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CalArts sketchbook Critique Needed
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Hi! If I were to give you any advice, it would be to practice your line confidence. This used to be a huge problem for me and a few really helpful people pointed it out and told me that drawing a single bold line instead of five or six sketchy ones indicates movement and structure much more effectively. It's horrendously awkward at first to draw one line when you think you need a lot more, but you'll eventually get a hang of how to curve them and point your pen to get the shape down quicker and in a more aesthetically pleasing way. Your technical drawings are beautiful, by the way! -
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I think Gabrielle nailed it there!
You're on the right track with the exaggerations in the faces, but I'd suggest worrying less about rendering and cross-hatching (though your cross-hatching is lovely). In fact, the cross-hatching is something CalArts would say looks "tight", as opposed to the loose, flowing lines they look for. You obviously have a good understanding of light, so I'd replace the cross hatching with a few directional lines to give an idea of shape and shadow. I think if you tried to exaggerate more with your observational drawings, you could give them as much personality as your amazing character sketches.
Also, it looks like you're using a ball-point pen, or else a very thin pen. I'd suggest trying to use a drawing pen with a 0.45 mm or higher nib to try and get some more solid, bold lines. -
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Oh crap! Sorry about that. My browser quit on me, and I must've clicked on the wrong thread when I went into my browsing history. I didn't even look at the date. Congrats tho!
This post was edited by Maggie Horton at April 6, 2013 11:30:54 PM PDT -
Maggie Horton said:
I think Gabrielle nailed it there! You're on the right track with the exaggerations in the faces, but I'd suggest worrying less about rendering and cross-hatching (though your cross-hatching is lovely). In fact, the cross-hatching is something CalArts would say looks "tight", as opposed to the loose, flowing lines they look for. You obviously have a good understanding of light, so I'd replace the cross hatching with a few directional lines to give an idea of shape and shadow. I think if you tried to exaggerate more with your observational drawings, you could give them as much personality as your amazing character sketches. Also, it looks like you're using a ball-point pen, or else a very thin pen. I'd suggest trying to use a drawing pen with a 0.45 mm or higher nib to try and get some more solid, bold lines.I disagree, I personally believe that these would look much nicer if they were done in photoshop. I am however a big advocate of cross hatching!
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That's a good point, Johnny. Even though it takes me about three hours to complete one single drawing, I just cannot stop cross hatching.
I've learned that taking that long means the person you're drawing at Starbucks just leaves, so all of my sketchbook drawings are from pictures on the internet.
Any tips on technique?
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