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Did another go with otters this time. One page of studies and then an original pose. This has been a very helpful exercise for me learning to take from reference as opposed to being tied to reference. Lots of fun.
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3mo
This is really cool to see. Thanks for sharing. I especially enjoyed your pages of red studies. For the final piece, my critique is that you lost a bit of the flow in the end, which was an emphasis point of the lesson. With the strong, stylized angles in the legs and body, I think the flowing curves of the table become more important. A couple of your sketches included tails with a bit more energy and flow, I'd have loved to see that carried through to the final sketch.
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AJP
Here's mine: a chameleon. I did a quick page of exploration to try to find some shapes, then worked on the main sketch. I've always been very tied to my references, so being asked to change things up a bit was a good challenge for me. It was a playful iterative process. Fun assignment.
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AJP
These were fun warm-ups. On to the next one.
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Ernesto Canas
Tried the skull.
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3mo
I like the feel of your lines, especially in the skull/hat. You lose a bit of that in the more detailed sections of the spine. The first rib, in particular looks a bit less confident than your lines on the top half of the page. This one was hard though, so nice job.
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Scott Diesing
My third attempt at the camel. Include my preliminary straights-only drawing which is an attempt at accuracy.
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3mo
Nice work. It looks like you get a bit bogged down in the details. The thigh of the leg on the far right, for example, could be simplified. The zig-zags are a bit distracting when the rest of your lines flow more fluidly. I think the same applies to the toes, teeth, and hump. The back hump doesn't need to be two curves for the purposes of simplification, or it could be a flowing s-curve instead of a sharp indent.
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AJP
Did all four. I think the shoes were the most challenging of the bunch. With Skelly as a close second.
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AJP
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This is the most fun I've had with a warm up in a while. I'm a fan. I have a feeling these will show up as doodles in my notebooks for quite some time.
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@dogzepic
This is my attempt. I wasn’t sure if I counted as a beginner or intermediate artist, so I tried both levels. What do you all think? Would love some constructive feedback! The date is when I started, so you’ll notice it took me a few days to finish. Mostly because of the portrait, I think I finished the pear on the first day.
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4mo
Sounds like you put in a lot of effort, so well done, there. I'm of the opinion that you can't go wrong trying harder things, so I'd keep up doing both versions. The more effort you put in the more you'll continue to improve. What I see as the main issue is proportion. Focus on measuring relative distances and sizes to try to get it as accurate as possible before going in for the shading.
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@luciscaelo
heyo! here's some of my few attempts at sketching a pear limiting to 5 values is really challenging haha, I think I went too dark on both the shadows and the pear, I think I could've gone slightly darker on my half-tone. I couldn't get my head around at shading the dent part (bottom of the pear) I pictured it like it shared similar shape as the darker shadow just under it. but let me know if you guys have any constructive feedback or advice! :D
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4mo
I really like your simplified shapes. The thing I can see as a critique is that your light tones are a bit dark. You could maybe separate them a bit more from the darks. Still, well done.
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Hannah Whitehead
this was my first attempt! I struggled with translating the shadow shapes.
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4mo
Nice job. Looks like you have clear value separation. From a critique perspective, the two things I notice are your use of curves over straight lines and that your lighter shadow value and darker midtone value are a bit too similar. I think if you lightened both of your light values, it would enhance the distinction.
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AJP
The first two are my first attempts. The second two are follow-alongs with the demos. The main thing I realized is how much I can push the dark values. My originals were significantly lighter.
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AJP
Hi all. Here's my follow along with the demo. I enjoyed the course overall and found the long form demo at the end really helped tie things together. It also really helped demystify the rendering process. I do a lot of sketching in my free time but rarely spend the time to do detailed rendering. I'm open to critique/comments if you have them. It's encouraging to see other people learning so I figured I'd share to keep up the course momentum a bit. If you're here and haven't done a follow along yet. Let me encourage you to do so. It's a lot of fun.
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2yr
Decided to follow up by trying to do another study off of a different reference photo. This is one from a Grafit reference photo pack.
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