wasker
02-24-2007, 10:30 PM
Hi there,
I started pencil drawing rather recently and I've been doing a lot of studies lately. However, when drawing without a reference I struggle with creating clean lines. I always got a pretty clear idea of what I'm aiming at with the picture but when I try to draw it I do these small sketchy lines all the time and it bugs the hell out of me. They completely ruin the picture and after a few erases the paper I'm working on is pretty much wasted as well. My current pencil goal is a sort of exaggerated anatomy. I also got a problem of implementing the anatomy knowledge I'm supposed to get from the studies I do. Without references I constantly get it all wrong even if the mental image is correct. My characters also end up unnaturally stiff and in poses that suggest they are dolls or suffer from rigor mortis :/
Can someone perhaps give me some pointers on how to start drawing without references, how to develop my pencil confidence and get cleaner lines? I don't expect an answer that will magically turn me into a fully developed artist (we never do develop fully either for that matter), but perhaps something along the way of what I should study and more importantely HOW I should implement this knowledge.
I got a picture as well to show an artist who got a really crisp style and obviously knowledge of anatomy. It might be inked but I'd like to believe that this picture didn't originally start as a nest of lines as my pictures tend to. I'm speaking of the picture now, not the model. :p
http://www.rackham-store.com/boutique_us/images_produits/FRDVRG02_1.jpg
I started pencil drawing rather recently and I've been doing a lot of studies lately. However, when drawing without a reference I struggle with creating clean lines. I always got a pretty clear idea of what I'm aiming at with the picture but when I try to draw it I do these small sketchy lines all the time and it bugs the hell out of me. They completely ruin the picture and after a few erases the paper I'm working on is pretty much wasted as well. My current pencil goal is a sort of exaggerated anatomy. I also got a problem of implementing the anatomy knowledge I'm supposed to get from the studies I do. Without references I constantly get it all wrong even if the mental image is correct. My characters also end up unnaturally stiff and in poses that suggest they are dolls or suffer from rigor mortis :/
Can someone perhaps give me some pointers on how to start drawing without references, how to develop my pencil confidence and get cleaner lines? I don't expect an answer that will magically turn me into a fully developed artist (we never do develop fully either for that matter), but perhaps something along the way of what I should study and more importantely HOW I should implement this knowledge.
I got a picture as well to show an artist who got a really crisp style and obviously knowledge of anatomy. It might be inked but I'd like to believe that this picture didn't originally start as a nest of lines as my pictures tend to. I'm speaking of the picture now, not the model. :p
http://www.rackham-store.com/boutique_us/images_produits/FRDVRG02_1.jpg