Drawabox Lesson 5, Drawing Animals: Constructing an Otter
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- An explanation of how to apply the constructional method described in Drawabox Lesson 5 (drawabox.com/l...) to draw an otter.
Drawabox is a series of free structured drawing lessons that explore the basic mechanics of drawing, along with the fundamental skills of capturing the illusion of solid form and constructing complex objects from their simplest components.
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"I don't want to end up in a situation where my sausage is swelling"
-Uncomfortable, 2018
''I don't Always flush out my toes'' -Uncomfortable.
Don't we all
For me the magic after drawing 250 boxes, and all those pages of many "boring" exercise converge in, that now I see my self being able to construc all of these and I cant belive it THX! I can draw anything now
I am really trying to get into art and you have no idea how much you have helped me with my animal heads and bodies. I can now understand how the portions are because of you ❤️
I'm glad I could help! I'm also hard at work on a full rebuild of the drawabox website and revisions of a lot of the demo content, that'll all be out on December 25th - so look forward to it!
This lesson was great I would even say that I've learned wy more than on your previous demos about animal construction
Incredible video. Would love a similar video for Human construction. Of course, you don't have to go into details about anatomy. Just the construction of the major forms. Thank you :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Unfortunately I long ago decided to focus my attention on topics that I am comfortable enough in to teach, and that aren't covered widely already by other free resources. So you're not going to see any figure drawing material from me for a long time.
@@Uncomfortable what would be one of those free resources?
@@aufspider4136 Proko on CZcams is the main one people use.
@@Uncomfortable thank you love your stuff btw
@@Uncomfortableplease just draw 1 human figure, I find your method easy and want you to show just how you create human figures. Please if possible make only one 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏I will be following and practicing the same for different postures.
14:57 Idk man, seems passable to me.
Hahahaha. SMILEY NUBBY OTTER.
Thank you for the simplification. Do you have head / snout positions for looking up and looking down 3/4 profile?
happy new year !!!
Same to you!
I have a doubt with the legs. In some videos you suggest that we can try to construct them with flat shapes and in other videos you suggest to do it with sausages forms. i know that both methods give an importance to gesture.
Probably the sausages form is the method you suggest at this point, but, in the demos in which you use the sausage method I feel that the sausage form are a bit complex (not just a cylinder with two balls at the). I would like to know if you have a comment on it and an advice to construct the legs.
The issue here is that Drawabox is a course that is continually evolving and improving over time. In doing critiques of thousands of students' homework, I gradually shift towards approaches and explanations that I feel ultimately help students better develop their spatial reasoning skills. The unfortunate part of this is that it results in inconsistencies, *especially* in the video content that cannot be updated quickly or easily. Periodically I'll replace and phase out older videos, but I generally keep those that may be out of date but still have useful information up until I can get around to replacing them.
As of earlier this year, I embarked on a more significant overhaul of the video and text material, but it's taking a lot of time and there are considerable delays in the mean time - my apartment flooding and being forced into temporary housing while it gets repaired for the next month or two is just one of them. But my goal is for the entire course to be brought up to a more consistent level.
As far as the sausage method goes, it is definitely the approach I want to push students to use in just about all situations. That means laying down a chain of simple sausages first, then building up additional masses on top of it to add bulk where it's needed.
@@Uncomfortable
Thank you very much for your answers and for you hard work in all of this project!
reference image: i.pinimg.com/originals/9b/72/d6/9b72d6e185cd24bb5a7231d3f5752fb3.jpg
@intersonality no problem, good luck :)
I have been following your great tutorials - thanks... They have been helping me tons... Unfortunately, IMHO this drawing misses the mark when I compare it to my interpretation of the reference picture... In this drawing it seems to me that the reference picture show the pelvis area is rotated with the rear end quarter facing the viewer while the center of body twisted away from viewer, opposite to the rib cage area which is more side on to the viewer in the reference photo... When drawing your curves over the body to indicate the sausage form 3D nature, your rear curve does not reflect this twist in the body in the reference...the curve seems to imply the rear end facing away from the viewer so confuses me.... The drawing of the tail does not capture the essence of the otter... A long wide flat tail, the end of which is laying flat on the ground more towards the viewer... I just don't get that impression in the drawing, so I don't see the drawing as representing an otter... More like a cat... Just my humble opinion in studying how to draw. In the lessons this far I have not seen much talk about how to measure and capture the proportions of items being drawn.... Is that detailed in the lessons so far that I missed? Apologies if I seem too critical... Just trying to improve my own drawing by carefully studying my reference vs drawn images.
That's very true, good catch! if you find some resource that helps analyze reference better, please share it! thanks
i know it's been years, but imma reply for the future people. uncomfy did say that the purpose of these exercises isn't to completely replicate the reference photo. it's only to use it as a guide for constructing it. so it's okay if the positioning of the body parts / the posture of the subject is different from the reference. the main focus is to create something believably three dimensional and develop your spatial reasoning. even if uncomfy's work is inaccurate to the reference photo, you can still use the techniques he taught to draw the way you interpret the reference/with your own observation, so this video is still good as a learning resource.
as for the capturing of proportions, it's also not really the focus of the exercises but besides just observing/developing observation skills over time, you can also try to compare body parts proportionally like "how many otter heads long is the otter's body". then you can plot some points on paper to guide your construction and make it proportional. cheers!
@@crabbypupper7302 awesome summary
Yey, someone finally drew me! I'm so popular! ^-^ This is amazing! I'm a going to try and follow and learn from this.
Hahaha!
OwO
So nice to have you call ur reference adorable for once uwuwuwuwu
Dude, can you make some tutorial just showing how you do a drawing with tradicional material? How you hold the pen, etc..Please.
I don't really have the hardware just now to record that, but maybe some time in the future. As for how to hold the pen though, I hold it in the standard tripod grip one uses to write. You're probably confused because people talk about different ways to hold a pencil, but those are specific to *that* tool, because a pencil has multiple surfaces one can run against the page to make different kinds of marks. A felt tip pen is totally different from a pencil, and the primary variance in your marks will come from the amount of pressure you use. The tripod grip does a pretty solid job of controlling that.
Thanks :D !!!
for those who want the high-res original image of this otter.
facebook.com/Ngonge.Otter/photos/d41d8cd9/658913104237727/
Thanks!
What's the link for the otter pic?
It's long gone by now. This video's over two years old, so I don't have that image on file anymore.
@@Uncomfortable found it
i.pinimg.com/originals/84/ce/fe/84cefea254da90476b1a80a32c6209dc.jpg
@@KevinJohnsrude Nice!
@@KevinJohnsrude legend!
i am confused between construction and gesture. How do i start ? loose gesture or this construction? all the profeesionals recommend starting with gesture. then how do we construct?
and the end ?!!! :'( the sadows......