Crystal Blue (she/her)
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Squinting at potatoes is my ✨passion✨
Crystal Blue (she/her)
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This looks really good! I'd suggest picking a focal point (usually for portraits its the eyes) and going in and adding some really hard edges to grab the viewer's attention
Good work here! I like how you clearly put thought into designing your shadow shapes and have your hatching follow the contour of the form. I would focus on making sure your figures are balanced. Pay attention to where the center of gravity is with relation to the feet, right now it looks like your subject might fall backwards. Here is a video on balance that I found helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLBhO-4YEww&t=0s
I also think you can work on the neck and shoulders. Notice how the neck curves up into the head. I'd also pay attention to the foreshortening on the arm on the left, right now it just looks a little long.
Overall, good work! keep it up :)
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I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm working on the Drawing Basics course here as a main priority, but have dabbled with a few other smaller courses at Proko when I didn't have any other assignments for the fundamentals course. Recently I started working through the self-study syllabus created by Kristian Nee, which has a thorough (multi-year!) course plan for self study. So far I've found it really helpful! I've attached the full syllabus (it's a super long image file) in case you want to use it also. (Credit: Kristian Nee)
Crystal Blue (she/her)
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Do you have a link to the original file for the syllabus? The one here is pretty low res
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Gesture Feedback11d
Hello! I was practicing gesture, specifically trying to follow the FORCE method. I also went back and added in the robo-bean on afew of them. I feel like I had a particularly hard time getting the torso to look right and getting the legs to connect to the torso.
Any feedback is appreciated!
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I have a really hard time with clearly seeing the values on the sphere ^^'
Spheres r tricky. There’s a bounce light on the side of the sphere near the rectangle, including that cld help
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2022/11/6. Good morning everybody here’s my today’s 30 mins warming up exercise. Thanks and have a good Sunday.
overall very nice!
The thumb looks a little long, also the contour lines on the middle finger should be parallel becuase finger joints can’t bend sideways (if that makes sense, pls ask if it doesn’t)
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Really cool painting!
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Rendering Study Critique1yr
Hello!
im pretty new to rendering, so I could really use some feedback.
i tried going in and first trying to get texture w textured brushes , then adding big shadows, and then adding more intense textures, except for on cotton where i did the bigger shadows first to define the form. Idk if there’s a better process I cld be using.
Your values are great! nice simplifying
Great lecture, can't believe it's free! Question: does it make sense to apply the same strategy of lines bouncing off each other when drawing the face?
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unfortunately I haven't gotten to this part of the course, so I can't really offer critique. However, I can recommend looking up bodybuilders and tracing the anatomy on them, then drawing in contours to understand the 3-d form. It's really helped me and hopefully it can be helpful for you.
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It's coming along nicely! here are my thoughts:
- The composition is leading my eye to the face of the guy with the red hair, so consider putting more contrast in that area to make it more interesting
I personally think that adding brighter brights in the purple to have some kind of glowing effect would look good
- It's somewhat hard to tell what's going on with the blond woman's legs. Make sure her outfit follows the form of her butt, right now it looks really flat. I'm also not sure about her left leg, I feel like it would be really hard to twist that way. Maybe have her bend her leg at her knee instead of it bending back at the hip (does that make sense? I can clarify if it doesn't
hope that helps =)
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2022/10/3. Good morning everybody. This is my today’s 30 minutes warming up exercise (that I've extended to 40 this time cause I couldn’t finish it in time). Thanks and have a good week.
Very nice form! The only changes I'd make to it would be with the hair strands, remember that gravity will pull them straight down, so they won't have the same tilt as the face does =)
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I did some tracings over photos to practice. Any feedback is appreciated, it was really hard!
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Forearm studies2yr
These are forearm studies I did from the pictures in proko’s video. Any feedback is appreciated!
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Hey Crystal,
I like your costume studies, it's something we should practice often.
The thing with clothes is that they are influenced by the underlying form- gravity- and points of tension.
These things are what causes wrinkles and folds. Also, it's good to show the seams in the garments to help, along with the wrinkles to show perspective of the form. I did a sketch that I hope helps :)
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Clothing studies2yr
I did some clothing studies since I tend to have trouble with my figured looking much worse once I add clothes. My goals were to show the form and have nice shape design. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
overall very nice! I think for the sloth and the cat you could work on the 3-d structure. Think about how you’d break them down into planes (you can also do the excersize where you draw it broken down into planes.) it’s also helpful to think about the contour lines
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Arm studies2yr
I did some arm anatomy studies. Keeping track of all the little forearm muscles was pretty confusing. Feedback is appreciated! Also if anyone has any specific ways they like to practice this sort of stuff that’d also be good :)
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