lobachevskiy in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections (version 3)"
2015-12-21 21:08
Aaand done! Intentionally left out "shading" in the last image to kinda keep it "pure" I guess. Otherwise all comments were forgotten by me during the lengthy period of me doing this.
I suppose I'll mention that the pen I used didn't actually allow for much control over line weights, which gave me quite a bit of trouble. Currently waiting for a new one.
Lobachevskiy in the post "/r/ArtFundamentals and Drawabox.com: A New Beginning. Read this if you're new to this subreddit."
2016-11-07 21:11
So hey, any ETA on figure drawing lessons revision?
Still looking forward to doing those!