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Gannon Beck
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added comment inWeekly watercolor thread
In an interview, Jared Cullum talked about how he did tons of master studies at postcard size.
I've been experimenting with it a little and I see the utility in it. While it doesn't help much with things like detail and edge control, it is great for color mixing and seeing what a painting looks like at the various stages.
These are all studies of Winslow Homer watercolors.
501st? These must be stormtroopers in training, then. Nice job showing the planes on the figures. I'm getting Bridgman vibes.
Gannon Beck
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500th Day of Proko and counting.
I'm too busy today to do anything special for it. Maybe that's kind of the point. There isn't any fanfare that comes with showing up--just the steady progress.
About five minute sketches. I may have spent a little more, but not much.
heyy, Congrats on hitting 500!! Just like a sculpture, your skill is getting polished 1 layer stronger each day and it shows
500?!?! No wonder these figures look so effortlessly dynamic and dimensional. Congrats!
Wow congrats! That’s an achievement. I wonder how many artists have consciously and intentionally hit 500 days of studies like this.
concur with Jyayasi, it adds another dimension (figuraively too hehe) to your gesture study and I like how you make them into such simple shapes and not overcomplicate it
Nice studies! I am digging this new aesthetic of your gesture studies where you map the shadow shapes.
Gannon Beck
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Asked for help
This is something I need to spend more time on. I can tell I've got a little bit of fear of it because when I went to dive into the lessons this morning, I ended up cleaning my office for an hour to avoid it.
I have spent some time on these concepts before this thanks to Dorian Iten's lessons, but not nearly enough.
Looking at what I just did, I think I need to get my dark halftones just a little bit darker.
Gannon Beck
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498th Day of Proko and counting.
Untimed. Not too happy with it, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
Yeah, indeed. We all have bad days. While there seems to be some proportion issues, I really like the uniform pen pressure you have maintained throughout the piece. The shading is smooth and the forms are well defined. I can feel the softness of the hair and differentiate it from the harder creases and folds of her shirt.
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Had a lot of fun with these! I tried modifying the shapes into stylized ones and exaggerating the pose as well. It was hard to draw stylized forms in perspective and maintaining the relative proportions. However, I encountered a problem in the stylized characters in 9 and 11. These poses look heavily foreshortened and I didn't intend so. It seems to me that the proportions of my characters are responsible for this illusion. Or am I doing something wrong? As I do not intend to make this kind of foreshortening, is there a way to avoid this kind of distortion with the same stylization choices?
