>>3739 I'll continue going onwards with KtD once I feel my portrait is at an 'reasonable' level. Till then, I'll just be redoing it. Yeah, I'm slowly but daily going over the Bargue course.

Tits are hard.

>>3744 See, tits are supposed to be soft, there's your problem.

Watercolor is hard

>>3748 Use graded washes, let the water make gradients for you. Wet the area you want to paint first. if there’s a visible bubble of water on the paper, you used too much and need to let it soak in or dry a little, or you will get a flat wash of color with an ugly ring around it. https://youtu.be/R8qhw4EXb08?t=547 Then you can start adding multiple colors to the same wet area and watercolor will show its true powerlevel.

>>3749 I tried starting wet and using gradients a couple times. I know what a wash is and can do one, major problem I have is a wash doesn't appear to be useful if it's not a rectangle. A rectangular wash is easy, how do you do a round wash? How do you do a wash with a hole in the middle?

>>3750 The paint should flow only to places that are wet, unless you have the paper tilted or something. Draw the shape you want the paint to take in water. It might take some reshaping with a clean brush while it's still wet, or maybe multiple layers.

I'm getting there...

>>3753 Keep going with those Bargue Plates. One day years from now you're going to have the privilege to be able to look back on these early drawings and laugh

>>3753 ...also, it goes without saying but strive to relate what you learn doing these drawings from the Bargue course with other subjects you might draw. This is pure observational drawing theory and practice you're being taught with minimal burdensome reading involved.

>>3759 >>3760 I'm trying, I'm really do. It's just hard to do something you've never done before in your life. I've never taken drawing so seriously before in life, until this moment. Also, I'm aiming for slow and steady improvements rather than sharp ones. As you can see from my past drawings, tiny improvements on tiny improvements. I went from monster-like goblin heads to humanoid looking ones to beaten up human faces...

>>3763 Forgot pic.

This ends my plate 1,1.

Keep working, the thread has reached the bump limit so I will have to make a new one soon. I'll keep you posted in case you miss it.

pic rel is my hand following this 4chan guide https://discover.hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn that guide recommends the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain to help get yourself out of symbol drawing mode, and your own hand is one of the first exercises in it i'm not confident in drawing so i'm pleased that it actually looks like a hand, expectations exceeded for sure but obviously it could be improved i did the "copy the upside down Picasso portrait" exercise before i did this. doing that helped a lot in getting me to look at the details of my hand and copy one line at a time.

>>3828 the book suggests using a picture plane as in first pic i do not have and instead just looked at my hand

>>3829 You're already better than me, lol.

>>3829 thought i should try on paper since the book only describes drawing on paper i find it easier to avoid jiggly lines on paper but doing it digitally it's easy to move stuff around and erase if proportions are wrong >>3839 faces are probably harder, and even harderer if realistic. the hand is all small complex segments with few really long lines which makes it easier i think. see 3rd pic for when i tried copying a ps controller line by line. i tried doing it digitally first but gave up and did it on paper, still not very correct.

>I finally decide to post something >The intended thread has reached bump limit Geez I did some figure drawing yesterday for the first time in a while. Getting sorta tired of everything I do just sitting on my drive forever so here's one of them. I changed the face because the reference was in full profile and I kind of hate how that looks when the rest of a pose is in perspective. It's some real uncanny valley shit.

I think I'm starting to get not as shit.

>>3840 this one I copied from a reference picture hence the greater number of lines. it looks really wrinkly though.

>>3840 this one I copied from a reference picture hence the greater number of lines. it looks really wrinkly though.

>>3846 >>3847 jesus christ i'm sorry mods the form was lagging and this shit happened, pls delete

>>3845 onion i took the picture afterwards, drew from the irl onion the shading looks bad but i think the poles look good. also i didn't know how to deal with the random trenches near the bottom of the onionskin.

Fuck.

New thread, sorry for the delay: >>3859

I've still have a long way to go, trying to construct shapes in the form of a human is difficult

shitty loomis heads for the sake of loomis and this platform time to become an active loomis fag