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 Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:51 pm
This is a technique that I always thought was general knowledge, but when I did it in my figure drawing class, no one knew what the hell I was doing. Icouldntbelieveit :C
Do you guys look at your work in a mirror / flip it / rotate it to check for issues in proportion?
I can't imagine life without it @o@
Too often do I see a lovely finished/inked/colored artwork of the human figure that would be FLAWLESS--if only it weren't for one retarded eye thats too high, or other small mistake that could've been easily solved earlier in the process by looking at the piece backwards.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, looking at your work backwards gives you a fresh look at it. It's basically what other people see when they look at it. When you spend so much time seeing the work at different stages, its much harder to spot mistakes that may be obvious to others.
If you've never done this before, this is a public service announcement. Look at everything you make backwards. Everything - human or not. Everything all the time. It even helps to check out the composition. It is the most helpful and useful thing since the eraser. Do it do it do it. XD <3
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:49 pm
I do, but it doesn't keep me from fudging up the alignment. sad
If I make it look right when flipped, often it will look retarded when unflipped, and vice versa. I keep flipping it back and forth till I can't even tell what's wrong anymore.
I'm not so sure if it helps with the composition, though. Never found it to be helpful in that aspect.
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:08 am
I find it helps a bit with my anatomy, but I've never thought about check that composition that way. I'll have to give it a shot.
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:25 pm
I never heard about backwards, but I look at it upside-down.
When I work from reality, I usually have a photo, so it's pretty easy to just flip it upside-down. How exactly do you see it backwards?
And yeah, I agree, I see a lot of pictures that just don't look right when you flip them the other way.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:39 am
@Lucira: you would look at it through a mirror or, if you are doing digital work, you can just flip it horizontally in the work space. Turning it upside down works just as well if you ask me.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:35 pm
F!ZZBANG This is a technique that I always thought was general knowledge, but when I did it in my figure drawing class, no one knew what the hell I was doing. Icouldntbelieveit :C
Do you guys look at your work in a mirror / flip it / rotate it to check for issues in proportion?
I can't imagine life without it @o@
Too often do I see a lovely finished/inked/colored artwork of the human figure that would be FLAWLESS--if only it weren't for one retarded eye thats too high, or other small mistake that could've been easily solved earlier in the process by looking at the piece backwards.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, looking at your work backwards gives you a fresh look at it. It's basically what other people see when they look at it. When you spend so much time seeing the work at different stages, its much harder to spot mistakes that may be obvious to others.
If you've never done this before, this is a public service announcement. Look at everything you make backwards. Everything - human or not. Everything all the time. It even helps to check out the composition. It is the most helpful and useful thing since the eraser. Do it do it do it. XD <3 i've done it before, if i find problems i usually can't fix them tho razz
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:40 pm
I do this all the time with my on paper stuff. But I haven't thought to flip any of my all digital stuff.
It's an automatic response. I turn the paper over and hold it to the light. My mom says I look silly when I do it.
It also lets me know what I have problems with. At the moment I apparently I'm overcompensating and drawing my people tilted just a little to the right.
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:42 pm
I learned of this technique quite recently and it does help me a bit
I'm normally too focused on something and when I can't get a second opinion, I do that now ^^
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:35 pm
I can't necessarily view it through a mirror and get anything out of that, but I have to draw upside down alot or at strange angles like diagonal. I can't lay a paper perfectly straight in front of me and sketch just on that. If I move, it moves. XD
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