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Posted at December 31, 1969, 6:00 pm: you're definately learning anyway ! A few things that might help: On the selfportrait: the larger masses of your head are rather empty in your drawing, you're studying the skull: connect those bony masses with what you see, they come through on a lot of places (highlight on zygomatic arch, shadow beneath; temporal fossa (shadow); mental protuberance/mentalis muscle (part of the chin that sticks out: light, shadow on both sides, not only above and below ... and don't be afraid to push your darks) Your proportions seem pretty good, so I take it you measure them ? Next thing would to also pay attention to the forms ! The one before (skull): if you drew the cross through the face, it'd be nowhere 90 degree angles: horizontal through the nose: top of skull is off, and it's also very clear on the line through the zygomatic bones) SYMMETRY ! Fixing the top/side of the cranium would already make a huge difference. The eggs: if you put it on a table, put in the shadow on the table as well, that'll help the impression. For the direction of the light/shadow ... I haven't studied that yet, but I imagine if you could draw a straight line all around on your (real-life) egg (or 3 lines: one around each axis) and practiced drawing those lines, it'd be a huge help ... I ocasionally do that for a sphere (a puzzleball I have) and it helps big time, it's not easy though (but who cares about easy anyway). Practice on ellipses too (glasses, other objects). On drawing from imagination: try to redraw things you drew from reference without ref. At first you'll probably remember nothing ... close your eyes, and keep thinking, ask yourself questions about it. Then redraw with ref, make sure you now answer all your questions you couldn't before ... redraw without ref. Think about large things first (action, big masses, direction these large masses are in, ...) ! Jot down what you know in small drawings, and compose the final from that (like in a test, when you first seem to remember nothing, then a few keywords, until it all comes back). This is also very much an excercise in observation and in problemsolving, so it's not all that important what you use as subject, but preferably things that interest you, and that are simple (at first). Loomis has some excercises on this (his approach to draw a head & figure (mannikin frame,...)), other than that things from life or from masterdrawings would be best imo. See ya ! Original of the message was taken from http://www.conceptart.org/forums/ Previous Post: I notice I've not been getting much reactions lately. Next Post: Thanks for the advice. |