I've been doing a character trying to apply the principles that John taught us. Here it is:
This was my first try. This character it's based on my uncle, he has a huge head and jaw, and very hairy eyebrows.This first drawing was no too cartoony, everything is very proportional it needs more contrast in his parts and features.
Needs more negative space too, inside and outside.
Here I made the skull more little and the jaw more big. I also give more profundity to de eyes.I'm still having trouble with the eyebrows, it's difficult to me to make it wrap around the head.
I felt that I could do something more interesting with the mouth, it's too flat.
It's not also the expression that I was trying to make, I wanted something harder, dry, angrier.
Here I made it more interesting (I think...), it has more contrasts, more negative spaces (outside), but I needed to get more contrast in the features (the eyes, nose, mouth, jaw...), It also have a more complicated construction and it's no too solid.It looks like Bakshi, Isn't it?
I have to get it more simple, and cartoony.
I made his jaw bigger, his nose bigger. I'm more happy with this result, but I need more simplicity. I think it's too realistic.
This is my last drawing (till now...) and I more happy with it. It has more constrast, the shapes are more simple, but I still need more space inside.So, what do you think fellas? John?
on your 3/4 views the noses are too far to the right and pushed too far back, maybe you'd see it more if you looked at them in reverse. I think your guys don't look mad enough because their brows and mashing their eyes enough, the eyes look too big and cute.
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ReplyDeletethank you very much Anne!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna keep that in mind
OK, this shows me that you have to think more about what you are learning when you copy, because the principles in the old cartoons are not showing up in these original drawings.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, drawing humans is much harder than drawing cartoon characters that are made of spheres, eggs, pears and simple forms.
But my criticisms of these caricatures are as follows:
1) drawings are really stiff
2) Parts of the drawing do not connect - they exist in their own planes.
They do not agree on what position they are in space
the eyes are in one perspective, while the jaw is in another, etc.
The neck doesn't flow up into the cranium
3) Expression is too symmetrical
However, if you try at this point to make them asymmetrical you may confuse that concept with making all the construction and perspective agree.
4) When drawing humans, have the actual human sit for you. Then draw what you see- even if you are caricaturing it.
That way your eye helps your brain combine what you think construction would produce, and what the actuality is.
Using observation to correct your predetermined notion of how something should look
eye and brain need to be in agreement
a tricky partnership
thanks John
ReplyDeleteI need to understand better what I'm doing
I'll keep on working and straining!