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It really helps to pull from your experiences when you're drawing from imagination. I worked out some shapes first using reference from the kiki pictures on the left. Then I started to think about some cats that I know in real life. I thought about how upset my roommate's cat gets when you don't play with him and that gave this little guy a lot of attitude.
@brimarie
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Dear Melanie
This is a wonderful approach that I want to try out right away.
Your cat has become super great and very expressive, I love it🐈⬛
Flo
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Hahaha. I definitely can relate to my cat. This really fits the mood of a grumpy slightly annoyed cat. The foot sells it to me. Love it!
Art Stark
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Wow!
@toph
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The end result is fantastic
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I really love your explorations on the first page, especially the drawing on the bottom. His eye is so expressive!
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Arrows Project!
Thanks so much for the demo; fitting the arrows into boxes made them a lot easier to draw in perspective.
I drew these from memory but forgot to draw any of the arrows going back in space :(
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Love the layout!
There's a lot of great advice in this thread. Experiment with the gesture lines that you draw for this pose. I think a zig zag shape could help you find that energy that you're looking for.
Brian
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I really struggled with this one. I had a few tries on my own and wasn’t happy with them. After watching the demo videos, I tried again and was a little happier with the results, but I see all of these other submissions and they’re SO good that I get discouraged. I’ve always wanted to draw better, but it has always eluded me.
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Looking at other students' work can also be encouraging to see what's possible with consistency :) I agree with @Oscar, there are improvements between each drawing you've done here. The same with your last post. You're in a position to learn a lot, which is a wonderful place to be. Many students are afraid to attempt the boots and you did a great job with them. Keep it up 👍
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Spent a couple hours shading some spheres. It was surprisingly fun, although I think this assignment would be good to space out over a couple of days. By the 5 minute sphere I felt like I could shade a sphere with my eyes closed.
The untimed drawing ended up being around 55 minutes. The spheres got progressively smaller from there 😂
I had a difficult time separating the core shadow value from the occlusion shadow value enough.
All of them look perfect! Reducing the size helped you achieve a similar finish in the 5 min one as the others.
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Hey, you did a great job! One thing I would point out is the dark outline around the highlight -- you want to try to use the hard edge of your midtone value to define the separation, like in this example here. It's difficult to do with lighter values but a great exercise in pencil dexterity.
@jjones
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Had some fun with some different creatures, plus an angry hippo! The hippo is my favorite of the bunch.
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GREAT line quality!
