Robert
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I rushed this one. Proportions looked off to me. I should have spend more time on doing solid landmarks
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Here's my first attempt at the simplified pear.
Being consistent with the values was far more challenging than I expected! I also found it hard to get sharp edges with the overhand grip.
Robert
8d
For shading I personally would use the tripod grip. But nevertheless good job. I would use the overhand grip for drawing lines
9d
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Now going to try the portrait afterwards. Pepper felt way harder than the pear
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Now I am done with all pears. Watched the instructional after the first pear. Still struggling with clean values but other than that I am content. Let me know if there is something to improve upon
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I fixed the pear a little bit and some improvements on the portrait (compared to the previous one). Maybe needs a bit more work but I dont know in what part.
16d
Take your time with shading. Try to put in clean values. Same tone. Take your time with the lay in. Be picky with the proportions. Watch Stan's Demo and go from there. He mentions some useful bits of information
16d
I had a second attempt (on left) at drawing my banana after watching Stan's demo. I've included the one I did before watching the demo for comparison. I feel my second attempt is a lot better, but I still need to work on achieving cleaner lines as well as smoother rendering for the values. All critique welcome!
16d
Second one loos very crisp. Clera edges, clean tone. personally I would have made the highlight even smaller in your second attempt
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I quit drawing after 6 months. Now I am back on track. I used the background value to create more contrast. Be as harsh as possible with your critique. Does anyone know how to get a clean tone out with your pencil. I shade and sometimes the end of the stroke is darker than the start of it but to me the pressure feels identical
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First attempt at the pear! Had some trouble identifying the planes but this was a fun exercise :) feedback would be awesome
17d
the shadow shapes look good but the pear itself is lacking structure in my opinion. there is a random dark line on the left side. Pick 5 values and stick to them. You can go over the values multiple times but make sure that the tone of each value is clean. What helps me is squinting. Squint while looking at the pear and you can roughly identify the values
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Fruits attempt! I'm so happy to start this course that I've waited a long time to purchase! Don't hesitate to give me some feedbacks :)
Going to do the portrait, see you!
17d
Looks decent. I would try to make the tone on the banana cleaner. I see white spots in every value. just go over it a second time and you should be fine
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6mo
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Tried a lot of overhand grip for this one and I am not really used to it. So forgive my poor line quality. Really not happy with how my shapes turned out on most of the portraits turned out. Unfortunately I could not include all reference files due to incompatible file formats
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I've tried to find some references with lines that i could replicate.
For this assignments i chosed artwork from Frank Frazetta, Claire Wendling and Kim Jung-Gi
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So this is a portrait of Ellie from the Last of us 2 by Iliya Kuvshinov. I was long fascinated by his style so I thought this was a nice opportunity to take a closer look. I thought it was a good idea to trace the proportions and placement of the elements by putting a paper against my screen since I wanted to focus on the linework, which I did and it worked out alright. However, I feel like I focused too much on just 1:1 copying their line weight bit by bit after that rather than seeing a logic. Sure, where the light hits there are hardly any lines (the picture mainly uses differences in value rather than lines in these areas), where there is shadow there are more visible lines. A ton of lost lines in the light areas and in the hair too.
Other than that, there is more black around the eyes (where the attention is supposed to go I guess). What is interesting is, that the rest of the face and pretty much the rest of the picture hardly has any prominent lines. There are a few but mostly in the shadow on the left side or towards the the shirt, away from the actual subject. I assume he inverted the logic and put some heavier strokes in less important areas so that the face where the light hits has hardly any heavy lines (except for the eyes) which then creates a lot of contrast around the eyes to draw the viewers focus there. Does that sound about right?
I will probably do another few though since tracing the proportions from the original image felt a bit like cheating and I may have focused less on the actual studying part as a result.
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7mo
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More Kley study (this is my 3rd day). Frst I roughly sketched with 2H pencil, then inked with Micron 0.3 & 0.5. Can't get the same feel of the pen strokes as his.
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7mo
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Frog: I messed up the proportions so I had to try to fix it (Artist: Eliza Ivanova) -> Pencil
Two Characters (Artist: xray.alpha.charlie) -> Digital
Manga Panel: (Aritst:Gege Akutami) -> Pen
Digital felt the easiest to do. I really enjoyed the manga panel. Creating line weight with the pencil was really challenging. If anyone has any tips on that, I would appreciate it. Really fun project
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7mo
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Did this one digitally. Original art: cyarine. I only stuck to varying the thickness of the lines. Was very restricting but i kinda like it this way
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8mo
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I did this whole thin digitally. used a graphic tablet and felt really awkward. If you have any advice on tablet usage I'd appreciate it. I like how the hierarchy rhino turned out. Not so much the light and shadow rhino. Would appreciate feedback <3
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8mo
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Level 1: Hierarchy, Light & Shadow from Photo Reference
Level 2: Light & Shadow from free angle, free subject with depth approach.
I tried to apply the different approaches it on a little "Proko Comic". I hope you enjoy.
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8mo
The flower looks really beatiful. The thick lines on the rhino look kinda messy. This might just be my view
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8mo
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I haven't really ever practiced line weight but here is my attempt of shadow/light and hierarchy of importance. This was challenging for me but good practice.
8mo
Looks really solid. I think you could have emphasized the thick lines even more in your shadow/light study
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my attempts. as a tattooer i like seeing the importance of strong bold lines
8mo
Looks really good. From a first glance though, I kinda miss variation. To my eye I only see bold lines and thin ones. Hope the feedback helps. Have a good one