Elmer Fudd

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Squishy Dog Overlays

I'm really keen to do some different drawings now. Here are my squishy dog overlays.

This first one was pretty accurate to begin with. On the reattempt it seems that I just swapped the inaacuricies I had previously for some different ones.

 On this next one there was a lot to correct from my lesson one pencil drawing. However, my reattempted construction was quite inaccurate in length. I readjusted the main drawing to compensate, as I didn't realize until half way through it (when things started to look quite off). It came out good in the end though.

On this next one, the reattempted construction came out poor again, so I traced out the construction from the original drawing and copied that insted. It made it much easier and helped out my understanding too. I was able to do the final drawing so quickly and accurately once I was confident that the construction was exact (even less doubts than copying from PB's construction) .

I attempted construction in this one first, before doing the tracing construction trick and correcting my errors. I came out pretty good, Teeth, eyes ears and collar (ie bits with no construction basis) seem to be my biggest weakness with these side angles.

Final drawing, whew. I was surprized how accurate the original pencil drawing I did for this was. I did't do a construction trace and copy for the redo this time, but I did use some relative angle and proportion measurements. I'm glad the angle of the teeth was correct (even it they were too low). :)

Pre Squishy Dog

Ok I've done 5 more of these and now I'm up to the squash and stretch page (expect it soon). I'm getting more accurate, but it still takes a long time (like a half hour or hour for an accurate pic). I definately notice myself getting more efficient as I go though.

This first one I used the drawing I did from lesson one to critique and overlay. Man there were tons of inacurracies. However my redo attempt was a lot better. . It's great to see improvement already. :)

The forehead on my first attemp at this was huge. Still a few small inaccuricies the second time, but much better.

I found this fox really tricky to get right. I put a couple of extra lines on the original to judge the form better for my 3rd attempt construction. Maybe I shoulda tried something similar for the left side as it was still a tad big. I can't beleive I didn't notice how big the 2nd attempts nose was until the overlay. The 3rd attempt at this was done after the goat.

 Pretty good :)

I marked my previous two pencil drawings before attempting another one on the cintiq.I did a final correction based on (but not usind) the overlay. I suppose that's worth doing sometimes. It's a lot easier than trying to be accurate from scratch.

Squishy dogs coming soon, and then on to lesson 4.

Lesson 3 Day one

I made an attempt at lesson 3 yesterday. Pretty tricky and slow going. All of yesterday's were drawn on the cintiq starting from scratch. I think I will start with previous drawings today.

For these first two pages I didn't follow procedure exactly (misread). Instead I drew, overlayed made notes and then reattempted from scatch (twice). I also corrected the first image I drew to be more like the original

On this next page I made before and after the overlay. After one retry attempt, I corrected the retry (by sight and the notes I made).