Looking for thoughts and tips on this. Basically, I've been doing life drawing every day for about 6 months now, and went to weekly classes for a couple of months before that. I do it mainly for fun, to improve my appreciation of anatomy, and I suppose with the hope of one day translating it to my 3D work. The thing is,…
Cheers guys. Yep some Loomis head studies are definitely on the cards. I've managed to find Charles Bargue Cours Des Dessin too which covers his methods of drawing from casts and light/shade quite extensively. Two Listen - it's interesting you mention that, and it's a mindset im beginning to appreciate after reading the…
Guess I'll interject my personal experience into the mix here, for better or for worse. To be totally honest, I think the one thing that holds so many people back these days is not a lack of critique. It's this weird reliance on outside critique they've somehow fused into their brains. Largely due to the prevalence of the…
Jocose - THANK YOU. Those links are great, but that book. Wow. I know a lot of people probably don't suffer from the fear thing and would be just like 'man up, push through it' which is a fair suggestion, but obviously a lot of people do have the problem of fear of art failure and that book is incredible, I bought the iPad…
Cheers guys. Ok, I'll up the time I do it, and squeeze in some shorter sessions whenever I get a few mins. I think the key though is as you say, lack of critique. I don't really get crit from anyone. Unfortunately none of my friends/colleagues are into figure drawing or anatomy so I don't get much help from them, and while…
Yeah, there's great material out there ; also some great videos on youtube ... if you pick wisely. The thing is, drawing structurally (from "bones to shading") can develop interesting analytical skills, but in the end one still needs to think of every study as a 2D composition on flat paper. Therefore, silhouette and…
Hi Tom, I kindof skimmed through the thread but one can tell a few things from that life study you just posted. It's actually not very good (I am not trying to be mean - it's just that being honest is more useful than patting ;) ) but it could be fixed very easily by applying a few very basic yet extremely powerful art…