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My project in Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination course
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Hello there,
For my final project I revisited a theme I'd taken interest in, in the past. The famous Icelandic medieval piece of literature, Egils Saga. There are many things I'm not happy with, most notably my linework and overall lack of definitive style. However, I'm very happy with the course and feel it helped me add a more compact method to my drawing arsenal. I aim to revisiting the course, studying and applying more of what I've learned in future projects. Furthermore, I feel Tom is an excellent teacher and the first I've heard, in my many years of studies, who made a point of telling his students to be relaxed while drawing. As soon as I have the money and time, I'll most certainly apply for his more extensive courses.
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displayname7958177
Good job mate! I really like your drawing!
The only feedback I could make, is that the sun seems to be really high in the sky (around midday), and you should have more shadows on the characters facing us, like a light from the top.
Again, great drawing!
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displayname5650782
Professeur PlusLove this final project! I can see you've worked really hard on it, and the results are brilliant. Im not much of a colourist myself, but you did a great job with that too : )
I've done you a little drawover, which is in my profile project "drawovers from my course", but my main feedback is to avoid perpendicular (90 degree) angles within your composition. The characters and drawing itself is wonderful, and if you stage it just a tiny bit differently it will really come alive.
Take a look if you get a minute! Great job, again!
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Plus@tomfoxdraws Thank you for the feedback and draw-over. It is eye-opening. I'd like to elaborate on it, if I may, because I think it would help people who come from the same background as me. I am a trained painter, who some years ago transitioned to making comics. I've noticed that classical and contemporary figurative painting compositions tend to be less "dynamic" than what we see in comics and illustration. Painting's objective is an everlasting research on aesthetics, on how visual input is rendered, deconstructed and reintroduced, whereas illustration uses primarily drawing, colour, as well as aesthetics, as a means to achieve narration. Informed by photography and cinematography (let us not forget that three point perspective wasn't a concept until after the invention of photography), contemporary illustration has presented as with examples of "edgier" ways of depicting the world and human body. Painters like Robert Williams and Nicola Verlato are a good a example of artist who have incorporated these teachings in their paintings but all in all, artists coming from a Fine Arts background will probably be unfamiliar with the skillful handling of viewing angles to achieve narration, as they have primarily focused their artistic training and research on aesthetics. My point is, if you come from the same background as me and do want to learn, accept you are in unfamiliar territory. Illustration is a language that uses the same alphabet as Fine Arts. Knowing the alphabet doesn't meant you know the language.
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displayname8729706
I would happily read this comic!
I find your work great.
As a casual comic book reader and casual cartoonist, I have no constructive criticism and I hope to continue seeing things like that.
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