J B
Minnesota, USA
Non-traditional (i.e. mid-40s, post college) student, finally learning to draw
J B
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Just wanted to share one thing that helped me with one of these. I had seen the connect the dots exercise on Draw A Box a long time ago and someone had suggested this to help others who were struggling with this one: Start by placing your pencil at the first dot and then, rather than watching the line as you draw, focus on the endpoint you're going to and kind of ignore the line itself as you're drawing. That approach really helped me a lot with that particular exercise, so I thought I'd share in case it could help others.
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My first "sketch from imagination". I was quite happy with the result but after watching the demo I realise I didn't do the exercice at all... just mixed two images together. Let's try with another animal and a better approach!
J B
15d
That's really good!! Very creative!
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16d
Inspired by someone who posted on the YouTube version of this video, I drew a Pigmeleon
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The Tip to use a color pencil for sketching was a revelation for me, thank you 🙏
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Agree, I bought one after this video and I definitely feel more "free" when sketching. I think there's a pre-existing mental block to using black pencil for sketching in my mind; the colored pencil seems to not be limited by that.
I think the red pencil helps. I still have too many searching lines, but more of them are finding what they are looking for. This looks far better than what I did in graphite:
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Bit late to the party this week so have just completed the Level 1 assignment so far - Level 2 imagination drawings to follow... Tried to stick to CSI lines and keep them loose. The hand was the most difficult so it's a bit more clunky and less loose I guess. The Penguin was fun to draw and the curves helped with the looseness of the sketch, even though the overall proportion was a bit 'all over the oche"
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Ok, so realised afterwards the head is a little too big compared to the original clean penguin, but hey still looks like one!
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I decided to mix things up and draw Stan. I’m still a beginner, so it’s not perfect but it was good practice. Despite how it looks, I did sketch the structures first before detailing it :)
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Thank you Stan. The term "negative space" - might be good to explain it for the course students that don't already know what it means.
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I was thinking also the term "rhythm" he uses a number of times in this video and what exactly is meant here. I've heard it before in other art videos but never had a clear explanation of what it really meant.
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22d
I'm definitely a level 1 student here, but I decided on this last assignment to try the level 2 exercise anyway. I have done some drawing from imagination before I started this course and figure it's worth a try, even if I crash and burn :-D
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I chose a hyrax as my creature. Initially, I did some practice drawings from the reference photos and then some practice from imagination. Then the final version. I’m definitely a level 1 student, but decided to try this because it seemed fun :)
23d
I decided to import the photo of the physical drawing into Procreate and paint it. Line work is still rough as I didn’t clean it up well enough, but it was a fun exercise :)
24d
Very helpful, thank you! I definitely get into the trap of "lost lines" but I'm working on it.
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Thanks for the classmate who uploaded the cat's photo to #14 days challenge#. Sorry I can't remember your name. Your cat photo is so funny, I couldn't help myself drawing a picture for him or her.
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The three-in-one-page is mine. The other two are from my daughter. I‘m totally stunned by her ability to capture the proportions although she never really did something like this before
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Had a lot of fun sketching these! I noticed that proko would draw the same line multiple times, but confidently. I found this method to be calming! If I messed up the placement of a line, it's okay, just draw it again! I probably should have done an initial lay-in or something though, because the proportions are off (esp the penguin) and each of my drawings didn't fit the page hah...also re-looking at proko's vid, perhaps I could have been much looser with my lines
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Tried to commit to the line by not erasing when I felt like I had made a 'mistake' not sure if it ended up being too messy though
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I really like that version of the penguin, a lot more than the original actually! Great work!
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Here is my attempt, proportions are def off, but I always have issues with those :(
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I have a question on the assignment. I'm I suppose to go more in the direction of Gestural drawing? I feel like this is the aim for this assignment. Don't worry about details get the energy. That's what I'm getting, correct? I just see a lot of people going into details.
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I wondered about this as well... I started the assignment in a more gestural manner and then noticed that a lot of people aren't doing it that way... started wondering if I had misinterpreted it
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Some simple sketched portraits of Naomi Urasawa and Kaiji Kawaguchi from the first episode of Urasawa’s Manben series. Also, some bonus manga style eyes :)