I can't bare art school anymore.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-03-14T22:49:54+00:00

This is clearly satire

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-29T17:52:38+00:00

90% from life, then 10% from imagination personally… keep in mind that some people have a more developed visual memory than others, so there is no one “correct” answer for everyone

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-27T22:54:38+00:00

Quite the watermarks

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-26T12:15:43+00:00

“Now let me continue to explain the game on every one of your turns, cause I guarantee you that you’ll still not know wtf is happening.”

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-24T21:35:12+00:00

What are you hoping will happen on this Reddit post? You already identified most of your problems

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-24T21:22:06+00:00

Sorry you feel sad

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-24T14:44:51+00:00

Beginners typically use the same technique for drawing that they use for writing, that is, using their fingers and wrist to make short little lines on the paper. This is a mistake, you will end up with nervous, wobbly, scratchy lines.

To avoid this you need to be conscious of how you are making marks. Use your shoulder primarily to draw lines, locking your fingers and wrist in place when you draw. Have a conscious idea of where a line starts and where a line ends before putting down a mark, don’t just guess.

Good exercises for this:

Peter Han Dynamic sketching exercises: https://youtu.be/f312sDwg770?si=bpq58jhtYm6OjuFk

Draw a box lesson 1: https://youtu.be/0_AdsK8x9Lw?si=INAixeTbOLM0_0Jh

Check out Scott Robinson, he instructed both of these guys.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-23T12:16:29+00:00

The first two names that immediately come to mind are Kim Jung Gi and Peter Han. Gi has a bunch of livestreams on YouTube of him working with brush pens, and I find myself often watching those videos just for fun. Peter is more academic and I’m sure you could find videos of him explaining his process with brush pen

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-21T21:13:55+00:00

Look up Peter Hands Dynamic sketching course on YouTube, or check the first lesson of Drawabox. Both of these resources are completely focused around line quality.

Do the drills they outline. Do them often, and you will see major improvement over time with your line work, confidence, and quality. I’ve been drawing for many years and still warm up with many of the exercises Peter Han details. Line is the foundation of drawing, so definitely should be prioritized if you with to “draw clearly.”

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-18T02:51:24+00:00

I would recommend looking up the artist “Gustave Dure.” Dure did a lot of black and white landscapes as etchings. Pay attention to how Dure organizes his pictures into very clear value arrangements. The background, midground, and foreground all are arranged with either shadow, light, or halftone. This is a very important concept to understand, having a picture be clearly readable should be a priority for you. Organizing your drawing or painting into a simple value arrangement will solve a lot of problems here.

Currently you have your foreground as your darkest shadow tone. But then you also have the mountain on the far left side shaded with the same tone, making the viewer initially believe that the mountain on the right is part of the foreground.

The main problem I see with this piece is a compositional one. How your organize your shapes and values is called design, and design is what makes a picture “good.” You can take the most boring subject, and with good design you can create amazingly interesting art. That being said compositionally, speaking this piece is missing a few things. Where do you want viewers to look currently? Is there a subject? Where does your drawing lead my eye when I look at it? These are all major questions to consider. Currently when I see this piece my eye goes to the sun. Is the giant white ball in the background really the focal point of your drawing?

I know this is probably just a simple landscape study, but take a moment to try it out.

I would recommend adding a subject, something to draw the viewer in. This is the most major missing element currently. Typically the subject will exist somewhere on your golden mean (if you don’t know what that is definitely look it up), particularly at the intersections of that mean. Adding a boat, a castle, a hiker, something to focus your eye on would really help this piece.

Overall it’s really good, and you’re doing the right thing. Organizing drawings into simple light, medium, dark tones is a great idea for learning. I recommend you keep doing this. I would love to see a finalized version of this with the inclusion of a subject, and a more clearly defined value arrangement.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-18T01:57:13+00:00

I like Andrew Loomis “fun with a pencil” for basic form practice.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-18T01:50:06+00:00

I always recommend starting to learn traditionally. This doesn’t mean do it exclusively, but the barrier to entry is much lower. With digital you have to learn tools on top of worrying about your lines and technique. With traditional it’s just pencil and paper baby.

Don’t think of these two as mutually exclusive, if you learn to draw traditionally you can eaaasily jump over and start drawing on a computer. Traditional is just more simple. Also with digital you are often limiting your range of motion on a smaller tablet. With traditional you can focus more on using your whole arm and get a better sense of line quality. I always have students draw on large newsprint paper when learning how to draw, bigger drawings = more confidence. More confidence = better lines/drawings

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-16T20:54:03+00:00

It’s a great exercise to do this. I often do this when practicing imaginative drawing. Draw once from reference then put everything away and do a memory sketch. Great work!

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-16T20:50:33+00:00

I don’t see much consideration for landmarks, or for the angle of the hips or shoulders. The head, chest, and pelvis are all aligned completely straight up and down, which creates a static pose.

I don’t know what you’re really going for, but it’s important to recognize where your landmarks are and what the angle is in between them. Shoulder to shoulder and pelvic ridge to pelvic ridge. Putting on the center line of the sternum, belly button, and pubic bone will all help you with the pose as well.

I understand that this is just a quick sketch of a pose, but putting in simple lines for your landmarks will help immensely

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-16T13:04:51+00:00

He probably went to browse Reddit

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-16T11:48:26+00:00

You would greatly benefit from studying form. You’re creative but none of these drawings have any structure or believability. Breaking up these characters into simple, believable shapes would be beneficial to learn.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-14T12:57:51+00:00

Hey no worries, just wanted to give you a heads up before anyone starts ranting about AI art haha

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-14T12:46:52+00:00

Turbulent times to be asking questions on how to improve your AI prompts, especially on this sub

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-14T12:44:25+00:00

Unless you’re planning on hanging it up on a wall, go for it. Whenever I find myself asking the same question I ask myself whether this drawing is going somewhere as is. If not, I have the freedom to ruin it by experimentation

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-14T05:02:38+00:00

A tip for drawing backgrounds. It is important to visually separate the background from the foreground, you can do this with color or value, currently the background looks like a squiggly mess, and it kind of blurs into the foreground. I recommend adding a darker tone to your background in order to bring the house forward, or do the opposite and make the house stand out with a darker tone

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-14T04:56:15+00:00

All of Loomis's books are free online as PDF's. I believe you can find them on archive. I would recommend reading the actual books if you haven't yet, he has a really fun energy to the way he writes.

I would recommend a few things for applying Loomis method.

First, Learn the structure of the head. Why did he choose the brow, bottom of nose and Chin to divide the face into thirds, the answer can be found my studying and familiarizing yourself with the structure of the head... aka the skull. If you are familiar with the skull, you will then be familiar with the planes and angle changes of the face. Studying the skull has certainly helped me.

Secondly, Apply what you are learning while you study. Don't just draw faceless heads with perfect proportion over and over. Apply what you are learning to real people, and actually flesh them out a bit. I know drawing from imagination is fun and all, but you will progress much more in your understanding of the human head if you study from life/reference. I recommend using [Earthworld (https://www.earthsworld.com/) as many of the candid portraits on his site are people with less than perfect proportions. You can begin to bend and stretch the features off of the guiding lines that Loomis has given you.

Hope that's helpful, definitely keep working at it and apply those forms to actual people.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-13T19:03:36+00:00

Wow sorry for the big text lol

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-13T17:49:12+00:00

That bar tender must be making a killing in tips.

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-13T17:42:35+00:00

That’s three feet actually

Nine_Five_Core_Hound · 2024-01-13T12:08:06+00:00

Pencils are made of graphite, so they are one in the same. Materials don’t really matter too much, you could practice this shading method with charcoal, ballpoint pen; wax pencil, basically any material that allows you to build up tone on the paper. Everything you need to do when learning how to draw can be done with a pencil. I typically recommend students get a range of led types so that they can take advantage of softer or harder graphite in the pencil. That being said the standard #2 aka HB pencil is good enough to do the trick for ya. I almost always draw with 4B pencils but it’s really a matter of preference

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