/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1517895

It's a modified Vilpuu "beanism".

Your cross-contours are horrendous, by the way. I don't say that to offend.

A few pointers

1. Study perspective. You still aren't fully thinking in form. Perspective, while not meticulously used in figure construction, will help you better understand how to think 3-dimensionally, which will in turn help you understand what a cross-contour actually is (a perspective shorthand)

2. Once you solidify your understanding of form, draw your cross-contours COMPLETELY around the form. This will help you see the volume. You can always erase these lines later, especially if you draw digitally. Note: you don't have to overdo your cross-contours. Just a few will suffice.

3. The line of action and the spine are not always one in the same. Proko's gesture videos as well as the Hampton lectures (yes, they exist, I may seed them tomorrow) to understand gesture and when it is appropriate to include the spine in your line of action. Think more of the movement instead of actual body parts.

I'm not one to draw up anything at the moment, but here's an image from an anon a while back that sums up what I said about 1 and 2. Notice how in the second sphere, anon draws entirely around the sphere instead of just using dinky crosses. He has a clear understanding of perspective and it helps him establish forms, even spheres which have no edges which are ideal in perspective.

>>1488022

It really does get easier. Start simple. The sphere is the easiest object to put into perspective, even though many people will tell you otherwise. A sphere is defined in space only by how far it is from the station point and how it is rendered. That's it. There are no corners to get right or planes to organize. The only way a sphere has deeper perspective is when you apply cross contours (IE deeper understanding of perspective for a sphere is only necessary when it's more than just a blank ball and you begin to add forms and features onto it.) Make sure you can draw circles and ovals before you go about reading Perspective Made Easy, as you will be using them a lot to apply perspective to many different forms, especially spheres and cylinders. The oval is one of the most fundamentally crucial shapes, as that's all a cylindrical or spherical cross contour is: an oval. Refer to Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching 1 for at least a week before making sure you tackle perspective, as it helps build a solid foundation of skills, such as circle and oval practice, to help you understand more complicated forms when the time comes to graduate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDNDOKnArk