DNLazar
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5mo
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I always struggle with fitting objects to composition. I spend a lot of time at the beginning stages moving vanishing points back and forth trying to make the character in the right place in the composition, and also large enough that I can show details, make some other object look far in the distance while at the same time trying to fit it on the page and not make any of that look odd :D
Guillermo R
5mo
Hi there! I really like your idea for this project, the main thing that “sticks out” for me is that your Vanishing point seems to be roughly at the character’s eye level, but the Horizon line of the buildings in the far background seems to be at the very bottom of the image, which is kind of breaking things for me (unless this is a very extreme version of the leaning tower of pisa, ha) anyways, hope that helps.. really interesting take on this tho!
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Loved watching the stream and how Dorian simplified shapes and values. Gave it a go and ended up with this
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This one was fun. Monster learns perspective.
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6mo
Looking back at my computer every 5 minutes to see if Stan has released the new lesson on perspective.
jk.. kind of.. just patiently sketching in the meantime.
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6mo
hi there, believe Stan and Marshall addressed this in one of their podcast episodes. If I remember correctly Stan mentions not to spend longer than 2 weeks per assignment. You are not supposed to be an expert at a specific assignment before you move on to the next, and you can always come back and redo the same assignment later with the new knowledge you have acquired. As he mentions, oftentimes new lessons or assignments might help you understand a previous one better.
hope it helps!
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7mo
Hi y'all. HELP PLEASE. Thanks to the suggestions of Lin, Nikklas Nilsson, & Arielle Ronin, here's my homework. I wouldve quit im afraid but Lin had an idea to draw rhythms of people in the newspaper with a crayon. I can do that! This led me to doing the same to my pictures & making a Rhythms Plan. Invaluable advice. They're not perfect. I'm level 1 with no knowledge of anatomy.
6mo
These are great! I do notice that you are doing something I used to do a lot and focus on specific lines and angles (i hope you don’t mind that I mention how I “broke out of that habit)
although I 100% agree with Stan and faster drawings should be done once you are more comfortable with them, I have to say that 1min gestures really forced me to break out of the habit of focusing on individual lines and looking at the overall shape instead
WARNING: if you do decide to try it, the first few days (or weeks in my case) your drawings will look worse and often find yourself not even able to complete the drawing in time (this is a good thing!!! So don’t get discouraged if it happens) it will eventually force you to stop focusing on the lines and rather look at the overall form and rhythms
anywayy.. those are my 2 cents, I hope it helps somehow!
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7mo
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I find it really difficult to get the proportion right.
6mo
I think overall you are able to “read” all of your poses but if you are looking to improve some of your proportions something I think might help is starting with a much softer initial line weight. Then take a step back and you can judge yourself if something feels “off” and adjust before trying to put down darker lines. I usually just put down darker lines once I’m happy with how the basic structure of my drawing is looking
6mo
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Alright, I didn’t make the deadline but I’m finally caught up in projects because I started the course late, I’d still appreciate some feedback on this one because I really want to improve on figure/gesture drawings (figure drawing course is next on my list)
I usually draw 20-30 1min poses every day so I used this project to give myself a bit more time and focus on implementing “force” lines and some basic muscle bumps and other anatomy features.
i spent about 5mins on each of these
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7mo
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1 - from reference
2 - from imagination
Definitely feels like I need to work on getting a better read on the “motion” when drawing from imagination.
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7mo
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Musketeer - It took me about 4 hours and I probably took too many measurements. Happy with the proportions but not with how long it took me
Female portrait - I used less measurements and took me about 2 hours. Still happy with the proportions so I’m probably going to try even less measurements next time and try to get it done faster.
Overall pretty happy with this assignment. I’ve always been very intimidated of drawing faces from photos and I’ve avoided it all together but this method really helped me get rid of that
7mo
Alright, I know we are not supposed to start shading or painting anything yet but I was happy with the drawing being accurate so I decided to try to paint my first portrait.. still trying to figure out my brushwork “style” but very happy with how it turned out.
It definitely took me waaaaaaaay too long to do this but happy with the result considering I have very basic knowledge of values and painting/blending.
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7mo
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Study of Dave Malan.
lines: focused on trying to get the energy/rhythm of his lines and patterns. i know not all of the lines are matching his but i wanted to focus on the technique and not creating an exact copy of his
proportions: pretty happy with the proportions although I do see now her eyes are a bit bigger than they should be and her right hand (screen left) is a bit smaller than it should be
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7mo
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1- Rhino with importance method
2- Rhino with light direction method
3- Rhino with different light direction
4- Monkey from observation with importance and light direction (worried I added too many details but I felt like they helped read the form of the sculpture and the light direction)
5- Giraffe from observation with light direction (It was really hard holding back and not start to shade this thing to read the form better but I added some lighter texture lines instead that seem to also help read the form)
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7mo
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Fun warmups but I felt eager to finish them so I could start drawing, so some of the lines were rushed. I’ll have to keep working on that
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1- drawing the reference images to understand the gorilla
2 - drawing new poses out of my imagination (gorilla takes the Proko Basics course)
3 - full page sketch of character (gorilla finishes the course and graduates)
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I tried to use a lot of lose lines but I guess I darkened the final ones too much because you can barely see all the lose lines underneath
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8mo
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1- Before watching demo: I was worried I went too simple. I also noticed after taking this picture that I I chopped off skully’s head with the hat.. NOT intentional
2 - after watching demo: fixing proportions and the skull
3 - applying the same principles to other photos
8mo
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1 - Pear without looking at demo
2 - pear after looking at demo (trying to improve shapes
3 - portrait without looking at demo
4 - portrait after looking at demo (tried to improve proportions and shapes)
not great but happy that I learned this exercise so I can practice and improve
