Not a bad choice of books. How to render is quite new, I should get it at some point.
Those you’ve made aren’t bad at all.
Edit: “Those aren’t bad at all” could point to the exercises but meant yours
I find straight lines the easiest. Not because it necessarily is easy but the way I do it seems to work for me. What I do is completely lock the wrist and move my whole arm with short lines and my whole upper body with long ones. I place the pen tip above the starting point and do a stroke without actually drawing anything to see where it ends. Then if it lines up, I draw the same line, usually dropping the pen tip on the paper while my arm is moving and lifting up before stopping.
If it doesn’t line up, I rotate the paper and make the dry run again to check alignment. It’s important for me to draw the line in a comfortable direction (where my arm is facing) so I rotate the paper rather than trying to orientate myself. Locking the wrist is the key, absolutely no movement, everything else can move.
Correct freehand ellipses with correct minor axis and constrained between two lines is hard for me. I’ve only succeeded to do that in one session, and that was when I was showing my brother how hard it is I really can’t draw them, I just failed at failing.
@Craig Jones thanks dude I take it one drawing at a time @swmo thanks @michalis I did’t know paolo uccello, man the guy is something who needs Blender to make wireframe drawings?
Practising what I learnt from Bammes, the drawings uses some photos of a plastic skull an artist upload. I think I will hit the art store and buy myself a plastic skull or skeleton. These where bloody hard to do and the looking up and down poses came out wrong.
I have been far too lazy, 3 months and no updates at the rate that I am going take 15 years to get to 500 bad drawings:o. I got to kick this shit into high gear.
I thought I would check on my progressive to see if I am learning something from all these studies that I do.
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@Gspin thanks for the kind words man, It took me a long time to get out of the paint by numbers mode.
I am always lurking on the conceptart forum browsing through the various sketchbooks, I have seen a few people there do exercise from stills from movies to trying to learn lighting and composition etc. I thought I would give this a try myself so a movie study from Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows.