Cerrisian Blog

Since I had some free time and wanted to unwind, I did an upside drawing of Riddick from the Pitch Black series of movies. I like how the hands turned out, but the relative proportion of the head and face is wrong. The glasses are alright, but need some work as well.

I have difficulty drawing long curves that don’t have neighbors that I can go off of. Some possible solutions might be to break up the large curve into multiple smaller ones or “make up” neighboring curves to go off of. The other thing I generally have trouble with is measuring spaces between curves, but I’ve been practicing and focusing on remember those. That may also help with dealing with curves that are alone.

I’ll have to do some more negative space drawings and get better at judging/remembering spaces between curves. I did alright on most of this upside down drawing, but it seems like this is my next major stumbling block.

Just means more negative space drawings for me

One thing I forgot to mention for troubleshooting is you need context and a mental model first. If you don’t have a good idea of what the system is supposed to do, then you can’t trouble shoot it. So, take some time and create a flow chart and diagram of the expected operation, this will give you the correct context to understand how the system works.