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12d
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I do not know if I am very late or too late, but I just finished Level 1. The hand was the easiest one for me, the pinguin was the hardest. I drew this $%&& bird 5 times because he kept looking stupid. My lines got better with each time and that's what matters.
Daniel Stevens
11d
I agree with Andrey. The arm is great. Nice confident, straight lines with proper angles. The penguin ended up looking very nice. The lines appear a little tight/ maybe slightly hesitant. Maybe not as loose and gestural as it could be, but the lines are clean regardless. Great work!
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Here is my attempt at sketching from imagination with various references. Nerd alert. I created a Star Wars inspired Gungan Jedi. I was always fascinated with the Darth JarJar fan theory lol, so I thought I’d give it a go. This character is meant to be a light side Jedi. I wanted to give the character a sense of grace in combat, much Luke from the Mandalorian, while also trying to stay true to the ‘Drunken Boxing’ martial arts style, which gives the illusion of clumsiness and utilization of distraction techniques. The lightsaber is inspired from the various gungan weapons seen in Star Wars episode 1. Designs of the Jedi robe were taken from Boss Nass attire. It was a fun project and I learned a lot!
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Attached are my three reference images, and some sketches from my imagination. I just finished listening to one of The Witcher books and drew a scene from there - the one with the Unicorn.
18d
These have a ton of energy in them. The one of the horse galloping is particularly clean and pleasing to look at. Great use of gestural lines. How are The Witcher books btw? I was thinking about starting that series
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Had a go at the 3 references provided on my iPad. The arm was a bit tricky and didn’t get the foreshortening right on the fingers. Penguin was alright, and the most fun I had was with the girl character.
18d
It seems like you have really good control with the pressure on the iPad. It looks like sketch on paper
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So these are my attempts! I am not used to drawing from imagination to be honest but this seemed to be pretty fun. First attempt wasn't great but then I came up with something pretty decent I think!
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Here are my sketches from observation. All done digitally with iPad procreate and the closest brush I could find to a colored pencil. Looking forward to seeing what everyone draws from imagination!
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24d
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Digital sketch on procreate. I’m trying to use some lessons from the drawing basics course. Lay-in with straights and CSI, started with limited values and worked to higher complexity. I still feel that my a values are wishy washy. I feel pretty confident with the proportions. Critiques welcome
Day 16 - I continue with my animal study series. Today African and Asian trumps
27d
These are amazing. You do an excellent job using a mix of contour lines and cross hatching to clearly define the form. All with ball point pen it looks like!
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29d
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Level 2 CSI Skelly. A bit late with this, but wanted to post before watching Stan’s video.
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1mo
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Level 2 CSI Camel. Tried to use the lessons in the snail/ boot video to do a rough lay in and simplify further before laying in the CSI lines. Definitely felt more intuitive/ less restrictive this time. On to skelly
1mo
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Level 1 Snail. Much more relaxing than the boots. No laces lol
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1mo
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Here are my level 1 boots. Challenging exercise. Have only had time for this one so far. Planning to do the other 3 soon. Also dropped the ball on the draw everyday challenge 😣. Gotta catch up
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1mo
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My level 1 assignment.
I attempted the snail in pen. I let myself get into too much of a rush with it.
I'm really happy with how the boots turned out though I'm not sure if I simplified enough.
edit - I redid my snail in pencil. I'm much happier with it.
1mo
These are solid. Very clear what line shape your using for each segment. Great work. I’m struggling to get these finished myself.
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1mo
Day 3. Super late today. Really busy day but want to keep the streak going. Here’s a yoshi model. Photo from Pinterest. Cred: https://pin.it/1jAGNTx I used a red charcoal brush for he under drawing and went over with greyscale tapered flat brush. All digital on procreate.
1mo
Day 2. This is a digital sketch of a skeletal foot model in one of my offices. Leonardo Da Vinci was quoted saying “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art”. This foots more than a little messy lol. Not a lot of time today. But still fun
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1mo
Day 1, My baby boy. Digital art on procreate, all with tapered flat brush at 4% size.
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Before and after. Tried to simplify the details around the lips and create more uniform values. Thanks for the critique Stan!
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1mo
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Here are my practice ellipses. Staedtler mechanical pencil on printer paper lol. Fun warm up exercise. Tried to do a Luigi face with a bunch of overlapping ellipses with ghosting/ applying more pressure for certain features. Some of the pictures are a little smudged/ too light, but hey, it’s practice
2mo
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Hi! I would love to have some feedback on the recent drawings I had attempted. They were done in order - graphite, markers and charcoal. With charcoal I struggle to get consistent values, similarly with graphite while markers I’ve only recently discovered. The reference I found on Unsplash.
2mo
These are great. It seems like you may have struggled the most with the graphite sketch. The coffee or tea in the cup appears to be the same value as your dark half tone on the near facing side of the cup. In the charcoal and marker pieces, those values are clearly defined and are much darker. Given that the graphite was your first attempt, it appears that you caught that and corrected it. The marker one is stunning. I love the subtle plane changes on the handle. I also love the general/ gradual step down in values on the far/ inner curve of the cup. It looks like you selected the right values for the charcoal piece but it seems like you may need to slowly and evenly distribute the pencil strokes. Perhaps picking one direction for each plane/ value and just sticking to it may be helpful. Do you have a reference photo? Awesome work.
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