First "Real" post on polycount

baconboltz

Hey guys I have finally decided to post a sketch study I'm working on.


Heres the image I'm studying.(I know its small)



This is my study



I would love some feedback from you guys

onera

Image source not found at my end

baconboltz

Should Work now

curlyhair

Nice, but what you study from this one? What you want to learn from it? If it's a gesture, you could skip all the detailing, and in spare time make another 10 If your goal is to learn the costume, then you still have to finish this one

baconboltz

Well i was thinking about painting over it but I actually might go the gesture direction. Time to learn gesture drawing \o/

hattonslayden

my recommendation would be to work on your gesture and structure

a good method i us is to get a whole bunch of reference poses you like and a timer. spend only 1min -5 mins max and move on

if you are using photoshop then you can make a canvas that is much Wider than you need and put you reference to one side.

on a separate layer do your quick study. when your time is up take that study layer and place it over the reference image and see how close you got. then try again a few times before trying another image

theduderdude

cool

baconboltz

By structure do you mean the pose of the figure or? I will definitely do what you recommend thanks for the tips.

hattonslayden

pardon me.

allow me to clarify what i mean

by 'structure' i am talking about perspective, proportions, placement, volume, foreshortening etc.

to use an example. on your helmet the horn that is represented as physically closer to the viewer (the one on the right) is acutally smaller than the one on the left that is suppose to be farther away
hopefully this quick sketch will give you a visual as to what i mean

baconboltz

I see what you mean now, I actually told myself needed to fix the perspective.

BagelHero

Just because it's a little bit relevant and I do so love an excuse,
~Gesture drawing~
I'd personally recommend buying [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240810961"]this[/ame] and [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240811070/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0926Y39K2E5H88C97GS4"]this[/ame] for a better experience, and more organised content, I have not been paid for this shameless display of advertising, etcetc

But this used to be a different cut of the books I recommend above, the site has unfortunately since gone down > http://www.floobynooby.com/pdfs/gesturedrawingforanimation.pdf

This is a short sample of the kind of content you can expect. You can basically take all the "Drawing for animation"s and just cut it down to "Drawing" because there's a lot of really good practical advice for capturing the essence of a pose regardless of what it's used for > http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr/classes/ids252Sp12/lectures/StanchfieldBook_01_GoForTheTruth.pdf


That said, on your current study I definitely second the opinion that you need to work on your construction. Just copying what you see from a 2D standpoint isn't really enough!
Have a look at, say, ctrl+paint. I think I remember that having a good video on form?

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/videos/form-not-shape
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/videos/simplifying-form

Also while where here, nice stuff to get some some juices flowing:
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/

They even have some videos on gesture drawing and more stuff on construction and form! It's a good place to start.
Looking forward to seeing you progress.

baconboltz

I actually might grab those 2 books you linked , plus I'm also doing some ctrl paint outside of my drawing classes.

baconboltz

So i decided to do some pose studies






taking figure drawing next semester decided I want to start somewhere