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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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Marshall Vandruff and Stan Prokopenko critique students' drawings based on the Robo Bean video
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Marshall's website - http://www.marshallart.com
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Critiques Robo Bean.mp4
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Critiques of student's Robo Bean drawings.
Wow, I came into this video with so many questions and nearly all of them got addressed over these critiques. I did a few more poses to convince myself I actually understood their feedback and the difference feels like night and day. I am much more confident about the process now, and even though I'm still struggling with some aspects of twisting and foreshortening, I feel like I can actually tackle the problems now and break down even complex poses reasonably well. Marshall really is an incredible communicator and educator.
Here are my attenps at the robo-bean. The first few pages I was following along with the demonstrations and the rest were done after. Any feedback is appreciated.
Marshall suggested to that one guy to do 300 robobeans. I think that is what I need also, I never drill enough. here is my first 100, I'm trying to do 20-30 a day, (100 every 4). I hope these first 100 are enough to expose my bad habits. Feedback is very welcome!
I've finished the next 100. I think I'm getting better at the proportions of the pelvis and ribs, andI'm trying to select pose sets that have more twists and difficult angles. Again, feedback is welcome. I want to get as much as I can out of this exercise.
Do we have to curve the edges of the robo bean? Feel like it adds a lot of extra work.
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Nice studying! I like the twists and consistency in your forms. Just watch out for the proportions you are using to indicate the ribcage. About the top half of the current bendable area would actually be part of the ribs instead.
Went a little farther than just two boxes, but I was having fun. I can see a difference in my drawing skills. Please if you have any feedback let me know!
Today's boxes. Been doing about a page of these a day for a couple days now, gonna keep at it until I feel more comfortable with proportions and perspective and then move on to mannequinization 👍
I've been practicing for a while, but I still struggle with accuracy. I find it quite challenging drawing the right proportions from the beginning, I erase a lot until I reach a finished drawing. Anyway, I hope I am on the way !
I went at this again with a different thought process after watching the critiques here. Started paying less attention to detail attempting to pay more attention to the overall shape and structure of the boxes. This feels alot better then before! I just want to toss these out there, if any of you have any critiques for this that you may see feel free to help me out. Let's all keep striving to improve!
Every time you start again, you should feel more confidence. You have inspired me to start again at the bean and robobean. I've been doing several faces, upper-torso studies. I feel pretty good about them and will post soon. On a side note, pay close attention to what Proko says about the proportions of the rib cage and pelvis. That will help you in this current exercise.
Here is robo-bean submission. This was the most fun assignment till now and I'm awaiting feedback
Would appreciate some feedbacks! The hardest thing for me is to gauge the surface/tilts of the boxes and to render them a box (my eyes keep telling me that it was a not a box and there were many smaller cuts of surfaces I needed to add)
Here are some of my robo-beans. Any comments or critique are welcome. References are posted, but unfortunately reference #6 got lost, sorry about that. :(
I think you did a good effort to capture the gesture. Just wondering, are you new to persective? It looks like some of your boxes are not in perspective. It doesnt have to be perfect, but if its off too much it gets noticeable. Good lucky with your studies!
Here's my attempt on the Robo Bean. I'm not sure if I got any of these right. It's definitely the most challenging exercise I've done so far. I've watched and followed along Proko's videos.
Hey there! Great work on these, I think your second attempt especially on pose 3 looks really good. One thing I would suggest for your second attempt on pose 4 is to make the upper box longer. It seems shortened compared to the pose where it is stretched out.
I redid poses 1, 3 and 4 after watching the Robo Bean critique video. Hopefully they came out better than my previous attempt.
Hi Bre, While I was watching the critique I did some draw overs with your same images. I liked the images you used so I figured I would try them myself. I'm not sure if my solutions are correct but I'll put it here to see if it helps you. Let me know. :)
I practice quite a bit but main issues for me is hard to observe the RIGHT angle, I drew first and pause without seeing Proko's demo, then really frustrated that cannot see the correct tilting/ rotation... still trying to figure out where I see the object wrong...Anyone have good advice on that please share with me...no improvement is beating me carrying on..
I so admire how clean your lines are and how you've given us photo references.
Page 1, upper right one where you compare yours with Proko's... I think the main difference is that Stan is using the rib-cage for the box; where are you are describing the whole torso with yours. So if you look at his rib-cage it is a lot more vertical than the one you "x"ed.
One way I am very rigorous with myself is that I overlay my version on top of the original. This is very easy if you are drawing digitally (with layers + some transparency); but you could also use tracing paper. That way I can see immediately where I am off, and by how much. Since Stan sometimes exaggerates his angles, so when I overlay his on the original it also allows me to see how much he has exaggerated by; and thus I have an objective basis to gauge angles and measurements.
