Hudson Koonce
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9mo
Day 9/14
I did some space vehicle drawings from imagination today. It was very fun to just play around with ideas.
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Day 8/14
I did some fun little chimp sketches today. I think I’m gonna take a dive into studying their anatomy, since it’s been a while since I’ve learned a new animals anatomy.
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9mo
Day 7/14
Did this fun little sketch of a painting done by one of my favorite artists.
Artist trivia: Does anyone know what artist painted the original?
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Day 6/14
I went WAY out of my comfort zone today and drew a car. I am horrible at drawing vehicles and was hoping I could get some critiques and tips for how to improve. Please don’t hold back, I really want to get better in this area of drawing.
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10mo
Day 5/14
Here’s a few more mini master studies from the St. Louis Art Museum. This was seriously a blast!
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10mo
Day 5/14
I went to the St. Louis Art Museum today and did these two studies of some of my favorite paintings by Zorn. Kept them very small and semi fast, since I didn’t have a lot of time, but I thoroughly enjoyed doing live master studies in front of the actual paintings. 10/10 recommended
10mo
I can really see a lot of improvement! Well done Stan👏🏼
10mo
Day 4/14
Here are a few more still life’s in oil paints. Tried to keep these quick, since they’re just practices, but I’m pretty pleased with them considering I’ve barely ever painted before.
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10mo
Very cool! I’m curious to know if you did any under drawings or “construction drawings” for this?
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Day 3/14
I know it’s not technically “drawing” but I decided to paint two quick still life’s with oil paints for today. I might do a couple more later.
open for any critiques or tips
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Tried this once, but I felt like I got way to caught up in the details, so I did it two more time, trying to simplify it to basic CSI lines.
I’m open for any critiques on how to simplify better, or if you notice something else to critique.
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Here’s my snail attempt. I definitely see some problems with proportions, but I really wasn’t trying to focus on that too much. Mainly just worrying about those CSI lines. I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. open for any tips or critiques.
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Sharing all the 4 images - tried to understand structure for snail and camel - was finding them too difficult to draw otherwise. I am trying to focus on the line quality keeping in mind that shadows will have thicker lines and overlapping forms will also have thicker lines. I was struggling where both these happen - for example in skully's nose, which is in light but also overlaps with the left eye - I used thicker lines for the nose and thinner ones for the left eye as the nose is in front of the eye in the image - but the light and shadow scales are opposite here - nose is in light while left eye is in shadow, so the line weight should be opposite to what I did? Not sure.
10mo
These all look super cool!
I think you got a bit to carried away in the details, or maybe more than a bit, which causes them to look super cool, but also causes the loss of those exaggerated CSI lines that Stan is looking for in this assignment.
I wouldn’t worry too much about line thickness in this assignment, just the line shapes.
These really do look awesome though. I’ll definitely be following your account to see what you create next.
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Wow Guys! You make it look like this is an advanced course...
Anyways here are my attempts at level one.
I did this digitally, because that is what I'm trying to learn.
I started at the laces of the boots, but I noticed proportional errors, so I stopped.
Tomorrow I will either redo the level one or attempt the level two, so any feedback would be much appreciated.
10mo
These both look awesome. Great work!
For the snail, I think it’s pretty good, the proportions are a bit off here and there but that’s no big deal in this assignment.
I noticed a bit more proportional problems in the boot, but really the only way to fix those would be to redraw it, which they don’t matter enough to do that. You have a lot of good strong lines on this one, which is really good, however there are some particularly near the top that I would simplify even more.
One thing to keep in mind is to keep it very clear what line is what type. The one on the far left in particular. I would just simplify that to an I line, or exaggerate the curves more to make it more clear.
I hope this helped. Keep up the good work👏🏼
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Day 2/14
tried to make the jar a bit wider than the actual one, so that it would fill up more of the page horizontally. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
critiques are always welcome
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10mo
You did really good at making this not wonky with that tricky perspective and shape. Nice job!
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10mo
Day 1/14
I’m a bit behind on posting these lol. I’ll try to post a few per day to catch up. Here’s some random objects that I have lying around my room.
I love earths world!! It is so useful to find great and interesting references. Another place I like to go is a website called line of action. They have all kinds of references for people and even hands and feet too. It’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t been on there before.
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How do people get photos without shadows on their paper. Seems no matter what I do, I end up with something casting a shadow.
10mo
Great drawing! And luckily this problem has an easy solution. All you need is a strong (preferably white) direct light source. Before I had my ring light, I would just flip a lamp over and use it as a spotlight. Here’s two example pics, in the first picture I just used my ceiling light. In the second one I used my ring light which I had set up about 1 1/2 feet above and to the right of my piece. Didn’t matter what other lights were on, because none of them could compete with the brightness of the ring light.
hope this helped!
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10mo
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My lines are so shaky. I practice lines every day, and still can't draw a straight line to save my life.
10mo
I don’t consider myself a pro at drawing straight lines either, but here’s some tips I wish I had known sooner.
Your lines will be more straight and confident when you pull the pencil in your direction vs away from you.
Speed is a huge part in line confidence, if you spend too much time trying to draw one straight line, than it’s gonna look shaky.
Don’t draw from your fingers, don’t be afraid to use you wrist, elbow and even shoulder to help you get good lines.
And lastly, don’t be afraid to use a ruler for those really long lines (such as the lines going all across the page in this piece) a ruler is a very helpful tool for any artist and it is totally ok to use.
Anyways, I hope that was helpful. Keep practicing your lines, and have fun!
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