Any Crits would be awesome so i can do better on the next round.
I'd say add more contrast, indicating a light source. It will give your drawings more depth. Also, depending on your patience, use a really sharp pencil (keep it sharp, have a piece of sandpaper with you)and in a very small circular motion, lightly shade, slowly building up your tones. You can get a much more smooth and subtle variation of values. Good start! The proportions look good, and good job of getting those subtle curves along the edge of the figure. There are no straight lines.
Any Crits would be awesome so i can do better on the next round.
I'd say add more contrast, indicating a light source. It will give your drawings more depth. Also, depending on your patience, use a really sharp pencil (keep it sharp, have a piece of sandpaper with you)and in a very small circular motion, lightly shade, slowly building up your tones. You can get a much more smooth and subtle variation of values. Good start! The proportions look good, and good job of getting those subtle curves along the edge of the figure. There are no straight lines.
Thanks for the crit man, so the sandpaper just serves the function of keeping the pencil sharp? I have never experimented too much with pencil drawings. We only had an hour for each drawing. The model was uncomfortable and took tons of breaks.
Any Crits would be awesome so i can do better on the next round.
looking good so far man... Figure drawing was one of my favorites, although we never really had any "fit" models to work with, always old and overweight (which I think is why I draw the way I draw now).. But are these in charcoal or graphite? I know you only had an hour, but some tips I can say are try focusing on the shadows to form the outlines as opposed to one solid line to form the body. Proportions and everything looks good, so you have that down, but with your strokes while shading I think it helps if you follow the contours of the shape a little more. That seems to make a more dimensional drawing. The hard outline around the edge of the body tends to flatten out the image (which is cool to get when illustrating, but in figure drawing and try to make it more realistic, having the shades form the edge with negative space and hard blocks of shading works well in showing dimension. ) If you ever work with charcoal, you should try out starting with a toned background with maybe some rubbed out vine charcoal, that way you can work with reductive highlights and get some deeper tones with some heavier charcoals. For graphite, those solid graphite pencils are pretty awesome too. but seriously looking good, good form, and good proportions, what matters most. A smoother hand with shading and a wider variety of tones will help define the shape of the form better. And of course there are millions of different ways to go about things, just offering some suggestions.
Anyway, here is a timber wolf head I started fucking with the other day.
a little progress on this piece, haven't had a chance to work on it, since i went away, more so now that my eyes all blurry from an injury hope it heals!!
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nugget said about 3 months ago
well heres mine
inkcorf said about 3 months ago
Still finishing this.
Lmerrill said about 3 months ago
MVP said about 3 months ago
Any Crits would be awesome so i can do better on the next round.
Love Sick said about 3 months ago
Lmerrill said about 4 months ago
I'd say add more contrast, indicating a light source. It will give your drawings more depth. Also, depending on your patience, use a really sharp pencil (keep it sharp, have a piece of sandpaper with you)and in a very small circular motion, lightly shade, slowly building up your tones. You can get a much more smooth and subtle variation of values. Good start! The proportions look good, and good job of getting those subtle curves along the edge of the figure. There are no straight lines.
MVP said about 4 months ago
Thanks for the crit man, so the sandpaper just serves the function of keeping the pencil sharp? I have never experimented too much with pencil drawings. We only had an hour for each drawing. The model was uncomfortable and took tons of breaks.
David Mottier said about 3 months ago
http://davidmottier.tumblr.com/
sydfly said about 3 months ago
cult said about 3 months ago
deekin said about 3 months ago
A recent cartoony commission I completed...
Itsjustmarc said about 3 months ago
was bored last night
I like these
Killer Napkins said about 3 months ago
looking good so far man... Figure drawing was one of my favorites, although we never really had any "fit" models to work with, always old and overweight (which I think is why I draw the way I draw now)..
But are these in charcoal or graphite?
I know you only had an hour, but some tips I can say are try focusing on the shadows to form the outlines as opposed to one solid line to form the body. Proportions and everything looks good, so you have that down, but with your strokes while shading I think it helps if you follow the contours of the shape a little more. That seems to make a more dimensional drawing. The hard outline around the edge of the body tends to flatten out the image (which is cool to get when illustrating, but in figure drawing and try to make it more realistic, having the shades form the edge with negative space and hard blocks of shading works well in showing dimension. )
If you ever work with charcoal, you should try out starting with a toned background with maybe some rubbed out vine charcoal, that way you can work with reductive highlights and get some deeper tones with some heavier charcoals.
For graphite, those solid graphite pencils are pretty awesome too.
but seriously looking good, good form, and good proportions, what matters most. A smoother hand with shading and a wider variety of tones will help define the shape of the form better.
And of course there are millions of different ways to go about things, just offering some suggestions.
Anyway, here is a timber wolf head I started fucking with the other day.
Itsjustmarc said about 3 months ago
Killer Napkins said about 3 months ago
Itsjustmarc said about 3 months ago
tattoo I drew up for a client just adding the color
Artist_RX said about 4 months ago
David Mottier said about 3 months ago
MattisGentle said about 3 months ago
And did this last night:
deekin said about 3 months ago
Badass!
johncarrington said about 3 months ago
Owl needs a phatty in his beak. He looks blazed
Love Sick said about 3 months ago
jeremiah was a said about 4 months ago
wonwin said about 4 months ago
WOWzaaaaaa
inkcorf said about 4 months ago
Thank you dude.
You have amazing works, especially that Belgian Malinois.
inkcorf said about 4 months ago
Sweet, love this.
HEROIC artproject said about 4 months ago
haha fast sketch today :)
Love Sick said about 3 months ago
cult said about 4 months ago
DUDE!
this is my inking progress and final version with photoshop
Andrew Haines said about 3 months ago
Making this compumaterialized later tonight hopefully
H0RSETHIEF said about 3 months ago
nugget said about 4 months ago
asking for comments and critiques
lups said about 4 months ago
inspired by another design that using playing card, so this is my version :)
xul1349 said about 4 months ago
Man, what is with you and spacesuits?:) great job as always
lazyeye said about 4 months ago
Dude.. I've always loved your work. This is so bizarre and cool.
camoshop said about 3 months ago
Love Sick said about 3 months ago
MylesB said about 3 months ago
Really like this
deekin said about 3 months ago
MarrySmile said about 4 months ago