
Eros Berner
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Tried to do the assignment, the one with the white background is hierarchy by importance, the grey one by light. Thanks for critiquing .-)

Benjamin Green
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Looks darned good to me!
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I have emphasized some parts of the drawing.
6mo
Very nice. One slight critique is that the rear of the Rhino is further away than the head. Because of atmospheric perspective, you want the opposite line weight. Thicker with objects that are closer to camera and lighter for objects further away.
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Hi, everybody! So, I drew some beans after watching the videos and practicing. Would somebody please give me a little feedback on how I'm doing? I'm particularly wondering if I'm tilting the whole bean enough (am I just putting one ball on top of the other?), and if I'm just drawing the same bean over and over with only slight variations (I watched the bean critique video, and Stan gave this feedback to an artist named Margo. Since watching it, I've been suspicious that I'm doing the same thing.)
Thank you for taking a look! Best wishes to everyone who's moving on in the figure course!
Sincerely,
Grace
edit: for a few of the poses, I drew the bean from the same pose twice because I felt like there was something I could have done differently after finishing the first time. All of these took about a minute.
6mo
I think these look pretty good. Here's some advice I have for you. It's not that you want to picture two stacking balls, but you're using this exercise to improve your gesture drawing and observation. I think how you approach each figure is situational. In some cases, it may help to draw in the line of action to capture the whole movement from the get go. In others, you draw the ball, then you will draw the connecting contour line and wrap it back into itself to really show that pinch. It is situational in the way you see it. Also, most of the time you'll want to avoid the snowman effect, which is having the overlap show on both sides. In some drawings it is completely appropriate (I see one in particular you've posted here). Really pay attention to the centerline of the figure to try to interpret which way the masses are bending and twisting. Hope that helps.
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2023/3/30. Good afternoon everybody. Here's my latest illustration. There are a lot of mistakes in the perspective but I feel like I'm getting more and more familiar with "mecha" illustrations anytime I try to draw one. Thanks for your comment.
You can watch the timelapse video on my Youtube channel clicking the link below or scanning the QR code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL4xkb0ZoKI&t=2s
6mo
I feel like you keep improving when I see your work. There doesn't appear to be any obvious perspective issues as far as I can tell. It looks pretty darn good. As for painting, you have good values, core shadow, primary, secondary, and fill light setup going well. I think the only thing missing is atmosphere which is pretty much the next level in digital painting. Putting up effective backgrounds, using compositional elements, and using colored/bounced light, elements such as warm/cool colors, aka color contrast (which I do see some of it in this work), atmospheric perspective would make it more complete. Also could use some texture such as scratches on the metal. Some material studies I'm sure would help a lot. I am not at that level myself, but it's something I've sort of mapped out in my learning and doing texturing in 3D also helps me understand some of these concepts.
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My first attempt, i tried to simplify them, but i think i overcomplicated the dog one. Need some feedback on this..
6mo
Looks like your working digitally so you could do this using layers. If you didn't you can still use a kneaded eraser. But first, try getting the gesture down. Then drop the opacity or erase lightly so you can barely see the gesture drawing. Then add your shapes on top. I personally like to throw some perspective lines on the ground plane to help me see the space my subject lives in better. Then draw your shapes on top of it. Start with the 3 biggest masses. Egg shape for ribcage, egg shape for pelvis and egg shape for head. Then fill in some cylinders for the legs. After the primary shapes, then work on the 2ndary forms. Simple to complex. Draw through, and don't be afraid to erase and clean up lines as you work. A dog is a difficult subject because everyone is familiar with how a dog looks and there's fur and other things that could make it hard to draw (although this one isn't bad). People will pick out problems very quickly with every day subjects. Try animals with no fur and have as basic structure as possible to begin with, like a hippo, rhino, reptiles, etc. Hope that helps.
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More bean exercise.
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This is my first attempt after just watching the first video. A lot of people seem to be doing really nice looking figures first try while mine look childish and shaky. Any advice on how to improve these? Thank you.
6mo
It takes courage to put up work, especially as a beginner. You're doing fine and will continue to improve with practice. Good job!
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first go, alot more studies to go
6mo
This kind of reminds me of some Dave Finch or Jim Lee where they describe roughing in muscles like little footballs.
6mo
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here is my Twist Assigment! I usually draw along with Stan using the video above.
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2023/3/29. Good morning everybody. Here's my latest assignment from Patrick Jones e-book "The Anatomy of Style". Thanks.
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Some bean practice. About 1/2 way through the examples. I first did this exercise when Proko put these on Youtube some 9 years ago or so. I didn't think I would have any trouble, but it showed me that I don't exaggerate poses enough. Linework is getting better since I switched to digital only. Anyways, critiques always welcome.
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25/3/2023
Also, here are the drawings from imagination, I couldn’t find too many mistakes beside from not making the lines parallel enough.
say next time I’ll look up references for Squares/Cylinders in different perspectives.
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By parallel, you mean that the lines recede to the same vanishing point in the distance along the horizon right? That's the basis for perspective drawing. For the cubes, try making one of the front sides thinner than the other, unless you're looking at it from a 45 degree angle. Hope that helps and keep it up!
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It took a while, but I learned so much! In some I didn't have the space to extend to four figures, and, since I don't know a lot of anatomy I kept the robotic exaggeration versions as the third pose. I am getting more confident with mannequinization each day, and this course is perfect preparation for a deep-dive into anatomy. I go out of my way to minimize use of the digital eraser as well as ctrl+z, since I come from traditional and want to replicate that experience as much as possible. In some, I feel like I took too much liberty in the exaggeration so it became another pose entirely. And the hardest for me is re-orienting the upper limbs. I hope this will become easier after the anatomy course.
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2023/3/25. Good morning everybody. I've just finished the outlines of my latest illustration. If you have any advice for making it better, please let me know! I'm starting the coloring tomorrow and I think it will be ready for the next week.
You can click the link below or scan the QR to watch the timelapse (sorry is very fast - I had to compress 21 hours in a minute).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15pkX3wRyE
Thanks.
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More Hands from Imagination. All critiques are welcome!
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I'm so missing about that cylindrical bump
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That looks like the other head of the sternocleido-mastoid muscle. In this model it's very prominent, but it should connect about 1/3 of the way from the center of the sternum along the clavicle. When the model's neck is stretched out like that, it creates that deep depression you don't normally see. When relaxed, it makes a more flat triangular shape that is typically indicated in drawings or sculpture.
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Hello everyone. I drew some cylinders, boxes and animals. The animals were very difficult for me to draw, because it was hard for me to see them as simple forms.
Advice and critiques are welcomed.
References are from line-of-action.com
6mo
You're on the right path. Keep practicing with boxes, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres, etc. Rotate them in space, make compositions with them, carve into them, and really master that exercise. It might be helpful to realize that most perspective vanishing points are off the page. You can move them closer together if you want more exaggerated or extreme fish eye lens effect, but that's kind of advanced. When starting out these distortions should be avoided. If you have a hard time visualizing off the page vanishing points, it may be helpful to draw a thumbnail sized image of your subject with vanishing points on the page and then draw a frame around it. Next, observe the angle of your lines and enlarge the image. With software you can zoom in, but otherwise you just have to do this mentally. These exercises are tedious at first, but once you develop the eye hand coordination for this, it will become second nature.
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Hi everyone! Here are 30 sec, 1 min, and 2 min drawings for this assignment! I'm struggling a bit with making my lines cleaner and would be happy to have any advice on that, as well as any feedback on my assignment in general! Thanks
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6mo
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Hm... I don't think I got the gist of this exercise yet. I need to focus on even simpler forms.
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Oblique assignment
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