/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4862530
This kind of stuff is all that feeling the form is. It's just not flattening out your shit and making sure you're drawing with volumes in mind instead of flat shapes.

>>4622444
If you're a traditional artist? You don't want to mix graphite with anything else, so if you're doing color you're just going to do it all in color. Colored pencils are probably going to be your best bet there. But when you're using them make sure you don't press down hard and ruin the tooth of the paper, yeah? Build them up slowly and make sure you're going in the direction of the form, since you're using a line tool like a pencil you're always going to see the grain of the paper through the small lines you put down to make a tone.

Pic related. It's from JD Hillberry's Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil, if you're having issues with techniques I'd recommend reading it.

>>4490295
This illustrates it better.

>>4261198
Also going to add this to your advice, the other part of suggesting form is drawing along with them instead of flattening them out

>>3947957
I get what you mean dude I don't know why they never understand it.

>>3947964
Basically, instead of just drawing in a bunch of flat lines over a cylinder, you would want to draw in your lines/values as cylinder-shaped, in perspective with the cylinder. It's like you're imagining you are literally just putting a pencil on top of an actual cylinder and coloring it in. Does that make sense?

If you've ever been confused by someone saying "imagine you're tracing over the form / feel the forms in your drawing" cause yours is too flat this is what they mean

>>3613199

>>3439602
Well, straight lines may be easier and faster but you need to convey form somehow. Drawing a 3D object with flat lines will make it flat.

Remember that a change in tone is a change in planes on a 3d object.

Straight lines may be your comfort zone but if you want to get anywhere you need to break out of that.