Gannon Beck
Gannon Beck
Virginia
I make T-shirts and comics.
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My first attempt. It looks good in a general sense, but it feels stiff some reason. Any advice is welcome.
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Gannon Beck
Not a bad first attempt. Just keep going. In a session, try to do a bunch. Your best ones will come after you're warmed up.
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@mertaal
I really struggled with this one. I kept on pitching at it but never felt like I was doing a good job of replicating someone else's lines. The Karl Kosinski one at the end is unfinished- I tried using a brush pen and ran out of ink!
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Gannon Beck
These look like successful experiments to me. Nicely done!
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Aiden Yoshida
This assignment was easily the most challenging for me so far. Definitely want to tackle a lot more references before moving on.
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Gannon Beck
Nice job, Aiden! I found this one challenging as well. While I will definitely circle back around and do this lesson repeatedly, I've been pushing on with the other lessons. I think the benefit of that is that I'm getting a better understanding of what lessons need to become part of my regular drawing regimen. And there's a lot I need to work on. Drawing is hard.
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Gannon Beck
Some more two value studies, which is the theme this week. BTW, I'll be leading a drawing group on two value studies at the Combat Art Studio at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico VA on 9 Dec at 10:00 am. It's open to the public and free. If you are in the DC area and want to join us, the more the merrier.
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Gannon Beck
My pencil sharpener broke so I ended up doing these with a sharpie. I'll get a new sharpener or make a sanding block and try again tomorrow. Lots of room for growth on these, but I like this approach. I'm going to be doing more these with my drawing group via Zoom on Sunday, December 3rd. If anyone wants to join us, DM me.
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@maldestro
My attempt at the assignment, but something seems really off, i can't point my finger on what
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Gannon Beck
Keep in mind that one point perspective is a bit of a contrivance. Especially in cases when the vanishing point is out of the picture plane, two or three point perspective is a better option. That said, you did well with this assignment. It looks to me like you understand the principal.
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Stan Prokopenko
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Gannon Beck
Thanks, Stan! I've really been enjoying the Drawing Basics Course. Even though I've been drawing for years, I keep coming across techniques and approaches that are new to me. I don't think there is a better foundational approach to drawing than what you're unveiling. Almost every book or class I've come across takes at least some little piece of instruction for granted, where you are not. This class isn't just useful in and of itself, it makes every other drawing class or book instantly more useful to students. For anyone paying attention, your class in an innovation in drawing instruction. I'll be working with the information in here for the rest of my life. Thanks for all you do!
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Blake Pawlikowski
I'd love to try and join a call sometime, but I have some catching up to do. I can't make this Sunday work regardless. Hope I can maybe join in the future! I'll keep an eye out for your posts in case it works out sometime.
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Gannon Beck
We do these most Sunday, so there will be plenty of opportunities. We'd be glad to have you join us.
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Johannes Schiehsl
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Gannon Beck
Excellent work!
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Gannon Beck
I'm just about to start in on the Rhythms section of the Drawing Basics Course. A few of us in the course have been doing regular calls, and this Sunday (7PM EST) we'll be doing exercises together using Stan's rhythms approach to gesture drawing. DM me if interested in joining us on the call.
Jin Wook Han
Hello. It's my first upload my drawing here. I wanted to have a job related with drawing 20 years ago but I lost my confident so I gave up. Even though I'm having a different job, drawing is still my kind of hobby so I want to be good at it. I already had a lot of trying and giving up many times before but I'll try again and be patient to keep going. It was really hard for me to draw lesser dark value and lesser white value. But it was interesting experience. I hope I can get advice about the drawing. Thanks.
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Gannon Beck
You're off to a good start!
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Martin M
Traced the lines off my screen as I didn't have a printer on hand. I went for the challenge of moving the light source. I moved it higher up. But I dove into it way too fast. Somewhere half way through I felt like I needed more info so I opened up the real photo and realised I understood some shapes incorrectly. Like the eye area is popped outwards. I might try this again but will try to find a printer. Need to think it through a bit more before jumping in.
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Gannon Beck
I think you've done a really nice job on this. He feels like he is emerging from a fog.
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Gannon Beck
2 value sketch from this morning.
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Joan Lacasse
My interpretation of 2 Weeks Challange: First part As I draw almost every day, I added an element of my own to make the exercise more challenging. I love flowers, so I chose to draw a flower every day from a small book of beautiful photos of flowers named, «Flower Colur Guide» edited by Phaidon. I dated each drawing for two weeks. I first used C, S and I lines. I made a first passage in pencil 4H and then in 2B. I did not erase the lines of the first passage. So we often see them in the background. As I continued this course, I learned new concepts (Line Weight, type line, etc.). I then had the idea to take again, in a second time, the 14 drawings below and to realize them in ink while trying to apply the concepts presented in the more advanced Lines course. I am now in the Shape section and I am working on Simple Animal Project and on inking the drawings below (which I will present in a future post). I hope you have as much fun doing these exercises as I do.
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Gannon Beck
Very nice!
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Gannon Beck
Quick study from this morning.
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Gannon Beck
Some seal gestures.
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Gannon Beck
Hokay, so this one was NOT in my comfort zone, but I loved it. It's a great feeling to be given a new and useful approach to drawing. I'm going to have to lean into this one a bit before it feels natural, but I'm happy with what I learned with this first one.
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Gannon Beck
Here is a daily exercise from me.
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Yury
Studying characters from LoTR/Hobbit movies.
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Gannon Beck
Very nice!
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Styrbjörn Andersson
During today's drawing I learned something that helped explaining why many of my drawings end up feeling stiff - especially when clothes are involved. I realized that often even when I got a decent, dynamic pose, I end up ruining the gesture by drawing clothes that do not conform to the motion that I want to convey. In this case I was on the verge of doing the same thing, but luckily caught myself in the sketch stage. In the attached image is the before and after version of Little Red Hood. The idea was to make her body twisting, with her head continuing the motion (as shown with the rough shapes to the right). However, when I added her skirt I just left it hanging straight down with her legs standing straight together (left image). This killed the motion, and something felt really off because of it. Normally I just shrug and move on to refined line art and shading, but this time something clicked. I corrected the skirt so that it followed the pose more closely, and I feel that the new result (middle one) works much better.
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Gannon Beck
Nice! Good adjustment on the skirt.
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