I’m trying to improve my drawing techniques
Please see my drawings below
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Hi Filip,
Many thanks for your drawings. There are few things you may consider:
1. Constructive drawing principles
When making portraits, build your drawing using virtual helping lines. For example, if you mark a vertical central line of the face, you would see that the face is not symmetrical and eyes, nose and mouth are shifted horizontally from that line.
2. Human anatomy
Draw what you know, not what you see. For example, model’s eyes might look natural to you for now. However, when you learn that a human eye does not have a symmetrical “tuna” shape, you would depict a realistic eye with the top point 1/3 from its inner corner and the bottom point 1/3 from its outer edge.
3. Linear perspective
Work on linear perspective. In your still-life, the top book has the vanishing point on a different horizon level than the table’s vanishing point.
The bottom book has a “reverse” perspective.
4. Rendering techniques
When drawing in graphite, use a well-sharpened pencil to render tonal values. Apply strokes along object’s contours (contours are not the same as outlines).
We hope this helps.
To your creative success,
Natalie Richy and Vladimir London
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Thank you for a quick response. Your critique helped a lot
Thank you so much That helps me a lot more than you saying good job or you are improving. I like real feedback so I can learn. I am doing the Drawing Academy and the Web Art Academy courses and I love them. I am learning so much.
Sylvia
This was really helpful, thanks so much!!!
I really thought your portraits was good. I would have never even noticed had she not pointed it out ..and I’m not quite sure what she was saying about the last one … But none the less. I thought they were good . Plus I’m no artist myself…. It’s just one of my hobbies… Guess one can only dream about going to art school. Anyway. Nice artwork & good luck to you….
Always keep in mind that there is an eye level and there are vanishing points. They don’t have to on your drawing surface but you must think in that way.
And try to differentiate between hard or soft shadow. Your type of light source will tell you that. Just some points.