/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5241161
Here is first attempt I posted a few days ago for contrast

>>5241161
Dont know why that one is sideways

>>5241161
/beg/

>>5241165
what?

>>5241161
> proportions are inhuman by design
You are a lazy fuck.
> my drawing looked flat and off balance
Practice the fundamentals, you are just drawing contour.
Study the fundamentals, faggot.

>>5241359
What the fuck are these "fundamentals" then.

>>5241382
read the sticky

>>5241359
What does just drawing contours mean?

>>5241164
the perspective on the torso is off, it should face more away from us (the viewer) to line up with the pelvis

>>5241161
it's still flat and off balance
go do some studies instead of wasting your time

>>5241161
/ic/ is not your blog.
Post in the beginners’ thread.

>>5241823
Mind telling me what makes it flat and off balance?

>>5242649
>>5241397
>>5241382
anon im reluctant to give u advice bc next time post in the beg thread. Study loomis and hampton, or anatomy for sculptors. (his) right pec is out of perspective and it looks like you have a bit of difficulty with drawing the elbow connection. I dont see how its flat or necessarily off balance but this is a beginner level sketch so u just need to focus on doing a lot of these over and over again.

>>5242715
Thank you anon for the constructive criticism. I wasnt aware of beg threads, from now on ill stick to those. Thanks

>>5241161
It's fine as a first attempt, but as a complete beginner, this can only serve as point zero, the start. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, having said that.

A few tips:

Work bigger.

Try to draw S curves, not straight lines connected together into something like a curve.

Start looking at line weight. Use more solid lines for dark areas, and the contours (the outside of the figure), and use varying weights of lines to indicate light and volume, and in some cases, depth.

Don't cop out, like you did on the crotch. Draw it. Change it into a lump or something, if you don't want to draw genitalia. But don't hide things with shadows.

Keep going, and share your results in /beg.

>>5242649
Most anons won't answer you, because they don't know.

Flat, in drawing terms, means you're not creating the illusion of depth, and volume. It's tricky with line drawing, so you have to be very accurate with the contours and lines indicating body parts and their volume - like the muscle lines you have in the chest to indicate pectoral muscles. You can also use foreshortening to indicate depth, as well.

>>5241397
"Contour" is the outside edge of an object, or in the case of cartoons, the outline of the character.

One common exercise in drawing classes is to draw objects using only the outside contour, starting with simple objects like coffee mugs, and then moving to more complicated objects. Two classes I took, one in high school, and one in college, had the final exercise for contour drawing a tree, drawing only the contour.

For the beginning phases, think of "contour" as "outline".

>>5241162
>>5241164
i don't get why everyone is railing on you, i see an obvious improvement at least on the right arm and that front leg. you went from cartoonish ovals to something that resembles more structured boxes with the muscles wrapping around it.

i wouldn't play with proportions until you nailed how proportions are supposed to be like in the first place so that you don't need to explain that it's "by design" because it would be obvious and would show.

i would continue studying whatever you're learning off from, but this time focus on the torso/clavicle/neck area, hands and feet and the pelvis. no one can tell if it's balanced or not if you don't draw how the feet are planted, he might as well be floating in space.

>>5243062
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>>5243079
Thank you anons, this is very helpful. Ill be sure to post my next work on beg/. I look forward to showing my improvements

>>5241161
Fast growth for /beg/ but please post on /beg/ next time, okie dokie anon?

>>5243143
Noted, wasnt aware that beg was the place to post your pics. Will do so in future