May I recommend you my favourite book http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-People-Por...1051&sr=8-1 Drawing People, by Barbara Bradley. It's not a step-by-step how to draw kind of book. But it points you to the right direction - important things to look for when you draw. What you learn from this book will improve your own…
Hi all! I've been here for about a year, but haven't really properly introduced myself yet (I don't think). My name is Bear Trickey. I am 25 years old, and like many people I've seen here, I decided to quit screwing around and start taking my art seriously. I enrolled in a computer art school and am taking life drawing…
Don't worry about being 'messy' when adding construction lines when you're using a pen. What you don't want is a drawing that looks too busy or overworked. There's nothing wrong with fixing a line if you don't get it right the first (or fifth) time, and really there's nothing wrong with overworking a drawing until it's a…
Yo. Last weeks life drawings. I used a hard felt tip pen and tried to cut down on the scratchy repeating lines. It felt a little weird not being able to erase. For the last two poses, I focused on only the shadows, which had an interesting result.
Wow techno, that felt tip pen has already made an improvement. Clean lines make such a difference (something I need to work on). These two really do it for me. Good job using lines to show form (especially #006) instead of shading and stray lines all over.…
hello techno, welcome to polycount. glad to see you've already come to some basic awareness of how incredibly important firm fundamentals will be in progressing forward from this point. taking classes is definitely a good idea; figure drawing classes can be hard, or tedious, or frustrating, and often the improvement isn't…
Gauss, thanks a lot for your post! Unfortunately, I didn't read your comments until after my latest class, so hopefully next week I can implement your advice! I especially would like to try new some new media! My teacher also commented on my scratchy lines, saying they were a bit too vague. I think thats something I need…