John Harper
Indiana
Database Professional with great love of art. I use my art sessions as mediation time away from the terminal.
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Vue Thao
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1yr
added comment inProject - Rhythms
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Here's mine.
John Harper
6mo
Bravo!
Hi there! I am not the best artist in the world, but I've done a lot of gesture drawing work, and it seems to me that you're putting a lot of effort into getting accurate forms of the body and your gestures are suffering a little bit because of it. I would suggest doing some VERY quick timed gesture drawings, around 15 seconds, to force yourself to really focus in on the FEELING of movement in the pose. When you only have time to do a stick figure, all you are able to do is focus on the feeling!
Once you start to exaggerate what you see and forego 'accuracy', you'll really be on the way to getting some great gestures done. I also recommend reading 'FORCE' by Mike Mattesi, if you can get your hands on it. His (and his students') gesture drawings are amazing, and he does a wonderful job of explaining the thought process behind them.
Same... these look like contours first then gesture lines second. Good work though. Keep it up.
Good start. I've lost count of mine because I keep going back to gesture. I can say that each time I do, I get better at it. I think my gestures, if I kept them all, would range in the tens of thousands.
Samuel Sanjaya
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2yr
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Neck muscles is really too complicated for me. My eyes having a hard time seeing anything other than the sterno. Any feedbacks are welcome
Marco Sordi
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2yr
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2023/7/30. Good Morning everybody. Here's a quick preparatory sketch for my next portrait. I didn't practice panneggio for a while so I'd like to put together a portrait and a fabric in the same composition. The reference will be a detail from a figure photo and the size will be an A3. The study below is in realized with conte and charcoal but the real work will be in graphite. I'm not sure if I'll put in a background too. If you have any idea or suggestion feel free to leave a message. Thanks.
@nathan_the_phaneuf
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2yr
Day 14: it is not the last time I'm praticising like this, but to celebrate the last day of the challenge, I did a 14th drawing and redid all the 13 previous sketches. Went to each spot I've been to, redid every composition I once did. Only things are the bench that weren't the same, but was the same model, and the squirrel that was another one. For the 14th drawing, it's a theatre near my home. A nice and quiet place for a nice session.
Hey Nathan, good job. Sketch every day, and you'll be amazed at your progress—my two cents on the perspective drawings. My formal training is in Architecture. I studied at the university for 4.5 years and apprenticed for another 2.5 years. That said, perspective is hard. I think that the hardest part is to draw what you see and not what you "think you see." I've attached a super simple version of your pavilion. It helps to keep those vanishing points always in your mind. One really fun way to do this is to use stretchy material like an elastic chord of some kind. Pin the chord to your paper and then go nuts. Here is a link to something like that https://youtu.be/hrtvoBGuBzg. Oh, and here is my really quick attempt to get the basics in.
Darron Field
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2yr
Recognizing this is way past the "deadline" but I did just start the course.
Perspective clearly needs work. But I chose a Picasso self-portrait for my first study. This is the first attempt.
I think, for example, Picassos bombing at Guernica shows the raw emotion surrounding the "horror of war." This painting is also beautiful, but it is also quite different from his earlier works.
Samuel Sanjaya
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2yr
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My landmark assignment. Still have trouble with proportions, I think i focused too much on the angle that i neglecting the form. Any feedback/critiques will be appreaciated
Another reason I like the wax pastels is that I have to be okay with the marks I put down because they are hard to erase. It is helping me gain some confidence in my mark making.
Mike Karcz
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2yr
Would love some insight. In the red circle, those two bulges: Am I looking at the Teres Major being split in two by the Lat, or is that the Teres Major and the Serratus?
The teres major is the lower one and the teres minor is the upper one. It is not being split int two.
