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No. 811 [Reply & Quote]
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1046343/
"Also I finally was able to get my hands on a good program to record video from my screen and I learned how to speed it up in After Effects so that this 1 hour, 45 min sketch video is now only 3 minutes. Unfortunately the part at the end where I toggle my layers on/off plays way too fast since I toggled it in real time and forgot to slow down to compensate for the speeding up later. D'oh. I need to try to do a slower version, or if you can, pause it to study it.
A lot of people seem to question how I make my sketches accurate and they cry foul when they see that it matches the reference material perfectly. The reason why I make accurate sketches is because I use the classic 'grid method' to break my image down into smaller, more manageable chunks. This lets me focus more on spatial relationships of things one at a time rather than my mind trying to fumble with the whole image at once. I used to scoff at this technique in high school when it was taught in my Advanced Placement Studio Art class, however once I began using it, I fell in love. It's taught in college classes out here too and I can see why.
So I went ahead and put together a video that shows me making a detailed sketch of an african wild dog that I photographed at a local zoo. It shows how I make use of the grid method to create an accurate sketch. Accuracy is 100% possible WITHOUT tracing. Using this method, I bet anyone here on FA could get accuracy that would shock them. It's time consuming though, especially for detailed stuff like this, but it gets the job done. I mostly use it for my super realistic works such as wildlife art or my big furry paintings, where I want total accuracy and detail.
I also sketch digitally even for traditional works because it lets me adjust the composition easily without the need of re-sketching. I can scale my subject up or down, flip it to face the other way, crop in, etc without doing a ton of sketches. It saves paper and time and it's a cleaner way for me to sketch."
WHERE WAS THE GRID BEFORE, STAR?
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