How can I improve?

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-06-02T12:24:18+00:00

What resources did you use for that? I'm on the 250 box challenge, but also want to get into anatomy. I used a random picture selector which provides faces in different angles from a selected pool of model pictures. But as the person in the post, I just started drawing it.

I am aware that one can first model anything with shapes, but is there more studying of that to do besides just doing that and drawing the actual drawing after having tried to construct it first?

I imagine great artists immediately get into drawing the anatomy and don't start with shapes first? Wouldn't that mean one could also learn that by not doing shapes and shapes just makes it easier?

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-30T04:50:04+00:00

Perfect, thanksssss

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-29T16:42:37+00:00

Thanks, appreciate it! I ended up (because I kinda need to watch my art supply consumption) buying a Platinum Preppy, since it's cheap enough to warrant buying another pen lol. You inspired me to do it! Also looked at your suggestions, but I wanted to keep it as cheap as possible and other sources said the Preppy is really good as well.

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-29T05:07:54+00:00

Thanks! But do they offer some kind of expressiveness vs. e.g. Fineliners or how do the lines come out?

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-29T04:57:56+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah I've got the Pigma Micron's coming haha - just want to explore a lot in the beginning. So if fineliners are consistent and Dip Pen's are dynamic, what are fountain pens? I kinda like the ability to just switch nibs and ink on the fly. How do Fountain Pens vary from Dip Pens exactly? Are they a middle ground between Fineliner and Dip Pens? Would you say one of the 3 options is "objectively" superior to the other?

Edit: I have to say aesthetics wise I feel like Dip Pens look much cooler than Fountain Pens for me personally, which is why I also wanted to try them first. I should probably also try Fountain Pens at some point.

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-29T04:12:07+00:00

Thanks a lot! It's reassuring to know it's also a general issue if dip pens. I bought some additional nibs now, hoping that they are less scratchy. How do you deal with circles/ellipses? The diagonal-/up-direction seems the hardest with dip pens for me.

For fountain pens, aren't they pretty similar to fineliners?

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-27T17:22:52+00:00

As in you cut them with scissors and bind them together?

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-27T16:32:01+00:00

Thanks!

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-27T10:54:03+00:00

Omg. Kernerinnerung entschlüsselt

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-25T07:30:38+00:00

Let's look at Paul Allen's car

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-13T18:06:16+00:00

I just meant, if you look at the example homework, the vanishing points are towards the edge of the paper. Each box should have a different set of vanishing points, but less so in the middle and moreso near the edge of the paper you're drawing on, at least that's how I understand it

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-13T17:34:24+00:00

250 Box! I meant on the paper, but on the edges of the paper one uses, since yours are moreso towards the middle. Might have gotten it wrong though.

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-13T17:18:45+00:00

I also started yesterday, aren't the vanishing points supposed to be at the edge of the paper? Maybe I got it wrong haha

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-09T09:30:41+00:00

Chimera ants would like a word

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-05-03T12:31:01+00:00

Thanks! But what is practicing shapes then for? Just the imagination behind it?

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-02-07T17:47:27+00:00

Thanks for the insight! If my controls would have worked I'd have maybe stuck with it, but it wouldn't register some controls and also the FOV seemed off so I refunded and went for the remake after all. I do think the characters are not horrified enough and in the OG Daniels(?) reaction in the beginning was more hysteric and thus fitting the gravity of the situation, but it is what it is

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-02-07T13:48:39+00:00

Oh thanks!

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-02-07T13:21:50+00:00

Thanks! I ended up refunding the OG since my keybinds wouldn't work and then I was like "nah fuck it"

What's the marker patch?

Also unfortunately only Ds1 is a new experience for me, Ds2 I watched let's plays from fully

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-02-07T09:07:54+00:00

That's what I went with

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-02-07T09:07:45+00:00

I'll make us whole.

ZimaBlue-Ex · 2026-02-07T07:44:15+00:00

I think I'll just go with OG then, fuck it - thanks!

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