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September 16th, 2007 |
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At school, in crafts (which is SO boring an friend of mine actully fell asleep in it yesterday) I was drawing and a bunch of girls gathered around (It's an all girl class) to watch, and I got a TON of requests for pictures. That's how I went from "The-strange-new-girl-in-school" to "the-srtange-new-girl-who-can-kick-butt-at-drawing". That was off subject, so anyways, this is one of the pictures that I drew for one of the girls. SPIDERMAN!!! |
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September 16th, 2007 |
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Awesome! :D You'll get tons of practice now. Just make sure your schoolwork doesn't suffer for all the drawing you'll be doing.
Not seeing any construction lines. Did you draw this caligraphically? I appreciate that your lines aren't fuzzy, but you make long, sure strokes. You also use some overlapping to help us see depth, like on his right arm overlapping his deeper torso.
The thing that would help this picture the most, in my opinion, is more study of anatomy. I recommended some very good authors to Faileas on [url] this picture, but I'm going to recommend a different book to you. Mike Matessi's Force book. That is, Force Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators by Michael D. Mattesi. The book is difficult to understand. But the principles he teach, if you can figure out what he's talking about, are amazingly important.
What it boils down to is that the two halves of most creatures are basically identical. However, each half in itself is very much not identical. In Spiderman here, you could chop his limbs down the middle and they'd essentially be in the same. That's very much not the case, and the body has a natural flow to it.
"Flow" is a very nebulous art term that most artists "know" but can't explain. The best I've been able to come up with is that flow is the eye moving back and forth as it scans down a figure. See this example: [url]
You'll notice in that picture that the two sides of the limb are very much not symmetrical. In fact, they tend to be opposites, so the eye bounces back and forth. I believe this is part of what Mike Matessi is trying to teach in his book.
Hopefully that helps in some way. Congratulations on your new title at school! Hopefully that'll help you update even more, and get even better! |
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October 7th, 2007 |
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Oh, hey. I just did a tutorial on this "flow" thing I was talking about over here [url]
Also, here's some definitions I wrangled out of a teacher. However, these are not everyone's definitions -- these are ONE person's definitions. These words are used to mean all sorts of things when dealing with art.
Flow - The eye smoothly moving through a picture.
Rhythm - The eye changing directions/bouncing along the flow of a picture.
Tempo - The rate that an eye is affected by a rhythm. |
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