/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6782133
It’s really not.
>>6782151
It just… it’s one of those things like learning how to see and not symbol draw. It’s perhaps simple in concept, but not that easy to do until it just clicks. It’s like learning to whistle. Just keep doing it and you’ll get there. It’s a major level up in your ability to feel form and draw and construct. So it’s worth it. You don’t have to grind this stuff exclusively. Just every once in a while, between your other studies, give it a shot to sort of flex that muscle and see how strong it is. This isn’t something like line control where if you just bash your head against it, you’ll eventually be able to draw good circles or straight lines. So if you’re not really feeling it, try something else for a bit. You’ll get a moment where it’ll feel like you can see in 3d and you’ll think “hm I bet I can do organic forms now.” Start off simple. Basic volumes. Then once you can do those, feel those, you just modify them. Deform them into similar, adjacent forms. Start with a ball. Make it an egg. Make it a sausage. Extrude and cut and add and intersect basic forms. Make a cube pushing out of a sphere, for example, or two cylinders intersecting. Stack boxes. Then from there, it will probably just click one day, and you’ll be able to make random blobs that go from hard to soft edges, etc. Like playing with modeling clay.
>>6782103
Those are literally better spheres and cylinders than mine. Just try simple deformations of basic shapes. Can you put cross contours along the length of a cylinder? Probably. So if you make the ends of the cylinder spheres instead of ellipses, you’ve got a sausage. Then you bend the sausage and stack floppy sausages on top of each other.
>>6781549
Good! Sometime I’ll have in mind what I want it to be, others I’ll just draw a blob and then give it form after. If you find certain forms hard — hard to soft, pinching, round to square — use organic forms to practice.

Am I feeling the form yet?