J B
Minnesota, USA
Non-traditional (i.e. mid-40s, post college) student, finally learning to draw
J B
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3d
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For those confused about the whole ellipse axes being off from proper center, etc, like I was, this graphic helped me a ton (original source: https://youtu.be/HohAkp5xKC4?si=oPLUl6dsSf9qYlsu&t=27)
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Here’s my first attempt at this assignment, it’s a Trabant. Because the lighting is not great in the photo of my physical pencil drawing, I decided to retrace it in Procreate as well. Hopefully it makes my intended lines a bit clearer. (Still working on my manual line quality :-/ )
J B
5d
Here are the references I used, from eBay and Wikipedia, respectively
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13d
I never before learnt before about this weird way that the long axis does not need to be in the middel and that the short ellipse axis goes parallel to the vanishing point... very cool!!! But it does work... I will need to experiment with that! And that only with a perfect circle both axes are through the center and are equal... very interesting!
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12d
Seriously loving this series. I've gotten so much out of this course, thank you again for creating it!
2mo
My understanding from Stan is that we're about half way through the course right now. As for intermediate courses, there's actually intermediate projects within the course that you can tackle if you're done with beginner projects.
We've also got the perspective course in the works that we hope to release in the later part of 2024 for presale.
Beyond that I would look at Stan's figure drawing fundamental course. Hope this helps!
2mo
Oh nice! I didn't realize we were only about halfway, that's fantastic! Thanks John, that's good info!
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Intermediate course?2mo
I was just curious if there was a plan to have an intermediate-level course once the "Drawing Basics" course was complete? I have a feeling that the Drawing Basics course will likely come to a close soon and was wondering if there was going to be a "next step" comprehensive course following up on that one?
Thanks!
3mo
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So here are my submissions for the pre-meeting assignments given. I’ve not yet included a finished drawing. I’m still new to drawing (I’m currently a level 1 student in Stan’s drawing basics course), but I thought I’d give it a try just the same. The Kley drawing I used for the gesture and analytical exercises was “Die Schleppe” (included here for reference). I also included two reverie drawings: a dog jumping onto a table and a horse rearing. Thanks! :)
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Here’s my attempt at the level 1 assignment:
3mo
Really excited for this course! I really enjoy Kley's work and I love Marshall (of course), so when I saw this come available at Proko, it was a no brainer to purchase!
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Progress thanks to Drawing Basics and Proko3mo
I wanted to show some progress and give thanks to Stan and the other great people at Proko for their excellent courses. A year ago, when I first started seriously learning to draw, my daughter asked me to illustrate a character she created for a school story she wrote. Today, I saw a video about the legend of the Minotaur and decided to draw one for fun. I'm still nowhere near an expert, but I feel like the progress between the two pictures attached is pretty clear. After working through the assignments for the drawing basics course (and some other studying on the side), I can see really significant results. Thank you again Stan and co for everything and I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can in the future! :)
4mo
Thanks Stan, this was really helpful. I had a lot of difficulty trying the assignment at first, but watching you in this video and seeing the relationships with the grid helped me a lot. I'm going to go back and try a few of the thumbnail versions for a bit before tackling the big one again.
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Manga character practice5mo
I’m interested in doing manga as a hobby and have been practicing alongside the drawing basics assignment. Thought I’d post a couple practice drawings for fun. These were done just with a ballpoint pen on printer paper, nothing fancy:
5mo
I have to echo the sentiment early in the first bit of the stream where the person noted that your videos and classes have helped a lot. I feel the same way; I never went to art school and am starting from scratch in my 40s. Your drawing basics course and your other YouTube videos have really been a huge help for me. Keep up the good work, Stan!
6mo
I’ve always found gesture drawing difficult, but this video was very helpful, especially to see Stan’s process. I’m hoping this unit will help me improve a bit in that area. Here’s a practice gesture drawing I did last night for fun of my dog sleeping.
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7mo
As both someone interested in art and also interested in psychology, this was a really interesting breakdown. I definitely understand this, very cool!
8mo
There will be more videos added (i hope :))
8mo
I remember at the beginning of the course someone asked how long it would be and the estimate was something like 18 months overall
8mo
I'm in a similar boat, so I'll share what I've been doing in case it helps. I started by reading Andrew Loomis' books on drawing (be aware, there *are* nudes in them, but they're really well-known and considered to be excellent references). I'm doing Proko's Drawing Fundamentals course which has been hugely helpful. I went through Draw-A-Box (I stopped at the animal drawing section to go back and focus on Proko's fundamentals course for now). I also follow a number of YouTube channels: David Finch, Ryan Benjamin, Tim McBurnie, Marc Brunet, Mmmmemonexx, Chommang_drawing, Manga Materials, etc. All of that, combined with regular drawing practice using randomly-generated drawing prompts and just fun things I wanted to draw, has had a massive improvement in my ability over the past 6 months or so... like, leaps and bounds. Hopefully some of that is useful to you!
8mo
The procreate tip was just in time for me, I had been battling it recently trying to figure out how to adjust images correctly in that way. Thank you!!
8mo
It's funny, but I had originally meant to post here to recommend Draw A Box and how they do the intuitive perspective with boxes (I forget which lesson it was), where you try to draw your lines going toward the vanishing point, but don't use a ruler until you're checking them later. To be honest, that exercise ended up helping me a lot. I'm still a beginner myself, but one other tip I saw someone mention in a youtube video a while ago was to look on Google Street View and find a random place (or just Google Images) and then put the image into a graphics program and try to trace where the perspective lines are for each building or item. (Alternately, I suppose you could print it and do the same.) The person who posted the video said that it really helped them a lot to get a "feel" for perspective. I've been meaning to try it out myself also.
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