Hey guys, I promised myself I'd draw every day. And you get to keep me accountable!
Today's drawing (1 hour, from photo reference)
Process in spoiler
So I need to be more particular about proportion, clearly. Also, I need to learn to make my forms more 3 dimensional. I'd also like to make my lines more confident in general. Give me advice plz?
Each one of those is a layer, 7 if I remember correctly. I didn't really use them for much other than being checkpoints to possibly go back to, though.
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edited May 2009
It's not to bad for early stuff, I wouldn't get too hung up on trying to do everything in photoshop. You'll learn much faster using a pencil and sketchpad, mainly because it's super portable and you can draw anywhere.
Confident lines are a result of lots of practice, so the more you do the better you will get. Try the head studies found in the loomis books (downloadable from the front page on the Q&A thread). They'll start you thinking more about construction, which is good area for understanding 3-dimensional forms.
Each one of those is a layer, 7 if I remember correctly.
I see absolutely no reason for having 7 different layers for this, two (one for the figure and one for the background) would be sufficent and will stop you interuppting your workflow to switch layers.
you suffer from the same problem i used to (and still do ) where you don't establish the underlying structure correctly. Though based on this, its obvious you're just really starting to draw (seriously anyway), i think that really forcing yourself too consider the structure will help so much. The process you posted doesnt really show any refining to that structure, and as a result, though your rendering skills arent too bad, the overall picture looks wrong. i think if you consider that more, even if your image is still wrong, it will look much better just for the fact that there has been some consideration.
Try the Loomis boooks. They are really intense, but work well. And when you get too fed up with those i think you should try some Burne Hogarth books. They are the same principles, but i find them easier to follow. Google the name and you should find some PDF downloads of his books.
*hope this makes sense. Im running off 3 hours sleep last night.
BTW i do like the picture. I laughed at it. It seems to come across as the dumb kind of hero, that everyone thinks is some legendary warrior.
your starting on photoshop to soon, its a very veryyy unhealthy habit that I see done a lot. Basically if you understand shadow in a normal pencil/charcoal drawing, you'll understand a normal drawing in photoshop. It's kind of like trying to learn to draw from painting... Painting is not only more expensive but it takes longer to make one thing. Photoshop may be able to GO relatively fast if you just use line, but at the same time its so easy to erase and manipulate and such that it doesn't really teach you the thinking skills you gain from just drawing first on normal paper.
I posted this before, maybe it will help you get started. However I agree with what has been previously stated, anatomy studies would help you drastically.
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How many photoshop layers are you using here?
Confident lines are a result of lots of practice, so the more you do the better you will get. Try the head studies found in the loomis books (downloadable from the front page on the Q&A thread). They'll start you thinking more about construction, which is good area for understanding 3-dimensional forms.
I see absolutely no reason for having 7 different layers for this, two (one for the figure and one for the background) would be sufficent and will stop you interuppting your workflow to switch layers.
Yes.
Try the Loomis boooks. They are really intense, but work well. And when you get too fed up with those i think you should try some Burne Hogarth books. They are the same principles, but i find them easier to follow. Google the name and you should find some PDF downloads of his books.
*hope this makes sense. Im running off 3 hours sleep last night.
BTW i do like the picture. I laughed at it. It seems to come across as the dumb kind of hero, that everyone thinks is some legendary warrior.
Linked (Due to the size)
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/gr4phic4rt/Barbariantutorial2.jpg