Dog of the day by Johannes
Day 35: Continuing trying to understand the workflow of painting. This time I followed a brief tutorial and used an image as reference.
How can I improve my process and what is the next step to improve this dog?
The instruction goes like this:
"When drawing animals, you don’t start with the head like you do when drawing humans. Drawing animals usually follows this order, though size and ratio varies per species:
First, decide on a pose: Is your animal lying down, sitting, or running?
Draw the barrel for the chest first.
Next, draw the circle for the hips.
Next, draw the lines that follow the limbs and the circles for joints connecting them.
Follow the curved line of the spine from neck to tail (when applicable.)
Finally, you draw the skull, which for animals lower than primates probably involves two circles to include a longer snout or nose.
Once you have these basics, you can apply your grid drawing and shading techniques to fill in your animal and (when applicable) its fur."
https://www.skillshare.com/projects/Intro-to-Drawing-and-Illustration/132051
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24 Dec, 2019, 2:07 am
woof
personally with anything i draw, i look at it and break it down into rough shapes and segments.
if it's a living thing, i look online at pics of its skeleton (or if i cant find pics of that exact species' skeleton i look for a relative's skeleton) and ill do a line for the spine first then work in other stuff (leg bones, rough shape for skull, ribs & whatnot if needed for proper proportions)
breaking stuff into segments is like... the body (/body/ body, not limbs. main body. im bad at wording things lol) of any quadruped can be broken into 3 "segments"-- the front half with the shoulders and part of the ribcage, the middle with the other part of the ribs, belly, and back, and the hind end with the hind limbs and tail.
legs can be broken into pieces too-- on animals like any ungulate, canines, felines, etc, the legs can be broken down into rectangle like shapes and do a rectangle for each part of the leg.
then you can repeat the "use rough shapes" thing to draw any body part--
24 Dec, 2019, 2:09 am
--or thing.
of course just try all kinds of approaches and go with whichever one that works best for you personally- what works great for one person might not work great for you, and something that doesnt work well for them might work great for you.
24 Dec, 2019, 2:12 am
#randomnotes
in one of the pics in my tag i did something to show the "broken down into shapes" thing. actually seeing an example of what im trying to get at might be better than a badly worded comment alone lol
i think it's the 2nd newest pic in the tag.