[Warner Cheng]

Don’t stress out yourself too much, take them easy

First

Try to get used to proportional measurement, in relation to the proportion, like if an eye length, size as unit is suitable for you to measure other things, then use it

Also observe the negative space, let’s imagine you have a circle, and you use negative space (as if using vertical and horizontal line to build up a box, and cage the circle,
you will see four triangle-liked shapes appear in the corner, that’s how you utilise negative space

of course that’s just a tiny bit usage for negative space)

And the other thing is comparative measurement, let’s say(i.e.) when you observe the hand length, it might be very similar to leg’s length, then you can use it to approximate  the length of other bodyparts.)

Hope the above make sense

I spent lots of time and it’s just a matter of time to get used to measuring

it’s not limited to actual person in life, when you look at the paper image, it’s also similar method to observe and measure.

[Warner Cheng]

Okay, so the shape of the eye can vary depending on person to person.

So using reference as much as you can, observe how eyes shapes can vary from person to race

And for the eyeball, it is just a ball but the cornea part is a bit forward.

When you draw it, remember it’s a ball

and you can see through them even above the skin, that’s how you get the eyes to locate properly, to avoid ”eye direction disease” while drawing eyes.

[Warner Cheng]

I really like this portrait here

[Warner Cheng]

When you open the anatomy book,

they introduce the reason why anatomy is a thing for every artist when they reach certain stage.

 

The relationship between the infrastructure beneath the skin, they are the bases of how we’re looked from outside.

the bone to the flesh, the flesh to the fats, the fats to the skin

 

That’s the relationship and we would like to have a grasp on their form and shape, so we can make ourselves make less errors when drawing or painting.

 

Like the tear duct thing, they are inside the eye socket near the nose bone and, are the reason why our eye distance are that close generally

even some people have smaller eyes, that’s rarely our concern, they’re still in the socket

 

anatomy is a thing not only the muscle’s important, the skeletal landmarks are critical and help a lot when drawing human form (form is 3d on paper or on screen)

last tip : try to realise the *keystone* on the nose (where’s between forehead and the top of nose bone)

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[Warner Cheng]

Just remember that the form of the drapery is heavily affected by both gravity and the material itself,
in  some case the drapery can be pulled by force, like drawing a dude with long cloth and he rose his arm

which is one kind of force

like the cloth we hang near  the window, and the cloth we used to wear,

they are different in nature

and drapery has different materials lead to different result such as how much and how hard that material is

So observation is unimaginably important

even when creating imaginary drapery, we still need to make sense of that cloth, that jacket that shirt that skirt etc

get reference when creating is important even when it’s not a study

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