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Really enjoying this lesson. I feel like I've spent a lot of time "coloring my sketch" vs. painting the reference. Carving into just big blocky shapes really felt low stress. Might go back and finish rendering this one, nice subject.
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This one was a bit more of a struggle, I think the 3/4 view I did miss the lack of a sketch and floundered around finding the right placement for the features. Was worth it in the end, I like how it turned out although of course much could be improved upon.
9mo
thank you as always for your feedback, very insightful
9mo
Conceptually overall I think it's fine and brushwork looks alright to me depending on what "look" you are going for. Hard to say as it's unfinished, but everything from the person forward needs more detail (to bring it up to par with the front wolf) The head (if you planned to leave the color as is) gets lost in the sky. I would move the rear wolf slightly to where it is slightly behind the right leg of the human just to show a little more depth. The gray trees could be blurred/fading a bit as they are far in the distance. Pulling some color from the clothing into other elements (blues in the grass, reds in the fur or rocks maybe) could bring things together a little. I think if back wolf were adjusted a bit, and maybe front wolf were pushed closer to the camera a bit you'd have a more defined "triangle" of focus points. I think you're on the right track and it will make a nice piece.
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I found this sculpture in my house, it is really complicated to draw but I wanted to try,
my brain was boiling with tension while I was drawing:)) There are problems with proportions and something wrong with forehead
10mo
Hey Polinaagame, Overall I'd say pretty nice attempt on a challenging subject. For me on something with that complexity, I'd start with a simple 2 value (light / shadow) and then once the base was finished move into separating the darkest dark and the halftones. It looks like you may have started getting into the details a little too soon, it's easy to do but helps to always be working from big to small. For proportions, not too bad overall, I bet if you changed the steepness and location of that white line by itself on the left side, and maybe showed the bottom of the statue was coming back towards the horizon it would change a lot of how it "feels." I attached two rough pics to kind of illustrate. Good job, the material on the bust makes it quite challenging!
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Just in time for my warmup this morning
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This is mr Asaro Mcthreedeeprint everybody! He's a friend of Marco Bucci who got a great course here on proko for anybody who wants to learn to simplyfy the human head! He turned out a bit wonky, but hey! I started the 14 days challenge! Not every day will be a masterpiece i guess, but i will try to keep up!
10mo
nicely done. Print of the head looks pretty good as well, definitely good enough to see the plane changes.
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This one was a real beast, will likely come back and try it again at some point.
10mo
Specifically trying to go from my sketch (a bit more stylized) instead of straight copy of the reference and still keep solid / similar values. I think this one turned out pretty ok.
10mo
This one came out alright, didn't check my proportions in the sketch though and ended up doing a lot of fixing on the back end.
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This was a very fun assignment-- things are starting to really feel like they are all coming together. I think I need to work on proportion and, consequentially, likeness. I felt as though the most useful idea to keep in mind while working through these was brush economy, and while I certainly got lost in the weeds at times, the moments when I remembered to make that brush big and place one well thought out stroke lead to the most satisfying results.
I'm open to any feedback on these pieces, as well as any discussion on the assignment to further all of our mutual understanding. <3
10mo
I think these look pretty good. For me so far the further I get from the likeness the harder it gets to get the "right" values in place. Something subtle shifts a bit and then everything ends up just looking...off, so I've mainly stuck to trying to keep it as close as possible for now. I'm also very bad about using a small brush!
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This was harder than I thought it would be! Here is my drawing(digital) along with the reference picture. Any feedback appreciated and welcome!(:
10mo
Hey Elias, Looks good. I think for feedback, imho you missed a highlight outside the eye, a little shadow under the nose and arguably showing a transition to the reflected light under the chin and perhaps a little darker value at the right eye/nose transition (actually looking at the reference if the angle of the eyelash/lid was adjusted at a little more of an angle it'd probably take care of it) just for how it reads. I think it looks solid overall.
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Besides the angle being a bit off, the ear was a little wonky feeling. Maybe the values were too light but not sure
10mo
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I tried to draw an apple. There are two things I struggled mainly with:
1. I could not find the core shadow. How should I tackle that? Leave it out? Change my lighting?
2. I do not understand what way to move my pencil. It creates very different textures. But I am not sure how to make it look good? Do I hatch/crosshatch?
All the feedback is welcome. I love seeing all your assignments. Keep up the good work!
10mo
Portrait of my grandmother. One with more brush strokes visible and the other more fully rendered.
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I attempted level two… and things are definitely off. Any critique or comments are appreciated. I’m looking forward to learning more from the tutorials!
10mo
Hi Caitlin, nice portrait! I think defining your 5 values will help a little, it always is a nice visual reminder for me to know what I've got to work with, and it'll make it easy when we (and you) look back at it to see which value is where.
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I never knew something as simple as drawing the shape and define shadow can be this hard. I understand the assignment; however, my result I find not satisfying. The first attempt I define the light and the dark. It seems as though I am all over the place with the shadowing. I am not going to lie, it was hard for my brain to articulate not smoothing the lines. I think my line are too sharpe.
The Second attempt, I have completely fail the assignment. I can say I got carried away. Although I like it better, we are not suppose to smooth it. I also the proportion of the top of the pear is too skinny it needs to be a little wider.
These are the critique I have for myself for my pear. I will attempt the man later.
10mo
Hi Mandy, nice pears! I think it might help to "check things off" as you go (probably dark to light, but whatever you find easier) Once you've got your darkest points in, move to the next value. That way it's a little easier not to have as many ingredients in the pot at one time! I also think the reference pear might be a little easier to start with as it's got a little more defined transitions. Also remember your darkest dark is one value and the highlight is one value and those are generally the easiest thing to find. Then you have 1 value left for shadows. After that you only have 2 values to worry about! That helps me break it down into manageable chunks.
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The pear. Goal was to train drawing the shape using straight lines, find the edges and make the values clear. Drawing the shape with straight lines was a small (but delightful) discovery for me, as I realised that I have a tendency to curve every single line I draw. Using straight lines, I found the shape faster, it felt easier to find, and it actually looked better than the pear shapes I drew before this one, using a variety of curves. I also feel like my hand is more confident drawing when finding the shape with straight lines. When I get to the portrait, I'm going to use this and am really excited to get to it.
What do you think about the darkest value I've used here? Did I find the right spots for it, should there be more of it? I think I need to train my eye to better find the edges in my reference.
What a great excercise, I'm learning a lot (!) and it's fun, even though I share the frustration I see in some comments here. Part of the process, I suppose, and part of the fun :D.
10mo
Nice pear! It's funny how little changes to what we're used to can make some big differences! As for the darkest value, I think the cast shadow of the stem and at the bottom of the pear are your darkest points, definitely darker than anything on the body of the pear.
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This is my attempt. I had no fruits at home, lol. The shadows and lights in reality are a bit different from the photo.
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I screwed up. I screwed up BAD.
It was supposed to be simple, supposed to be five values and sharp edges. I thought, hey, I do painting, I can thumbnail whole scenes with just four!
As you can tell, I am full of hubris.
My brain just wouldn't be satisfied and confident in my decisions, because I wanted to capture a likeness. Pears don't have likenesses. Pears are pears.
So, my brain essentially pushed me, by my need to make sure that the shapes were accurate rather than my shapes being able to fit atop a sensible structure, to make it into a finished painting with a decent enough likeness, and THEN, to even QUALIFY as DOING THE ASSIGNMENT, I added a new layer, and painted my new, better shapes on top of THAT. Ya know, like a normal person. And I only used four values. and some of the shapes STILL came out self-important and noodly.
I have attached the "painting" version and the "shape" version i did afterwards. Burn me to a crisp.
10mo
Hey Jason, I think capturing likeness is a bit beyond this lessons focus, so I wouldn't sweat that. You did kind of nail the focus, becoming confident with limitations. Something interesting to point out / think on... in your "rendered" picture you have the highlight on the nose, but not in the simplified. Also although you show 4 values in your key, I count 5. We'll save the burning for now ;) Nice job.
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I’d be curious to know which project levels I should try to stick to based on these drawings :). I am always flipping back and forth between thinking I’m using specific skills to cover for weaknesses in my fundamentals and thinking I don’t push myself to apply the fundamentals in new ways. I’m
Mostly fine with how the portrait turned out but the pear is not my best by far. Both of them I got a little carried away with and just starting shading with more values than I was supposed to which is unfortunate but I definitely benefitted from making myself start with just a few before I got carried away. I often lose track of where my hand is resting when using the tripod grip, hence the smudged paper, which I’m slowly working on.
10mo
I think doing both is a great idea for everyone that wants to. There's certainly no barrier of entry to the second project. Doing both can often show us some of our own weaknesses / strengths we might not have noticed if we'd only done one. Sometimes it's the "easy" stuff that's really tough. For feedback, I think defining your values visually will help, in the pear and the portrait some of your values are hard to differentiate. Nice job on both
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Here’s my grapefruit! I am very grapeful ;)
10mo
lovely grapefruit. For feedback, I would say your highlight could be better defined (in the photo it's brighter at the top front than the actual entire top)
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Any feedback appreciated !