/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Here you go, young lady:

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/

Now get out of here, this is a weird website you shouldn't be on.

>and neither should any of the rest of us

This thread got a little overly hostile while I was away.

To address anon, I now recall the Borenstein quote about rulers and guides but I don't think it's relevant. The point of doing the manual dexterity exercises recommended by Peter Han, Scott Robertson, or Borenstein himself isn't so that you can reproduce the perfect mechanical accuracy of a ruler or ellipse guide. What manual dexterity exercises are is concentrated mileage, a means of vastly improving your ability to draw organic shapes, lines and forms that are too abundant, too intricate and too time-consuming to plot out bit-by-bit with some kind of accessory.

With regards to Feng; I don't know what the context of that quote is, but if he really says to spend six months drawing what one thinks "looks cool" to begin I simply disagree. How one is supposed to enjoy or "get inspired" drawing a bunch of hairy-lined, misshapen, asymmetrical space marines or whatever is beyond me. Being faced with hundreds of failures to reproduce a straight line isn't any more of a psychological punishment than having failed at creating a completed image of a busty dark elf as you seem to be implying.

I am for all intents and purposes a beginner myself, a slacker whose done little other than memorize a few proportional rules and anatomical landmarks (certainly not hands)-and nothing more. However, because of a little hard work early on in the form of the Dynamic Sketching® exercises I feel like I'm in a great position to draw more, draw faster and draw more accurately than I otherwise would be, and I'm confident it will increase the rate at which I'm able to improve as consequence.

>if I ever get off my ass

If you disagree it's all good, but I think you're missing out by disregarding it as a beginner's exercise as that's what it's best suited for. It makes every single thing you do the moment you've completed it more intuitive, so the sooner the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hI0qMtdfng