Other than everything, can anyone please give me a few tips and hints as to how I can improve? Or if anyone can lead me to any books or tutorials that actually help rather than make things more complex.
I'm actually quite overwhelmed at the detail and quality of the work I've seen here and, since I have been trying to teach myself sketching and all, I am really encouraged and inspired by this forum.
I want to keep following the sketching by shapes and then refining. I find that works for me. I just can't seem to perfect my proportions, exact shape placements and poses. That's almost everything, yeah? Help? hehe.
Click on the link below for some of my rough sketches:
http://imageshack.us/g/851/imag0326q.jpg/
I'd appreciate any help, tips, criticism, advise possible.
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Thanks for that. You're right. I should keep practising and I am. It's just so annoying when I can't get the basic shapes in the right size, proportions, pose, tilt, etc. Like, I know how I want the end result to be, I just don't get all the pieces to fit and with regards to lengths, forget it LOL
I was wondering if anyone knew a place with loads, and I mean, LOADS of examples of sketches that go from Blank, Basic Shapes, Final. I've seen some ideas but the style I use I found in one book and I liked it and it flowed with me. I just can't find that many examples.
books i've studied from are
"Rapid Viz" by Kurt Hanks and Larry Belliston
"Constructive Anatomy" by George B. Bridgman
"Figure Drawing" by Michael Hampton
along with any books from the masters. also, if you want a website for figure models go to http://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx and browse for poses by model.
hope this helps
I would HIGHLY recommend Feng Zhu's tutorials. They are extremely useful and there's a lot of theory coming from the industry.
Here's the link : http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL
Hope you'll enjoy!
Thank you so much. Those will definitely help.
Thank you!
I've actually been watching all his videos. He's just too pro lol.
I'm considering buying a Wacom Intuos4 tablet but thought I'd better improve my pencil drawings and sketches before spending good amounts of money on something that won't exactly get me anywhere without foundational skills.