Assignment 10/29, Part 2 (Extra)




You can faintly see the outline of the This Gun for Hire cover, which I did on the reverse side of the same sheet! That'll teach me...

The womans face is in the wrong place, but her hair is almost spot on. I think the result is making you skew the portrait to make these two meet.

I would shift the face back into position and finish it up, its otherwise a very good drawing.

Black lines are correct, light red are your old ones. You will see how far off they are compared. That said, this is a very good drawing, especially the man and the womans hair, both well sketched.

I made the correction to Veronica Lake's face in the This Gun for Hire poster copy, but I grew tired of the drawing as a whole. I skipped the lettering (measurements were off and the whole drawing is slightly skewed; manouvering the lettering in there would have taken too much effort) and just filled in some of the details I could perceive behind them.

I also did a horrible job on Ms Lake's face. The eyes are dead - I think the pupils point in different directions. *shrug*



I'm done with this. I'll go find something else to draw.

I never really liked the method of dividing up a picture into grids. You end up getting some of the angles or positions a little wrong, and it's hard to see how or where. The end result seems to be that a small error begins compounding itself, and you end up a little skewed, like what happened in your "gun for hire" picture.

I prefer to start with some basic shapes (ovals, curves), and get the relative sizes and orientations as right as I can while it's still pretty easy to see the overall structure of the picture. I think you get more "little" error in position and orientation, but it's done in a way that doesn't compound itself.

If you have the patience, you might see what sort of difference the initial sketches are when you do one with the shapes freehand and the other with the grids.

I wouldn't blame the gridding technique, personally. I know that I use lazy sighting and don't pay tremendous attention to minuscule measurements. That said, I'm probably going to discard the technique and, at most, just use a single pair of crosshairs.

On the hat: the backside of it extends way past the back of the head - as such, if you look at the picture, it looks like only the forehead makes contact with the had, and it should fall backwards

Quote: Original post by alexmoura
On the hat: the backside of it extends way past the back of the head - as such, if you look at the picture, it looks like only the forehead makes contact with the had, and it should fall backwards

Good call.

Assignment 11/02

your work is developing so fast. Are you one of those people who do something to death once you start?

Pretty much. I draw every day, I have books all over the place - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Drawing on the Artist Within, Anatomy for the Artist and more on my shopping list (and I actually read them, and practice their methods! [smile]) - and I started taking a life drawing class yesterday (once a week). Next week the instructor is going to help me with planning my composition, which is currently the weakest area of my work. I'm also spending quite a bit on drawing materials; in fact, I have some acrylic paints here that I plan to use once I learn a bit more about color.

That said, I think I'm also fortunate in that I may merely be reversing the deterioration of skills that occured over the interval during which I rarely drew (about 10 years), and then adding new knowledge to that.

Ultimately, though, I think practice is the difference. I'm pretty serious about this, as I'm working towards illustrating and animating professionally. To further develop my range, I'm selecting GDNet projects and contributing art to them so I can learn to follow other people's art direction. I think that's giving me some additional flexibility and speed in development.