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Black-Chimaera [2018-03-18 18:20:03 +0000 UTC]

Hello! I’m from

I like that this started as just a foreshortening practice, and turned into an entire painted drawing. I do that all the time as well, then complain to my friend that this practice is taking forever.

What I like about this :

-The colors are vibrant and contrast each other nicely (the violet of her outfit with the green of the grass, the red/brown of the trees with the blue of the sky).

-You did an entire painted picture with foreshortening, shading, a story behind it, only for a practice. I’m impressed!

-You shaded with colors from her environment, not only with darker versions of the same colors, or a black layer set to multiply over everything. Colors in real life bounce off of each other, you’ll see the green of the grass on the trees, not just limited to the grass. Each part of the drawing is shaded using multiple colors, making the entire thing vibrant.

What I think could be improved :

-Anatomy is probably your weakest point in this, and the number one struggle of many, many people (I can’t draw a woman to save my life). Unless she is still a child, her head is too big. 6.5 to 7.5 heads tall is usually what is mostly seen in adults. She is about 5 heads tall, and even with foreshortening, it still looks too big. Digital art is great in that it let’s you resize parts of your drawing indefinitely.

-The pose looks a bit unnatural. You got the basic down, with the leg and arm of the same side facing opposite direction, but it lacks the weight to make it less stiff. Here’s a running 3D model from Posemaniacs : www.posemaniacs.com/archives/2… Look how the body twist. Her leg supporting her weight has a hip higher up, and her torso turns to counterbalance the weight. Assymetry is what makes a pose lively and real, and hips and shoulders are the two easiest way to convey that.

-Did you ran it through a photoshop filter at the end? Or was the final picture too compressed when you saved it? It has a grainy feel throughout and I’m unsure what it is.

If all your practices look like that, I’m sure you are learning a lot more than just what you intended to practice. Maybe you don’t realize it now, but going the extra mile is often what pays off in the end. Don’t be afraid to look at references, it’ll make your practices much easier! Good work!

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Aya-DNA [2018-03-17 14:18:54 +0000 UTC]

Hello there I'm come from

First, I like the concept that you use in here like how the vines wrap around her and capture her away inside the dark forest, also how her twin tails hair blow away by a wind, this is so beautifull (if we talked about "dark" themed art) and I really love seeing dark themed art, also the vibe that you use in here and the art style that you use are pump the concept of this drawing, like this is have its own aura and interest amazing art as I can say
And I also find that you trying to practice the foreshortening, remember the foreshortening should be pointing out towards the viewer more, for example the fist point out to the camera or something like that... and I kinda lost where part from this draw that have foreshortening point @.@

If you know how to draw a box in perspective, you probably also know how to draw a human figure, an animal, or almost any other form in plausible perspective. Although the human figure is a heck of a lot more complicated than a box, there are enough parallel or bisymmetrical landmarks on the human body, such as the points of the hips, feet, knees, eyes, and shoulders, that we can use similar converging lines to give drawn figures a believable sense of perspective depth.

Foreshortening of the limbs and torso doesn’t always come easy at the outset. To understand the concept, you must first understand the word foreshortening itself, “Foreshortening is exactly just that, simply a shortening of the form’s length."
To comprehend better the dynamics of foreshortening, try thinking of the pelvis and chest as separate forms, connected by muscle. For example, if you draw your model from below, you will observe the hip slightly overlapping the stomach, while the stomach overlaps the chest a bit, and so on.

Light itself is subject to the forces of foreshortening. When drawing the model, notice how the halftones within the illuminated area gradually dim and darken as the model’s body moves away from the light source. This phenomenon is particularly noticeable when drawing a standing figure at your eye level and lit from above. As the model’s body subtly moves downward away from eye level, the subject’s forms not only shorten but also darken. This results in a perspectival double whammy, with the graduated light synergistically reinforcing the physical foreshortening of the figure. For example, you will typically notice a dark edge surrounding the periphery of your model when the light source is behind you and your subject is frontally lit. If you look at the figure from a side angle, this dark edge will seem to disappear, and instead of finding a sharp line you will discover a series of gradually darkening halftone shapes leading into the shadow shape. But from the front, these halftone shapes blur together. Like railroad tracks merging in the distance, these multiple delicate halftone shapes also merge, receding around the curve of the body to become one very thin but graphically foreshortened linelike shape. So I can say you can't ignore the light source even when drawing a foreshortening.

Again, as I can said, a really well done piece, with only a few relatively minor flaws. Hopefully you'll find my pointers helpful.... If you find a problem about how to understand it nicely don't forget to research, google are the best place to gather information
Despite all that this is an amazing art ^^ the pose, expression and composition are awesome  

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adam-ant2 [2018-03-10 17:19:53 +0000 UTC]

One way to foreshorten limbs that I have found effective is to draw the arms as two separate cylinders.

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mixnmash [2018-03-10 16:12:36 +0000 UTC]

A daring piece! Have you heard about Sycra? He is on youtube teaching about poses and foreshortening. If you haven't, check it out!

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BuhoMercedes [2018-03-10 02:46:53 +0000 UTC]

Hey, it's Zuben!

I really like this! The colors are really moody and give off a ethereal vibe and seeing as the vines seem to be moving on their own and wrapping around the character it really fits the rest of the painting. The background trees are really good and I like how they overlap each other it gives  very good sense of depth. You're doing pretty good with the anatomy and the foreshortening. The proportions fit, as I see you are doing a shorter character (I suspect this is a teenager as they look rather young). The foreshortening could be a bit adjusted as I feel that the top half or the forearm should be sticking out a bit more when seeing how the positioned. By that I mean the it appears like the should be pointing out towards the viewer more. It is still pretty good and foreshortening is complicated, I still struggle with it myself...... a lot . Overall this is really good! Great job and I can't wait to see more from you!

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