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© 2023 Pancmato
The ratio of torso to legs is hard for me to control ；）
Polyvios Animations
Hello again, Pancmato, and welcome back. Once again, a great job on your range of constructions, lines of action, and silhouettes. Please keep up the great works!
Aunt Herbert
I like how your construction develops logically step by step. The pose is indicated clearly right from the start, the longer sketches increasingly build up a soild anatomical foundation. There are some extra lines on those later figures, where you needed a second attempt to find the line you wanted, but it isn't to a problematic extend. But then your final fully rendered pose is a bit anticlimactic.
It looks like you skipped the underconstruction entirely and tried to eyeball it, which leads to some mistakes in proportions, that your construction work should and would have prevented. And that seems to be systematic, as it is the same effect in your other works,
If you skip the construction to avoid having a lot of messy lines to deal with, may I propose to switch to using two different drawing tools instead? Do the full construction with a hard pencil, then switch to ink for the final rendering. Ink pen, ink brush, fineliner, whatever feels comfortable to you. That way you can fully benefit from your excellent foundation work, and easily erase it (with all extra lines it may contain) once you are satisfied with the final rendering.
I know a pro illustrator, who does his foundations with a coloured pencil, and then uses a color filter after digitizing his work, so he doesn't have to rely on a rubber eraser and risk damaging the paper or the ink lines. He also says the different colors help him to indicate to his visual mind on what part of the process he is currently focusing, and he can still use graphite or coal for the rendering, if it suits his project.
It looks like you skipped the underconstruction entirely and tried to eyeball it, which leads to some mistakes in proportions, that your construction work should and would have prevented. And that seems to be systematic, as it is the same effect in your other works,
If you skip the construction to avoid having a lot of messy lines to deal with, may I propose to switch to using two different drawing tools instead? Do the full construction with a hard pencil, then switch to ink for the final rendering. Ink pen, ink brush, fineliner, whatever feels comfortable to you. That way you can fully benefit from your excellent foundation work, and easily erase it (with all extra lines it may contain) once you are satisfied with the final rendering.
I know a pro illustrator, who does his foundations with a coloured pencil, and then uses a color filter after digitizing his work, so he doesn't have to rely on a rubber eraser and risk damaging the paper or the ink lines. He also says the different colors help him to indicate to his visual mind on what part of the process he is currently focusing, and he can still use graphite or coal for the rendering, if it suits his project.
