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@leltri
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2yr
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The rabbit's back body side & ears, and the frog confused me. Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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2yr
Hi @leltri. Nice drawings! I think the simplifications are well done👍
- "The rabbit's back body side & ears, and the frog confused me".
It can be difficult to understand forms, especially when looking at a photograph, where our binocular vision won't help us. For me it has helped to imagine touching the subject; I might imagine swooshing my hand over the surface of the animal, or I might imagine rubbing my face against it. Like it was my pet😀. And strangely enough, that tends to give me some more information of what the forms I'm seeing actually are. It's a bit like how imagining that you're striking the pose yourself, can help you in the gesture exercise (How to Draw Gesture). In fact imagining being the animal could help here too.
- I can see that you're taking the Drawing Basics course as well. That's great! Keep doing that 💪😎👍
If you haven't already, I would recommend that you get the warmup exercises into your practice routine (Warmup - Mushrooms & Warmups to Improve Line Quality). You might want to watch this video Ultimate Guide to Pencils and Erasers for instruction on how to hold and control your pencil.
- The forms you've drawn feel three dimensional, but some angles and crosscontours suggest that it could be beneficial for you to work a bit more on drawing the individual forms (spheres, cylinders & boxes). If that sounds like a good idea, draw three boxes from different angles, from imagination. Draw through the forms (lightly), as if the objects where made out of glass. Do the same with cylinders and spheres, then tag me (@Jesper Axelsson) if you want me to take a look.
I hope this helps :) Let me know if you have any questions!
@leltri
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2yr
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Here's my first try before the demo. Penguin was the first one and I think my strokes were short and not confident enough. After studying the demo maybe I'll do it again, especially for the penguin and hand. Those were quite difficult for me.
@leltri
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2yr
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I've done the snail and boots (posted before this). Then I watch and study the demo for the snail and boots. Now I try to draw the level 2 before watching the demo. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
These are very beautiful! Very clean line quality! I still need to work a lot on that!
@leltri
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2yr
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Left is my drawing before watching the demo. Very simple and lack of exploration. Hehehe. Right is after the demo.
@leltri
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2yr
Asked for help
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2yr
Hello! Really nice job with the pear, and great improvement from your first attempt to your 2nd. Something with the portraits I'm noticing is that there's not as much separation between your values, specifically with the man. I think the clarity of the 2nd darkest value could be improved, as it's hard to tell it apart from darkest value. Also, notice how the cheek on the right side of the page is being cast into shadow, so this would affect the value for this area. Hope this helps :)
