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Flay's sketchbook [08/01/08]
Flay
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but if you already do all of this just pretend I never existed, okay?
I, however, have been dissappointed in the past and now by the amount of drawings straight out of the Loomis books.
Don't get me wrong, they are an excellent resource. Being one of the lucky few to actually have a Loomis book, I've found flipping through it and internalizing a tidbit here or there to be more than useful. Actually copying page by page seems excessive.
We've seen your mannequins, your skeletions, your animal drawings, all well done really. Like I said, your creatures and characters were cool too. But until you start drawing from life and taking more risks with mark making, I can't imagine your work is going to be very interesting.
Again, though, great dedication.
You need to start trying to apply what your learning. Do a sheet of ref'd figures, then try a sheet of observed figs or figures from your head.
Alternating that way seems to be good practice, least for me 't is.
Damn, I really wish I were old enough to attend popper figure drawing classes. I'd start going to the regular kind, but the only available place runs them on a Monday, which I can't do...
There are a few more diagrams I plan to copy from Loomis, though, 'cause I want to be able to refer to them when I'm out and about instead of only being able to look at them in PDF form.
Hopefully things are the same in the southern hemisphere.
Trying to loosen up my wrist and do something a little different for once. I did a couple of pages of these, but I'll just use this as an example.
EDIT: Here's something I did for a classroom on conceptart.org, but was interrupted and didn't get to finish.
Oh yeah, and here's a christmas card I made at the last minute. It's crap, but I'll scan it anyways.
The mannequin has gone from useful to tool to bad habit.
DRAW PEOPLE.
Seriously, just take some time to yourself to fuck up for a while.
" Ima draw a face"
Moments later:
"Dang, that face is jacked up"
Such is learning.
Competent drawings of uninteresting building blocks are over rated.
Although, I supposed it's a little fucked up to be railing on someone for doing something decently...
Well, if there's something you'd like more specific crits on, let it be known.
You're selling yourself short. You're 16 for Christ's sake. You're stuff is great. Even if you weren't 16, it would be good ; just not something that looks like it took very long (and I don't think it did for you anyway).
The Flame Girl you showed looked nice. If you are interested in anime type style. Have you tried to mimic some manga books or anime series? This is an alternative to if you can't get into some figure drawing classes just yet.
But you might be able to develop a cool cartooning style by the time you are 17 or 18. Which is great...
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I haven't been around the forums enough to tell what your or Flay's interests are. But it would really depend on what kind of artistic skills you have. If you're the type of person who can look at an image and basically copy it with no sweat. It might be worth it (and it might not take that long; since anime is relatively simple).
The usefulness depends entirely on what area of work you want to go into though. Unfortunately we don't live in Japan so these skills would be all but moot. If you are into cartooning ,though, or comic-making then you may see techniques that you can integrate into your own style.
If you want to work in the game industry (purely) though, it might be next to useless. As over the years we have edged more and more towards realism (even the Japanese market).
bwahaha. I mean anime is fine and dandy, but copying it isn't really the way to go.
That being said, maybe it is time to look at some artists out side of those who can teach you anatomy. Start setting some goals for yourself, rather than just putting around in anatomy. Start playing with concepts and design.
Well to be fair I did say integrate aspects that worked into your own style.
Anyways, thanks for the comments guys, this really encourages me to try and improve.
Neck seems wrong though.
Toss the mannequins.
PS stop being so hard on yourself
Also, you're doing great, I wish I had been determined as you
Eheh... I kind of cheated with those...
http://what-i-do-is-secret.deviantart.com/art/Reference-Men-s-clothing-68186011
I posted this in the doodle thread, but I may as well post it here too.
Keep up the practice and you'll be super awesome. Definitely work on tone- your line art is great, but some tone would really make it come alive. Your clothed figures need some work as well. I'd recommend going to a mall or some other public place and doing quick gestural sketches until your hands bleed. It's a great way to start getting familiar with the basic shapes that clothes make in various poses.