Hello everyone. I am quite busy drawing/painting these days, so I need to find some time to post. I assume this is a good problem to have

Anyway, one of my friends lent me his screen tablet Huion Kamvas 16. As I said, I am really not comfortable figure drawing with my Intuos (because no screen and shitty eye/coordination), so I was really eager to try the screen tablet. As expected, things are much smoother. However, this made me realize that using a pen tablet is much closer to painting than drawing. I like SOME of my figure drawings with pen and paper, but never managed to get a satsfying result with a pen tablet. I realized this is beacause I try to draw the way I would with a pen. After a lot of die and retry, I now understand that I need to set up my brush if I want to do that.

What are YOUR settings when you do figure drawing ? Here is what I got with a 5 pixels brush and sensitivity ON for everything. I might remove opacity sensitivity in the near future.

First two are 30 second poses. I find 2 of them are pretty sharp (will we agree on that ? ). It makes me realize that sharp angles for clear defined shapes really give a nice feel.

3 and 4 of 1mn gesture. They are more accurate and complete, but lack the expressiveness of the sharp 30s ones.

Last two are 5 minutes. I added the reference for "beautiful slender model" as it made me realize that when polishing, the devil is in the details. I placed everything by eye and did not check features all together. In the end, everything is too far apart, or too short, or too something. I guess this is why I find men much easier to draw, so many muscles and landmarks to place that you can't have HUGE fails.

Tell me what you think. Any constructive criticism is welcome.

No post in a while, but I have been quite busy with the classes and assignments. I am currently doing the 30 days challenge Marc posted on YouTube. Do you have any advice on how to set Photoshop when drawing free hand ? I tend to get much better results when drawing in my sketchbooks and feel like I'm doing something wrong. I fiddle with all the settings I could find, and I am still miles away from what I want. I tried to mimic Marc and use his legendary lineart brush but as you can see my lines are pixelated. Something feels wrong. Any advice is welcome.

Some more figure drawing I am pretty happy with. I have been doing the Fresh Eyes Challenge from Love Life Drawing channel on YouTube. It really helped me "see better". I realize I should stop trying to be as realistic as possible with quick figure drawings and try to add more stylistic spin.

Here are some 10 mn poses I am pretty happy with. I will try to upload more stuff to document my progress.

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I always do the ribcage first now. It is much easier to make the head right when it is there xD

One point perspective exercise. I tried adding more details to make it more interesting, but ran out of idea at some point

The actual drawing looks better. Any advice on how to take pictures of large drawings?

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Some figure drawings I am fairly happy with. I think landmarks are accurate and linework is good considering I spent about 15 minutes on each piece. Seeing it on a screen makes me realize I should maybe work more on contraste and final details (who said hands??)

I tried many times doing this kind of exercicises on my tablet (Kamvas 16), but I struggle A LOT with the linework. I keep wondering if there is some kind of offset between the pen and the tablet. I can't reproduce the line I make with a pencil, it is quite frustrating. Any advice on that would be more than welcome.

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