I guess if we were moving on a "per lesson" basis, today's lesson would be 'foreshortening' (which I've never gotten the hang of). However it was a good exercise and now I identified another aspect that I'm particularly weak in. Likely I'll continue to practice these drawings even outside of class. As they say practice makes "gooder-er" - since perfect is out of the question.
Foreshortening can be pretty tricky. I see that you attempted it with a couple sketches and the top left sketch of the woman turned out the best.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you started to do environments with the figures on a few sketches but I think you should add some more to make the sketch more grounded. Like with the bottom right hand sketch of the man sitting at the table seems a bit strange since you didn't give the chair any legs and the pole underneath the table isn't there.
The foreshortening on the woman on top looks pretty good, but for the rest of them I can't tell too much. Try tapering the edges more and rounding out the edges of the shirts and pants, because they're wrapping around cylinders, which would look rounder when foreshortened.
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ReplyDeleteThese look okay - try to work more detail into the characters and make them slightly larger. Don't always fill up a page with small figures.
Also - these all look too "floaty-" ground these figures with value and defining more of their environment.
The 2-person sketch at the counter (upper right) is probably the best drawing - expand on this.
The man's legs could us a little more foreshortening but it's coming along.
Keep drawing !
Those top 2 show some good perspective. I think I remember your "A-ha!" moment on the lady's shoulders angle. The guy on the upper right's good too-- no cbc (comic book character) syndrome with him either!
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