Sketchbook Thread of SoftVision

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Hi, I’m 20 years old and completely new to drawing.

I started off with Betty Edwards’ “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” in 2010. I’ll start with a couple of drawings from there. I was not far away from that self-portrait exercise but I left it.

This year I started with Andrew Loomis’ “Fun With A Pencil” and I hope to stick with it till the end and progress to his other books.

I’m just getting started and I’d welcome any form of criticism (even the harshest, but lol be reasonable) if it helps me become better.

Here’s a couple from Betty Edwards’ exercises:

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Did this one last night:

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I’m uploading my work as soon as I complete it from now on. Here’s todays:

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You’re doing good, I don’t have any critique for you at this point other than to keep going!

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Welcome to the club!
Take your time with these, don’t rush., no matter how long they take you to do. Also, get a book or something on perspective, that’s also very important. Because forms (of human or animal) can be simplified to boxes, cylinders and spheres and you need perspective for that.
Keep going!

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Yeah, Loomis encourages using shapes in ‘Fun With A Pencil’ without specifying anything particular. He covers some perspective at the end of the book but I’ve got some way to go till I reach that part. I took a sneak peak at ‘Successful Drawing’ by Loomis which I plan to read next. One of the first things I noticed was some table with the shapes you mentioned so I assume he’s going to cover that stuff.

Thanks for the advice. :slight_smile:

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Currently working on the Figure section of the book and it’s taking me a bit of time to get used to. So it might be a few more days before I make any uploads.

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Apologies for the light scans, especially the first two. They were just lightly done and these are all just early efforts.

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If you would really like to learn I would suggest real anatomy and not stylized, it has a comic book feel to it. I think something to remember as well is different gradations or tonal value.

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Hi, thanks for your advice. I’m still new to drawing and I’ve seen many people recommend Loomis so I picked up ‘Fun With A Pencil’ hoping to learn something. I think some of Loomis’ other books cover some anatomy (Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth) so I was thinking I’d eventually graduate to that one and his others. I’m not familiar with the concept of tonal value yet, so I’ll look into it.

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