Foreshortening Exercise: Super Sayian Goku

As a means of rekindling my commitment to daily study after several months, if not years, immersed in professional projects, I chose to revisit one of the initial exercises from my days studying illustration back in 2019.

This particular exercise revolved around leveraging a 3D model to explore the concept of forced perspective, commonly referred to as foreshortening. Regrettably, I couldn't trace back the original artist responsible for the model. If by chance you happen to come across this and wish for proper accreditation, please don't hesitate to reach out.

At the time of my initial studies, I harbored a penchant for meticulously replicating references, often to the point of near-obsession with achieving precise resemblance, along with what is colloquially known as the 'hairy line' syndrome.

Today I definitely still carry some of these "technical flaws" with me, but I can mitigate them much more than in the past, so this time this exercise was not only an exercise to study foreshortening, but also to train line control, observation of proportions, and how to exaggerate and improve the flow of action in the image.

Certainly the result is far from anything more refined, also because it's just a sketch that I limited myself to not spending more time than necessary working on it, but it was an interesting exercise to compare myself with years ago and also to make some style experiments.

I believe that comparing yourself, as many artists already say, is the healthiest practice you can have, instead of comparing yourself only with other colleagues in the profession.

The final image is archived under the 'Sketches' tab. Thanks for reading!"