Feb '22

Hello, its me again! I just wanted to post some progress from this week. I moved into term 2 and had such a hard time warping shapes! But I keep practicing.

Blending Practice

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Sphere practice, I wasn't happy with most of these and will keep practicing. In retrospect most of these arn't spheres lol.

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The main thing I worked this week was warping. Oh I found this so very difficult. Here is some of my practice.

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After many tears and sweat here are my submissions for the week. I attempted to shade the bottom one but am not really sure what I am doing yet lol!

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Thanks for reading! Any feedback is always appreciated. :blush:

Feb '22

Hello Locke,

i just saw your posts and these are great studies! Im looking forward to see future results :smile:

Feb '22

Hi, that's a nice amount of work, I like your figures :smile:

The heads also are looking nice and mostly well constructed
I have some feedback for the heads, but take it with a grain of salt since I haven't reached that part of the program or studied heads in a while.
First I'm just curious why some of them are upside down ? the model was hanging or something ? x) or is it to have a new look on them ?
Then the front facing head on the last page, you drew an ellipse for the center line when it should have been a line if it is full front and symetric. Also the same one, don't forget to erase the side of the base circle at the temples
If the head is tilted up or down, the ellipses of the hair line and nose should be tilted accordingly (especially in the last page). The proportions end up skewed.
On the first two pages the center line is sometimes not in the center for the 3/4 views
And finally I feel the vertical part of the jaw is a bit too short and too vertical, it should be slightly towards the front

For the construction practice, for the cylinders you can curve the wrapping lines more at the edges to improve the 3D feel, like you did for the spheres.

Hope that helps, it's a lot of text but not big problems to correct, you're on the right track! :+1:

Feb '22

Thank you very much for the feedback! I have had quite some difficulty learning the head construction. Thank you for pointing out these issues. Truthfully I am not sure why a few of the heads are upside down lol, I probably had the canvas rotated and didn't think about it.

Thank you for pointing out that the front facing center line should be just a line and not an ellipse that makes sense! Cutting off the sides definitely makes sense now!

Thank you for letting me know about the hair line and nose ellipses when tilted. I thought I was curving them but now I realize I was not curving them enough. This will help me considerably as I continued to have the same issue this week.

Thanks you for pointing out that the center line is not quite right on the 3/4 views. I think I have a better understanding of that aspect now. What do you think about the last page? Do you think those center lines are more accurate?

For the cylinders and construction practice thanks so much for the advice! I will curve them more to convey that information better. I have been trying to get a good handle on this as I want to draw a giant serpent in my 3pt perspective assignment.

I appreciate the time you took to let me know the issues with my work and thank you so much!

Feb '22

Man your stuff is awesome. Your pieces are overflowing with creativity and you are making huge improvements within a short amount of time.

Only a small piece of advice. Draw your constructions freehanded more often. It will look worse for now but it will help your linequality in the long run.

Feb '22

Thank you so much for the kind words and the advice! I appreciate it! I will definitely start doing more of the free hand. Regarding the free hand, are you referring to the construction on the circles using the guides? Thanks so much for your help!

Feb '22

Yeah, that's what i ment. Also,I thought your shapes exercise and your cylinders for the figures looked like line / ellipse tools being used, they are exceptionally smooth. Upon closer inspection I see that this likely not the case.

Is this completely freehand or do you use line smoothing? That's incredibly impressive linework for freehand.

Feb '22

Thanks! I don't use any line smoothing. I'm just crazy. I had watched Marcs videos for quite a bit before starting the program and the one thing that kept coming back for advice was line quality and not to use smoothing to increase dexterity. So when I got my tablet I spent 2-3 hours each day for the first month just working on my lines and am quite meticulous when working on most practice. I am getting better but I do use control Z a lot! I did use the line tool on the perspective assignments for the fish room and cat room and for the center lines on the head construction. I will have to work on doing those freehand but I'm not quite that confident yet!

Feb '22

For the perspective assignements I'd say it's quite alright to use the line tool. As long as you are doing the majority of your more organic stuff freehanded you'll be fine. especially because your line work is very good already. Good job!

Feb '22

This is my work for the week! I worked just as hard even though I don't have quite as much content. Many hours were spent watching the head construction video lol. This was my first time drawing with values! I worked very hard on them. Criticism always welcome! I have not quite weened myself from using circles to help me draw the base yet, I will focus on that once I feel I have the construction down.

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Feb '22

Hi Locke!

you really do great work! i admire your hard work and it kinda inspires me to do more !
Keep it up, your results are impressive :smile:

Feb '22

Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words! I spend a lot of time practicing and studying!

Feb '22

Wow! I am so impressed with your perspective drawings. Perspective is something I struggle with immensely. But yours all look so good! Keep up the amazing work! I also love the D&D map!

Feb '22

Thank you so much! Prospective is intimidating to learn, but once you understand the basics and practice / play with it a lot of it starts clicking. I spent many, many hours on the perspective assignments lol. The alchemy shop had to take me over 50 hours but I learned a ton lol.

Feb '22


Your construction of head is good, I made some notes with red. Most of things I did are just changing values. With time you will see values better. Keep in mind I am not perfect either :D. I didn't do much on eyebrows and forehead because I can't see them and I am not that confident in anatomy. If you have question ask me.

Feb '22
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Oh my gosh Nikolinkanikolova thank you so much!!! This is super helpful. I really appreciate that you took the time to help me with this. I will have to pay attention to the unseen ear and take that part of the forehead off. Thank you for pointing out the eyes, neck, chin, ear and lips and everything! This is very helpful to see how you handle these features! I am going to study this in great detail. Thank you so much! :heart_eyes:

Feb '22

Quick update, I decided to redo the VP's for my 3 point perspective drawing and put in the dragon / snake today! I have been hard at work attempting to get these darn contours down on warped cylinders and I think I am getting close. Please let me know if anyone spots any errors with the cylinder contours. :heart_eyes: Thanks!