Melanie Scearce
Virginia
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added comment inThe 6 Types of Joints
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I look forward to your feedback!
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Perfect studies! Not a joint out of place. Nicely done :)
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Finally!!! Here's my first try to the 1st assignment along side a drawing that I would redo when I reach the end of my sketchbook to see how much progress I made.
Based on the drawing and the my assignment work, what do you see needs work? Do you think I should not use the grayscale filter for my drawings?
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I love your idea to make a splash page for this course and to redraw it at the end! That's awesome. Great first assignment 👍 Good luck with the rest of the course.
The greyscale filter is fine as long at it's not changing the values. I'm wondering if it's lightening the darker values? If not, you could work on increasing your value range by making those darker values a bit darker, closer to black for your darkest value. Overall awesome work!
Shubhi Mohta
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The right one is my initial attempt. I think in the left one I messed up with values
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The background is pretty close to the value of the pear on that side, if you bump the background down a bit in value it won't feel as flat. These are great pears, nicely done!
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Haha I love the little characters. Nice work!
@wokka22
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I've been doing gestures a couple of days now, here are a few pages, feedback is very welcome
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These are looking good 👍 You have a good handle on the concept of squash and stretch in the torso and your figures are dynamic as a result. I think you can apply the same energy to the arms and legs in these drawings; the singular line works but doesn't provide much information if you were to continue refining these poses.
Be intentional about your use of straights and curves; straights represent structure and weight, and curves counterbalance the stiffness of the structure to form dynamic shapes. When you're working on these quick gestures, a straight line can be used to show a very simplified rhythm which can be defined more by the specific rhythms later.
You're on the right track with these! Hope this is helpful to you.
Andrew Kovachik
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I've been doing a lot in the perspective part of the course which has been quite difficult for me so I've been slowing down a fair bit in terms of new stuff. So I wanted to return to a project that I had a lot of fun with. I did my best to apply some of my new knowledge of perspective to this portrait. It was actually a fairly easy example as the the strands of hair appear roughly to be equal lengths and so they create a face plane to use as reference.
As usual I had the proportions of the brow line higher than it was in the reference but less so than I had before. I also seem to have issues laying in the position of the ears, but in this case I did get the hight of the ear correctly. I then decided to do a very rough lay in of value. I started in a lot of value on the right side of the face but I didn't like where it was going so I stopped there. It actually created an interesting contrast to the portrait which I've come to like. I'm excited to to get to the shading portion of the course but doing my best to appreciate all the perspective portion.
Also I should add that the image was sourced from Proko's "Portraits and Expressions Reference Bundle." I decided to get it as I was struggling to find high quality images with camera angles and expressions that I find interesting. There are many examples of extremely emotive faces which I have also tried but at the moment didn't do a great job of doing correctly. I think I'm finding that the more extreme the expression is the more important small deviations are.
Whereas in a portrait like this that is in a resting face I think that a small deviation say in the width of the mouth may just make it appear as if the model is smirking for instance. But a small deviation in the mouth in an already exaggerated expression can take the portrait to looking unphysical.
@sosoph
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Hi :). I drew a few from imagination and a few using reference. I was wondering if I pushed things a bit too far in some cases. For example, I'm not sure it was accurate to show a bit of the top plane in number 3. What do you think? Thank you!
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The overall shape of #3 the way you have it looks great, but I think the other corner of the top plane would make more sense to show if at all. It's so close to being flat it could go either way in my opinion. Overall really good stuff @sosoph!
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Your proportions aren't bad at all! I think it feels worse than it is because the distribution of the shadows is a bit top-heavy. Since the light source is coming from the top we can expect there to be more shadow presence towards the bottom. Removing some shadow value from the top area and adding more shadow value to the bottom is a super quick fix that makes a big difference.
Darth Illustrator
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Project Organising line weight
Hierarchy Method and Light and Shadow method.
struggling to transition line from light to dark. I draw a light line and then come and dark the parts of line needed to be dark, making a abrupt change.
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Looking good @Darth Illustrator! The transitions can be smoothed out by using tapered strokes. You can also try varying the line weight at certain points on the line by increasing or decreasing pressure on your pencil. This creates an interesting visual effect of deepening the skin folds.
