>>7609722
1 hr study, found out that I really dislike using pen on its own, surely next time I will try to block things out first
any advice on how to begin to understand lighting/shadow? I'm trying to draw in dark areas where they look dark, exclude light areas where they look light, but when I look at what I end up producing it doesn't seem to make much sense within the drawing
>>7609974
you mentioned in another post that you only use pen, do you mean from start to finish? do you use pencil before working with pen to sketch out a composition/construction or do you just dive straight in with a wire-frame outline thing with pen alone?
and, I feel like this is a dumb question, but is the best way to begin to construct objects and assign values to faces to just... start doing it without really understanding it, and in time I'll understand it through practice and assessing whether it looks good/bad? I don't get how you're supposed to go from still life -> construction -> detail, I'm just going straight to detail, and not only has it not gone very well, I feel like I won't learn much from this in the long-run, my brain just kind of switches off and goes into brainless colouring-in mode when at this stage I think my mind should always be active making each stroke deliberate and so on
>but look at how he moves his brush. he does not care how the bristles fold and move for each brush stroke
isn't it just a case of it looking like he doesn't care because he has faith in what the resulting brush stroke will look like before he makes it? currently I can only tolerate at most 20% of the lines I make, 80% of my time drawing is spent trying to obscure the line I just drew by going over it or erasing instead of progressing the larger work
unless your point really is to stop fixating on how accurate the curves I draw are to the curves I see/imagine, in which case that's going to take a lot of brain rewiring to try to stop, I hate feeling like I have a lack of control over my arm