Learning How to Draw, A Journal by warpy

#41

Nice progress Warpy, I recently started to learn to draw too (about 2 weeks now), and am enjoying it. Keep up the hard work, I’m just off to do another drawing :slight_smile:

#42

hey man its omer from the drawing course,

checked out your website cool stuff… maybe we open up the first game company here :slight_smile:

see u friday…

#43

Updatey!

:d

#44

yeah i know its been a while, i actually had lots of projecs for school plus i did this orc for the blizzard contest, check my signature for the link:P

the last couple of lessons were fairly hard to understand. it started with a gesture of the monkey, teddy, doll. then i had to use the modeling technique on it (farther == darker, closer = whiter, imagin a spotlight from the front on your object!, or in a 3d app its your normal viewport lighting)
while taking into account the light and shadow on them.
so still the modeling rules apply but sometimes if you see some more shadows, where in the traditional modeling it should be white (its closer to you, but its shadowed), you had to take that into account and draw that shadow.

after that i had to put an extra paper on the drawing and draw the outline on a glass window, this simulates the light table we all know and gives us better tracing results of the outline.

in the teddy drawing, the first is the light/shadow modeling (using B pencil), the second is the outlined teddy with a blocking method of modelling on primitive geometric shapes (using an HB pencil). i have to say that the second teddy is not properly done using those primitives, i should have used the actual shape of the teddy and where there were hard transitions i would draw different colors on those shapes (exactly like in a cube) and when i get softer transitions, like the palm, i would paint it like i would have a sphere. as you can see i didnt, i just had fun making him look like something else :stuck_out_tongue:

in the doll drawing, the first is the light/shadow modeling (using B pencil), the second is the outlined doll on the new page using an HB pencil, we use the HB pencil to create very mild light and shadow (using modeling) i still havent mastered this, so its kind of hard to explain, but after this stage where you add very faint volume mass, l&s, i will need to create the details, it wouldnt be by painting it hard with the tip of the pencil, i would still draw it with the soft graphite tone using the HB pencil.

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#45

updated the pictures to a more high res version. it looks nicely now.

#46

good, good! nice try on texture! make sure you think about every line you draw. Don´t just hatch, think about direction and form. I can already see progress. Draw draw draw.
Keep it up, looking forward to this thread!

-Cya

#47

awesome ! 10morecharacters

#48

Heya warpy,

You’re really improving! :slight_smile: My main suggestion would be to more consistently shade in the direction of the object’s surface topology. Try not to scribble as you shade ~ stroke in one direction consistently, and really consider how you cross hatch. As you increasingly shade your drawing, the cross hatching will start to blend together a bit more naturally.

Looking forward to reading your thoughts and seeing more of your work. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#49

quick drawing, 1.5 hours, homework for today’s class. based on my mom’s statue.

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todays doll in class, i dont like this one.

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#50

ooops will replace this soon.

#51

Man! It looks totally 3D…!

:smiley:

#52

You have a great thread, it’s very interesting! You can really see the improvement in every new drawing you make.

#53

@mariana, thanks :slight_smile: your words are much appreciated :slight_smile:
@mu, i changed the pictures heh :slight_smile:
@omer, i dont realy want to make a game company lol.

#54

warpy,

Wow, a big leap forward! :thumbsup: Great stuff, it’s really nice to see your improvement. The sense of volume in the statue is really quite impressive.

Keep at it! BTW, sorry I missed your chat! I often forget to set my status to “Away”…

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#55

hey rebecca, thanks for the “wow” heh, it means a lot.
i will catch you on IM sooner or later :slight_smile:

#56

happy !! i did this last night and even in the pictures it looks good, took 4 pictures, 2 are at the before stage using my phone camera, quality sux so thats why i posted 2 of the “before”.

there are 2 more of the after, taken during day time. i realy like the result, but i am still
asking for non obvious crits.

*i also changed the legs because i didnt like it how the statue had it. this proved to be annoying.
*i just noticed that the drawing are a bit tilted and the shoulders dont allign like in the statue, so use your imagination for that :stuck_out_tongue:
*the lighting was a lamp light coming directly ontop of the statue and it was night outside.
*the picture of the statue was taken this morning, while the drawing was in the night, please dont compare the lighting situation!

step 2 :

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step 1 :

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#57

man i think the drawing is very well , i like the freedom and style of the strokes, it adds a really artistic feeling…so i dont have bad crits…:slight_smile:

#58

@mu, i changed the pictures heh :slight_smile:

yea, Ori, but you know what? I needn’t change my post, coz it’s still true!

Big improvement!

:thumbsup:

#59

warpy,

Wow, another great leap forward! :slight_smile:

The head and upper torso are looking great. I would say that the legs are are too small / short proportionally ~ take a look and reevaluate the relative proportions of things, and note where the mistakes are. You might even take some tracing paper and place that over your image to redraw the legs. Doing so helps to reinforce the correct proportions and gives you that extra confidence for your next drawing. As well, it helps one not to see each drawing as ‘precious’, but as only a link in a chain, or rather, as a body of work in progress. :slight_smile:

Looking forward to more updates!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#60

Hi…Warpy …:thumbsup:
GREAT PROGRESS…Really like the sculpture you created, and the way you used spotlights in
the dark, to study the shadows, and the effects of lighting on it…GREAT and PROVEN way to learn for future works in drawing and painting,…of that figure and others to come…:applause: :thumbsup:
You might try using some of that new non drying clay, or some of that even newer stuff, that
anamators use…can’t remember the name of it right now…might be Plastazene…ask Thomasphoenix // Siju…he knows the name of it…You can creat small figures with it …use as light studies ect., for your
drawings…the advantage of the non drying stuff, is you can use it over and over again, plus
not drying, it allows you plenty of time to make changes and corections to the figure you are creating…REALLY like the method of sculptue to drawing you are using…can also work the other way around…Like I said…GREAT and PROVEN method to LEARN…:thumbsup:
Really looking forward to seeing more GREAT PROGRESS from you…:slight_smile:
TAKE CARE
Glenn