/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6782338
Oh, thanks. The thing that I did that helped me level up my feeling of the form the most was the first 4 lessons or so of Draw A Box. I specifically remember the sausage exercises and the intersecting forms exercises as being “aha” moments. And then Vilppu’s Renaissance Figure Drawing course. I picked up my sense of form from those two. And I also did the Marshall Vandruff perspective course. That helped to drill in the concept of “ellipses=circles in perspective so the degree of how fat or squished the ellipse is = how far the circle is pushed into perspective.” And also to really see the ends of cylinders and they change in perspective when they go above, below, in, and out.

I also watched this video at some point >>6780643 and I also watched a Peter Han demo of Dynamic Sketching organic forms. Also, BIG HELP was I saw an anon describe “feeling the form” as literally imagining/feeling/hallucinating that your pencil is not drawing a 2d line on paper, but is actually just dragging over the surface of the form you’re depicting. So when you draw a contour line, don’t think of it as “I’m drawing a contour line.” Think of it as “I’m tracing my pencil over this 3d object.”

The main thing, though, is just to try.

The rendering that I think works best for me for this type of thing (Rendering is NOT important, it does NOT matter for the exercise, DON’T try it until after you really feel the form and your cross contours are ON POINT every time) is Vilppu’s modeling tone, plus some small highlights in those areas which would be squarely facing the camera. That kind of rendering, I think, is an easier way to explain form than to use directional lighting. I haven’t really paid much attention to learning to render or to light and color.

These are lit directionally and I don’t like the rendering as much as the modeling tone ones. But the sense of form is there. NOT relying on the rendering, but because of the contour lines.

>>6727330
I kinda feel like I should stop trying to do the shadow and highlight stuff until I have a better idea of what I’m doing with rendering. But do the wireframes look okay?