Sketch-a-day, something from the sketchbook each day! Options

[MBW17]

Ok guys, I want to start my own sketch-a-day thread, most of the sketches I will post will be rough stuff from my sketchbook,(prob all vehicles) love to get your feedback!

start today off with a truck sketch with attachable back

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[halocooter]

ehhh. nothin to great about this sketch.

[engio]

ehhh. nothin to great about this sketch.

I disagree. It looks like it was done very fast and explains the idea. If there's nothing more you want to say with the sketch than that a compartment goes on top of an offroad vehicle and want people to discuss that idea further, then the sketch is great. If anything, I'd say it's too polished.

[sketchyd]

Good start, keep it up.

I have a suggestion for your sketch. Right now your car doesnt look like a real car. What I mean by that is, the car has no wall thickness or any method of the back panel attaching to the car. Because of this, the car feels and looks more like a thin plastic container in the shape of a car. Try adding some realistic elements and details to communicate your design.

[Grant Howarth]

I agree with Sketchy that some wall thickness would add a lot to the sketch, also a larger variance in lineweight would help focus the image more on the function you're communicating... and Halocooter why bother answering if you have nothing constructive to say?

[MBW17]

ahh wow this is great! I love to get back some good criticism! And yes, I totally agree with you Jae on the realistic-ness I need to add, well today I just have two simple pages from my sketchbook, just very quick and expressive sketches trying to find something I like for the upcoming Local Motors competition, and I didn't have any other time to do anything better, so maybe tom I can get something up of better quality!

but thanks guys, and continue commenting! i love it!

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[sketchyd]

Its good that you are sketching regularly. But just a word of advice. I know you "listen" to everyones feedback and practice ALOT. But a great way to really show and communicate that you are actually listening and taking people's feedback is to sketch something they commented on. This way people want to continue to give you advice and tips, because they know you are actually listening to them and not just saying ok and then doing something completely different.

Imagine a conversation/ situation: I can go up to my instructor and show him a sketch and tell him to give me some advice. So he gives me advices as to what I can do to improve this sketch. I say thanks and I tell him ok Im gonna go practice, Ill be back in an hour. I come back and I show him a completely different sketch with none of the things he commented on. Hed probably be thinking that one, I didnt listen to him. Two, I am just using him to get ONLY the answers i need, and third he probably wouldnt want to comment on my sketch again because his feedback wasnt put into practice.

On that note, your newest sketch, youve acknowledged that you need to add realisticness, but your sketches don't show that.

[MBW17]

Its good that you are sketching regularly. But just a word of advice. I know you "listen" to everyones feedback and practice ALOT. But a great way to really show and communicate that you are actually listening and taking people's feedback is to sketch something they commented on. This way people want to continue to give you advice and tips, because they know you are actually listening to them and not just saying ok and then doing something completely different.

Imagine a conversation/ situation: I can go up to my instructor and show him a sketch and tell him to give me some advice. So he gives me advices as to what I can do to improve this sketch. I say thanks and I tell him ok Im gonna go practice, Ill be back in an hour. I come back and I show him a completely different sketch with none of the things he commented on. Hed probably be thinking that one, I didnt listen to him. Two, I am just using him to get ONLY the answers i need, and third he probably wouldnt want to comment on my sketch again because his feedback wasnt put into practice.

On that note, your newest sketch, youve acknowledged that you need to add realisticness, but your sketches don't show that.

yes sir I totally agree, the thing is that these sketches were from yesterday, I didn't have time to do anything new, so I posted them anyways thats why they still look un realistic

[sketchyd]

Yea i figured that, and dont worry man im not trying to pick on you or put you on blast. I myself am guilty of doing the same. But its something that I highly recommend you to work on. Being a good listener is key.

[advancedboy]

you need to set a bar, a standard for yourself, and never go beneath that. By practising, raise the bar higher. If the standard is not matched, don`t post it. This will discipline you. Concentrate on one sketch, and cut out the ugly, line by line. This will give you a taste what the bar actually stands for. Good luck!

[Taro]

It sort of looks like you are stuck somewhere between a very precise/clean sketching style, and a more free (trans-like) style.

Either way give out some sort of emotion, yours doesn't atm.

Also, the background is there for a reason, so if it doesn't need to be there, don't put it on, it might ruin/distract the original sketch. And if you decide that you need to put on a background, put up one that shows it wasn't randomly drawn.

And start sketching the whole frame of the car, right now, you are just sketching what you can see from that angle, which is not good when you are working on fundamentals.

[MBW17]

Yea i figured that, and dont worry man im not trying to pick on you or put you on blast. I myself am guilty of doing the same. But its something that I highly recommend you to work on. Being a good listener is key.

ah I gotcha, thanks man and will do!

It sort of looks like you are stuck somewhere between a very precise/clean sketching style, and a more free (trans-like) style.

Either way give out some sort of emotion, yours doesn't atm.

Also, the background is there for a reason, so if it doesn't need to be there, don't put it on, it might ruin/distract the original sketch. And if you decide that you need to put on a background, put up one that shows it wasn't randomly drawn.

And start sketching the whole frame of the car, right now, you are just sketching what you can see from that angle, which is not good when you are working on fundamentals.

yes sir, I'll try to work on that^


well no time to sketch today! so sorry, try to have something up tom!

[MBW17]

todays sketch- ford suv/crossover, trying to make it more realistic and I drew through the drawing more(dont know if you can tell)

well let me know what you think!!

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[Taro]

haha, it looks like it is almost going to fall off a cliff.

And this may not be necessary, but will help you alot right now is... take a step back, or maybe a couple steps back.

Start sketching the cars in simpler forms, and see if you can actually sketch a box, a good one. If you can't do that, then drawing cars will give you a very minimal improvment.

When the car is in a box form, you can find the middle line much easier, and you will know exactly what the car looks like on the opposite side. Therefore, you know exactly where each lines should go. I mean, your front looks cut off right now in your latest sketch.

You obviously knows more about porprotion of cars than I do, so I believe you can do it.

[MBW17]

yeah I agree with you about it looking like its about to fall off a cliff, haa

well this is just a quick one, not much time with school and baseball...
tried to make it more with fundamentals any ideas?

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