Ive felt somewhat intimidated to post art after seeing the things some of you post. I thought I would start a thread anyway to post things im doing for school and for fun. Im still trying to develope a style so criticism and critique is really appreciated.
Testing on scratch board. I have a bigger sheet that Im going to do a piece on soon..
To paraphrase a longer post that I couldn't post on my desktop:
I like the first one in a folk-art kind of way. Second one is solid. Third is fantastic, only crit I have is that the top of the head, slightly below right between the ears, seems to drop off and make that part of the head seem very flat whereas it seems to me that there should be a slope shown down to the eyebrow area given the lighting conditions.
Yeah that's all, sorry for the hurried post. Also, canuck huh?, what province are you in?
Im in Ontario, yourself?
Lived in BC for most of my life, but moved to Alberta last year.
AKA the boonies.
Any Crits would be awsome guys
Your content is really interesting and entices the viewer, especially in the first one. It's got great emotion. You have a great sense of design.
The newest two also, really awkward and approachable (thats a good thing ... in my opinion, at least.
I think you know that you need to hit the anatomy books more often, but other than that I like what I see!
I definitly do need to work on anatom, does anybody have any recomendation on a good anatomy book?
Constructive Anatomy and The Human Machine (2 seperate books) by George Bridgeman. In fact I think you can find some of his books online.
Ill def check those out. Anyone just have any basic adivise for perfecting anatomy? I think thats one of my weaker points in my art.
Slice open some ones arm and draw what you see.
Go from bones -> muscles -> skin. It's like learning how to draw cloth. Knowing the underlying structure helps create the form. Proportion is important. Perhaps try to create your own proportion guides. Or if you do life drawing always be measuring distances in your mind as you draw.
Kind of an idea for a childrens book or somthing..
Here it is with some color
I also added some color to that first drawing with some watercolor
nice man, i can see that as a poetry collection or something.
i think on the ram you really start to lose volume in the legs. i know you can't go back on this one, but try doing some gradations with the cross hatching.
btw, i freakin' love this one
Heres a couple sketches I did, never used pastels too much before
Couple of pieces I did for school :)
I dig the first one man; but they're all pretty cool.
I'd say keep studying form and volume, and as always, anatomy.
Good stuff! ;)
hahaha. i love this one
Hahaha, I really like that. It's got a nice texture and good rendering. Looking forward to more!
I got to start posting more stuff to get more criticisms.. You guys are great. Heres some new stuff. Mostly assignments for school.
Detailed drawing of my old jeans, creative mark making and texture was the goal for this one.
Self portrait using a mirror
Still life of a lamp and sewing machine.. not a big fan of this one
165 tiny self portraits
The assignment was about ecology and the human experience and this is what i came up with, the squirrel bed, haha
This is part of scratch board im working on at the moment about fear, the darkness, and childrens imaginations of what lurks in the dark.
Let my know what you folks think.
My final piece for my painting class, let me know what you all think
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