/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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Good, break down the naval of the body into three sections, and understand their most basic shapes as well, would be another good exercise, those would be the torso, midsection, and hips. I would also do a few copies of the human skeleton as well. That may sound boring and tedious, but it really helps build on your internal memory for you to draw later on. Especially the skull from different angles and much more dynamic and foreshortened compositions and forms. You'll begin to think of the inner structure in multiple layers inside your minds eye before the pen hits the paper. I'd also suggest going through some basic art books as well. Notably, for the absolute beginner to beginner, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: 4th Edition", it really is great. Some will push you towards Loomis first, but, if you don't even know the fundamentals of draftsmanship first, it can make attempting Loomis very hard. One of the exercises is pic related, drawing this figure upside. It may seem useless, uninteresting and boring, but the point is to force you not to draw what you think you see, which is symbol drawing in a sense, but what you actually see, technically speaking, while also identifying negative space. Would highly recommend "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Remember, people don't go from zero to hero in a day, week, or month, it takes time, but that book is an amazing fundamental piece.