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Brandon
Brandon
Hong Kong
Try to be a comic artist
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Brandon
Um sorry for the long passage, but I am struggling, lol I am attempting to go with the flow for the value thumbnail, coz I am still not sure which value in the painting = which value in the black and white scale. At first I did the edgar payne's one, I think I am doing it without much thought to it, simply copying every shape in the pic... Later I tried Zorn's painting, coz I am more familiar with drawing people, so I felt great with the flow when doing it. The last one is Richard schmid's one, Just tried to see if any improvement after seeing some of your submission. But nah, drawing nature scene seems too random, and did I block the flow in the painting that guide viewers' eyes? I am also amazed by the shape design in the painting (nature scenes), but not sure how to do that? I have to say, doing value block in is funnnnn, even though it s difficult so far. Heading on to watch the demo next.
@rupertdddd
Played around with bringing shapes forwards and pushing them back and then added some water for the final one...
Brandon
4d
same shape but different design for the illusion, really interesting to look at
Negla Haykal
This isometric optical illusion assignment was actually pretty fun, even though it took a lot of focus and really made my brain work!
Brandon
4d
yup, i guess the whole illusion thing is first u need to got fooled, then u can fool others. I also keep getting fooled while doing it, lol
Brandon
ok I almost forgot to submit my work. Spend quite some time to understand the isometric illusion. The more rough ones are sketch stage 1, the digital ones re sketch stage 2. the 1 st pic is my study, the 3rd pic is something I try to play with., Quite honest I feel like the canvas is my playground in this project. It s easy to understand but hard to apply, thankfully I made it through.
Marshall Vandruff
Thank you for showing your stages!
Shayan Shahbazi
Nice work 🔥
Amu Noor
Lvl 2 project with demo. Any feedback appreciated!
Brandon
16d
not much to say, your line quality and shapes have their own charm, glad that u re keep improving, same comment for your yesterday post, keep it up
Brandon
Thx for the advice Stan, The graphite one is definitely something that I am proud of, although the 0 and 1 could be done better. The airbrush one is not a trick or what, I just use it like a pencil, use the pure black (value 0) and use pressure to adjust the value, things got me confused is that it s hard to make the value consistent... Anyone have the experience on using that?
Brandon
Asked for help
The project is harder than I expected, keep going back and forth to adjust the value for graphite. Used HB and 7B to do it, the dark side of the scale is really difficult, I got confused about 0 (darkest) and 1. Tried some new tools coz I think I am going to use them in the future. A fine liner and procreate. How do you present a value 0-10 when ink is pure black...? Also tried airbrush in Procreate, I knew there were other ways to do value assignments digitally, but I really wanted to figure out the airbrush mechanism. Does anyone have experience using it? It just kept creating this stain-like effect... By the way, I love the new update on proko web
Michael Mana
This looks really cool, and before I say anything I want to mention I'm far earlier into the Drawing Basics course then you are, so my opinion may be less valuable. I really like the line weight for most of the drawing, and how the brush obviously has hierarchy over everything else, but to me the sheer difference in heaviness between the brush and the foot make them look disconnected. So I would try to add some sort of flow and ease into the heaviness in the brush's line weight. Of course line weight is subjective so if you think it looks better that way then that's also fine!
Brandon
30d
I read your comment 2 days ago already, and keep thinking about it. The line weight of the brush could do it in a more subtle way. It might be my tendency to be so straight forward for line weight, idk. I will try to figure something out. Thanks a lot. Let s learn together in the basic course.
Steve Lenze
Hey Brandon, I like the concept of your drawing, very surreal. What I noticed is that the torso is too short and the head is too big. Also, you need to have more foreshortening in the limbs, especially the legs. I did a sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
Brandon
30d
initially when i was drawing, I was thinking about what if I lose my arms like kids in the Israel, and still want to draw so desperately. And now I can see some of the perspective errors that you point out, Thank you very much.
Brandon
Brandon
1mo
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Personal Drawing Critique
Hello everyone, I am a student taking the Drawing Basic course. Now we are moving on to the value section. Just before all those complicated things are taught, I once again try to come up with a character and apply all the things I have learned so far. I also watched some anatomy videos b4 this drawing Could you please critique based on 1. interesting? 2. Anatomy? 3. Perspective? 4. Others, like proportion? Coz figure is complicated, and I want others pt, of views. Thank you very much
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