@rubbernut
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The left image is my second attempt with the demo and the middle image is my first attempt without the demo.
I'm really here as a beginner, knowledge wise. I never was officially taught these concepts, but picked them up as I grew.
I am currently working part-time, a full-time student, and have other obligations, but I still get down on myself and feel I'm so behind. When I started, there were only two videos in the line section, but now there are plenty and I feel like I'm getting very behind. Are there any tips or motivation anybody can give on this? I feel like this fact chokes me up and stops me from producing more art as I feel pressured.
Sharat Buddhavarapu
1yr
Hi @rubbernut. Just wanted to let you know I am also way behind, and I only did the pear today! I don’t know if this helps, but I have given myself until mid-June, early-July to catch up.
And if there are 2 of us talking about it, you can be sure there are more who suffer silently from this self-judgment. Keep going, one drawing/project at a time!
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I'm going to try a few more times. let me know what you think please
Hi @Kyle Mc Nichols, good on you for doing more than one pear and planning to do even more! Your shading is impressively smooth.
My big suggestion would be to work on capturing the angles at the bottom of the pear. In your first image, it’s almost pointy. In your second, it is a little better, but in the photo, the “feeling” the bottom gives us is a wide, stable, mostly horizontal base.
Hope that’s helpful.
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Hello, I’m new at drawing and would appreciate all the criticisms. Thank you
Hi @dnlwan123, great attempt at the exercise. I feel like your pear is a good version of the pear in the reference. The shapes feel really nice too.
My suggestions for improvement would be to stick to straight lines and to work on cleaning up your shading. By clean up, I mean make the lines so close together that it looks like one smooth tone.
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First attempt without watching demo.
Really great job on sticking to straight lines and creating a simple version of the pear that looks recognizable! Only critique I would offer is to make the lights lighter and less smudgy. Keep at it
1yr
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this is my pear difficult in the shadows I’m so new at drawing but I’m trying
Actually @linayates, I think your shadows are quite good. It is in the lights where it feels like you went too dark. Might need to work on hand pressure? I have a hard time with that too, and I am challenging myself to try at least one drawing with only an HB pencil to really practice controlling the pressure I put on the paper.
Oh and also, remember to stick to straight lines for this assignment. Great attempt for a newbie!
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Hi all, fallen behind in the course, but beginning my work to catch up. I also did a little study with a value scale, which really helped do a good job on the more polished one (hopefully you can tell that's the one with the bluish tint to the photo!).
It took me a good 3 hours to get the shading as even as this, and I'm not sure I did a particularly great job in the lights. On the other hand, I feel like I did well with proportions and the simplification of the pear into straight lines. Love to hear other people's opinions though.
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I started practicing in my smaller sketchbook with a Staedler HB. I tried out a couple of other pencils elsewhere, a Blackwing 602, a Musgrave Tennessee Red, and a Mitsubishi Uni 9000, just because I had them lying around for writing. The Staedler felt superior for drawing.
As for the exercises, I tried a bit of shading and drawing circles.
For the shading, I’ll be honest and say I liked using the tip better than the side with graphite. I’ve used a charcoal pencil before and it would be the opposite for that.
I used a circle template I had lying around to help give myself a point of comparison. Still, amazing how circular my freehand attempts looked until I saw them in camera! The eye can really deceive itself…
3yr
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Hi I just started up yesterday and did some drawings with the examples, the image with the star were all 2 minute sketches, the rest were untimed, I'm really happy with how some of these came out but would like some feedback!
Looking at some of the other assignments and their feedback I think maybe I'm trying to run before I walk by trying to get the shapes this early on, I might try to just focus more on doing more loose stuff to get the gesture better, I'll try doing some 30 second ones since that should force me to simplify a lot more
I'm very much at the start of my art education, but to my eye you straighten the poses a tiny bit, robbing them of their dynamism. And although I don’t think we’re prohibited from using straight lines, I think loose, flowing curves help us to push the gesture more. My lines are a bit shaky and still not dynamic enough, but I hope they help illustrate my critique.
All that aside, big kudos to you for putting in the work! You’ll improve really fast if you keep at it, I’m sure.
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