thegildedgrackle in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals (Patreon Critique Thread)"
2019-06-07 16:45
Hello!
I have made my way through Lesson 5! Here is my submission: https://imgur.com/gallery/LDXniI4 I had a lot of fun with this lesson but I also started to get a lot more nervous about my drawings. I found that doing quick thumbnail drawings as part of my warm up helped but if you have any advice on how to be less nervous that would be greatly appreciated!
I tried to be better about ghosting which helped with individual shapes but I had a hard time placing the new shape in the right spot (specifically head to torso really tripped me up). Also whenever I was ghosting I found it hard to know how large something was actually going to be. Is there any exercises I could add to my warmup that you think would help? I was thinking about maybe trying to draw circles of different sizes next to each other or something similar just to try to train my brain.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
thegildedgrackle in the post "Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids (Patreon Critique Thread)"
2019-04-30 21:54
Well I never fully understood how terrifying insects were until this homework... So thanks for that.
Here is my album for the submission: https://imgur.com/a/865ny3i !
Overall I think that going back and redoing some of three really helped. I started to be able to really visualize the shapes I was drawing and how they interact in a way that I don't think I could before. Hopefully, they are coming through clearer than they were last lesson.
Notes on previous feedback/thoughts:
- I continued to try to work on drawing larger - I had a hard time spacing it out in some cases.
- I struggle with shadows, I should probably go stare at some shadows but yeah for some reason those were confounding.
- I noticed that I sometimes let my line quality suffer. Specifically, I would put down the big forms but then i would try to layer something on top get nervous and cause my lines to go everywhere. I don't know if the solution to that is more ghosting or just commit but i noticed it was an issue.
- I overall tried not to do detailed texture aside from the demos I'd rather worry about the forms before I worry about the textures.
- There were a couple of times I caught myself where I wasn't respecting the underlying forms I tried to pay attention to that though and use additive construction you talked about a lot last lesson.
A couple of questions:
Fixing mistakes - How do you know when you can fix a mistake vs move forward and accept the mistake vs know you should start again? I really appreciated the Scorpion demo cause you talked about this a little there.
Proportion - Are there any good exercises I could add to my warm ups to work on proportion? I noticed in a couple of the studies the overall structure was ok but i messed up the proportions so for instance all the legs would be too small.
Thank you as always for reviewing and commenting! Your comments are invaluable.
thegildedgrackle in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals (Patreon Critique Thread)"
2019-06-20 01:29
Hello again! Thanks for the feedback!
I did notice while doing the lesson that at the beginning of the lesson I had a harder time grasping how the forms wrapped than by the end. Looking back on those first drawing you mentioned I can clearly see where I added lines with no indication of the larger mass like the horse head jaw.
Quick question on cutting in. I totally see what you are saying about how cutting in on the horse muzzle top side made the picture feel more flat. But how is that different than what you do when you tuck in the stomach of the Tiger on the first video of the lesson? Is it specifically the way I cut in that makes mine read flat? Also looking back on this I know you gave me very similar feedback on lesson 3 with the plants so if it about understanding mass and me still being in the adding stage that would make sense to me.
I tried to address my leg issues by simplifying all of the legs down to their ball and socket to really enforce the sausage technique. I did feel like this made some of the legs feel disembodied from the rest of the animal though. Would the way to fix that be to provide more layers of muscle similar to how you do it in Oryx Construction Demo?
On a similar vein are there other cases where I'm oversimplifying my animals?
Here is my new album:
https://imgur.com/a/2A7kshH
Thanks again for taking the time to review everything!