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Hi all, I'm Kiki and I recently started the course. I tried the pears first, then watched the demonstration and sketched a little mandarin. I then challenged myself with the portrait. I tried again the portrait a few months later after watching the demo. The first one took me less than 30 min, the second one took me 2h and a half. Improvement is visible but after the darkest tones I kind of lost track of the values. I used a HB 80% graphite pencil for draft and brightest tone, 2B for mid tones and 4B for darkest tones. Any critique is welcome. Thanks
Stephen Clark
I think your values across all of these are pretty solid. the only think that I think ends up reading more pronounced that you'd be looking for if the cheek on the left side of the drawing. While the reference does have a shadow that goes through that area, the big leap from the lighter value to the darker one makes that plane change feel even more steep. In your earlier thumbnail sketch, you suggested a break in that shadow area and that communicated that plane change while not giving so harsh of an impression. That being said, that shadow side of the face is rendered gorgeously, with delicate details and a great family of values.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice improvement! Your fruit drawings are very good. I like how blocky they look. They look like they are popping off the page. The 2nd portrait is really sophisticated. I can clearly see the shapes of the 5 different values. I would watch out putting dark that dark spot on his lip, but that’s all I notice. Looks great! Keep it up!
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