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@koor
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added comment inDemo - Portraits in Perspective - Level 2
feedback is welcomed
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The perspective from below is so challenging but you nailed it. These have a lot of style. Keep up the good work!
Rémy Bernard
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Asked for help
Hey everyone, I'm 38yo, I've got back to drawing 4 years agoand just finished 2nd year of artschool (I dared !) so I have some practice already. I felt I'm still lacking in fundamentals so here I am during my summer. I've written some comments on my drawings. The apple feels to dark compare to it's shadow. I've had some difficulties placing the first value below light to the actual highlight pops out. I found it hard to make sharp edges, hence simplifying the shape in a rough chiseled sculpture. That's why I'm here !
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Hey @Rémy Bernard! Kudos for keeping up your studying through the summer break. The apple reference is difficult to work from because the lighting is so diffuse. The pears are lit from one light source which creates those distinct shadows. I think you handled it well given the difficulty! Good luck with your studies.
@solobo
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I think I got the claws looking too flat, probably should have foreshortened more and then done curvier cross contour
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17h
I noticed the cross contour lines on the right claw were going the opposite direction. Very small fix. This is a great drawing, it has great rhythm throughout. Great work!
Hanna Looye
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This one was hard, but interesting! I tried making it in watercolor, getting the right values with that medium is pretty hard and it did not work out well. I tried pen, pencil and variations. I am happy with the gouache one and the pencil one. Impressive what other people made. Thank you!
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Really interesting that you kept the dark values concentrated around the face and let the beard fade out in the ink drawing. Super stylish, these are amazing!
Noemie
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I didn't draw for years. Excited to start again with a strong foundation!
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Welcome, good luck with the course!
This is an awesome illustration @sharfi101! Cool idea to break the box with the eyelashes. I think this is successful as is, but my advice would be to follow the form when you're rendering. If you think about the planes of the face as a simplified construction you can invent shadows to create more drama, even if your reference image is blown out. In the image below I darkened the value of the plane that's tilting down (the area between the brow and the eye).
@Melanie Scearce thank you very much! You’re a great artist and I can definitely spot the difference. this is my first time posting stuff here, so it’s much appreciated:) have a great day
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I had the pear exercise on the brain so I went into this trying to simplify and design the shapes with a limited value range. Great project!
Great job! And very interesting to see the steps. Very nice result! Well structured and readable, even seen from a distance or at a small size
Great shapes here, Melanie! I, too, was thinking about the pear and portrait exercise from our first lesson while doing this. Also, for the lay-in, the measuring proportions in the shape section helped.
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Is there a reason that looking up is less intuitive than other angles? I did a couple rooms and tried to experiment with some basic skull constructions. It helps to draw through but I need to slow down as well.
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It may be because we typically are at standing or sitting height. Just not used to looking up at furniture 😁
Ry B
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Anyone else really struggling? I don't know when to make my lines lighter or darker
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It's a process of narrowing down from general to specific, and light to dark. If I would approach this drawing, I would start with a very very light and general "envelope" that maps out the general proportions. You can see I made the shell a bit too tall in my first sketch, so when I moved on to the next step in making things more specific, I adjusted it. I didn't need to erase anything because the envelope is so light it will fade to the back when I place my final lines.
Hope that helps :)
Mon Barker
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3d
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Level 1 attempt. Workflow was lay-in, then thumbnails then could not decide between bottom two thumbnails so did lighter one then converted it to darker one, which ended up being better. Played around with shading a sphere methodology for the end of the nose - mainly to indicate reflected light on underside of nose. Thought I’d then keep working it to level 2 but realised this is not possible - once you get the 5 tones down in these big connected shapes you can’t grade between forms without a ton of erasing. Lesson learned. I’m still a bit puzzled how you’d go from the big shape basic tones to lots of smaller forms with more tones without losing the connectedness. Guess there is a lot of forward planning needed as you work…kudos to those that did this!
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Love the thumbnails, great idea!
