Forum posts by Red7lotus

I won't say that proko is bad, but his videos sometimes lack some depth.

If you want to get acquainted with perspective, there's only one way:

Draw a lot of boxes on a page, with one vanishing point, and from that point make some floating boxes going up, going down, tipped to one side...etc...This will help you.

when you are familiar and comfortable with this, you can switch to 2 points perspective, and repeat the process.

Draw streets, boxes, bottles, in any angle, making sure you detect where the horizon, so your piece's eye level, is, and you'll get an even better vision of things.

I hope you'll get through this pickle. :)

ckarsanac, first of all, I want to command you for doing something at 40.

Secondly, 30 seconds figure sketches are more for capturing the movement more than being a full drawn figure. It will look stiff and horrid and you will want to erase it/throw it away, but i'd tell you not to.

If you want a good website to teach you from the start, I would suggest Draw a box or CTRL paint.

They are equally good to teach how to draw, in different ways.

The reason I am saying that is that yes, you can draw 100 figures and get a bit loose, but it may not ultimately give you all you need if for example you want to make a full blown illustration.

I would also recommend the Loomis books or the Scott Robertson books (which also have videos), figure drawing and head for loomis, matte painting videos from Scott Robertson.

It is mostly after you've gone through this that you can finally draw a full blown illustration. I won't tell you that doing gesture drawing is bad, but I will tell you to do it everyday. The more you draw, the better you are at it.

Stick to 30 seconds for 15 minutes if you can, then learn a bit more from the other links I gave you, do the exercises, and after a few days/weeks, you'll see something click.

You can then compare your old drawings to your new drawings and look how far you've gone :)

Never give up!

First questions I would ask would be:

Did you use the figure drawing tool for this or is this from imagination?

The one thing that jumps at me the most right now is the size of the hand compared to the head. I think it is too small.

Hello.

I registered just because I think I saw what is wrong with the character.

You are speaking of the one in the front right? If so, then it is a question of perspective. The three quarter you made is somewhat wrong. The right shoulder should be a bit more back. Think of it in terms of relations from the head to the torso. if the head is one way, and you want it all to go the same direction, then you should follow perspective and add it to your drawing.

It isn't wrong, just slightly off. Best way to know for sure would be to flip your image. That way the mistakes are more noticeable because you see them under a fresh perspective.

On the character in the background, it is more a question of proportions. At the moment it is 5 heads and a half. The most common proportions for characters is 7 heads and a half.

Personally, I think you went a bit far with inking. There are parts of the body on either of those drawings that become lost because of how dark you went on them, such as the chin and the neck.

I hope I helped a bit ;)