Shopping girl

#1

well just a little practice, the drawing is practically done but i know it can be improved a lot, so maybe you can point things i haven seen yet?

#2

Hi! The first thing is about body proportion, for example, the arms are too small, try to imagine it beside the torso. There aren’t move on the pelvis, when we walk jump or any action that include de torso also include the pelvis too. The right side of the pelvis need to be upper than the left because the right leg are extended and is holding the weight of the body.

The second thing is about the fabrics, try to figure what kind of tissue it was made. each tissue interacts differently than other. In your painting the skirt and the jacket seems to be the same kind of tissue, but the plastic bag is more transparent than the skirt. Keep in your mind the main stress points that make folds and think what kind of folds they are, smoothed or hard folds. I hope that it helps!

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#3

Ok i get the proportions…i see it now. The pelvis thing more or less, mostly last part… thank u, ill try to correct it.

#4

You need to learn perspective. There is a set formula to how objects and shapes recede in space in terms of perceived size. Objects of the same size will always be larger when closer, yet in your image, you are breaking the laws of physics. For example, her feet are huge compared to her head, yet her head is probably closer to the camera (viewer) than her feet are. Have you ever met a woman whose foot is as long as her head? You probably haven’t.

I’ve mentioned in your previous threads that you really need to buckle down and learn the critical foundations of visual art. Have you started doing that? Have you started learning/practicing from the resources listed in the Art Techniques & Theories forum (linked below in my signature) as I advised? Have you started with the Andrew Loomis books?

#5

Actually, most women’s feet are longer than the vertical length of their heads, by more than 10%. Feet do present an optical illusion of smallness when horizontally planted on the ground, far from the head. The same foot at 90° and closs to the head looks massive, and most people would probably swear it was not the same foot.

Attached are few basic visual recommendations to start with.
You have to make her left shoe look like a left shoe, instead of a right shoe as you have it now.

#6

Thanks every one for your comments:

Lunatic, i have the resources sadly not enough discipline, but it’s something i’m correcting. thanks for your time to give advice to startes like me. About perspective, actually its my miss, i really wasnt going for perspective, just a small camera tilt, so its worst than i thought… and actually i have met a women with big feet hahaha (Latinamerican people came in any…proportion you can imagine).

Quadart: dindt know that, thanks for the info and especially for the recommendations.

I ll change what must be changed and then ill buckle down to study more. Thanks again.

#7

Finally i got some time to correct this image, i wanted to do it so i could move forward (or back, to basics as suggested) I know there are some things to improved and maybe still wrong but i will move on, just wanted to put the corrected one:

#8

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