Making some visual aids for a presentation on Figure Drawing that I’m doing on Sunday. I’m nervous!
The trick is to know how to identify a worthwhile critique from one that is not.
Taken from lexxerduglas:
“A good critique is constructive. It points out things you have done successfully alongside your shortcomings, and offers advice and direction as to how these shortcomings can be improved upon. Ideally, they should come off as neutral in tone, as critique should be an objective process.
Pointing out a bunch of things that are wrong within a piece without any meaningful suggestions is just criticism, not critique.
Expressing like or dislike for a piece, or using overtly subjective qualifiers (like “good” and “bad”) isn’t even criticism, it’s opinion.
Regardless of whether or not you have received good or bad critique or criticism, whether or not you apply it to your work is entirely up to you.”
USEFULLLLLLL!!Enough of you seemed interested, or at least curious!, about this, so I gave it a shot! It is rather short and condenses lots of information, but I think it manages to get its points across, especially if someone is a beginner and needs to learn the very bare (no pun intended - well, maybe a little) basics.
Like I said, someday maybe I will do a more detailed version with more on clothes and how it can affect shape, but that would also require me to conquer my fear of tutorials for a second time. WE’LL SEE.
ALSO. It wouldn’t be a proper tutorial on anatomical structure, if I didn’t put a disclaimer down here and say that there is never a good substitute for life drawing or real study of the human body if you want to learn the correct way something works. Even the examples shown here are stylized, so ENJOY but bear this warning in mind!
This was super helpful for me. (clicky clicky!)
