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Wenhan Lee
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added comment inProject - Simplify from Observation
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Hello everyone. I have been drawing leisurely for 5 years, but I had to learn the hard way that I did not practice the fundamentals enough. So here I am, at the drawing basics course.
Anyway, here are my attempts. I'm a little proud of 1st and 2nd images. The 3rd image…is actually my *first* attempt at this project, but I just wanted to put this out there so you can see my progression.
Please critique my 1st and 2nd images, thank you.
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It looks like you have a very good understanding of simplification, shapes and values. This is advanced work. It's cool to see your progress as well, thanks for sharing!
Something that might help you is to squint at the image. It helps reduce the subtle value shifts so you can see and interpret the major shapes. Your pear drawing looks great when you squint at it. The portrait looks good overall, but the shadow shape under the cheekbone sticks out to me a bit more than it does in the reference image. I made that shape a bit bigger and put a gaussian blur filter on it to see the overall effect. You may see other things you want to adjust using this technique. Hope that is helpful to you!
Project Drawing From Observation After watching Demo.
I must say this that this is the beginning of the course but even so far this is helping me to draw once again and feeling confident in myself. Can't wait to keep improving.
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Keep up the sketching! Your line quality is improving very quickly.
@smileylemon
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This is my CSI Assigment, Snail and Skull were done without looking at the demos. Camel and boots were done after watching the first demo and giving myself feedback
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These are perfect! Well done with the laces on the boots. Your lines feel a bit tighter and scratchy in your camel drawing but your overall line quality is looking good.
@mcminnjesse
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Phew! Well, I'm about a million days late after taking a break from art, but I was pleased to see my skills haven't atrophied too much.
This was a great exercise to start drawing again. I'm tempted to say it feels like one of the most fundamental / important exercises of them all? I feel like if all you did was this one exercise, you could eventually learn how to draw pretty much anything by working your way up to more and more complex forms.
Attempt 1 (fireplace): I based this one off of real-world reference, a little model fireplace I have. I think I did a pretty good job overall, though I messed up the proportions of the fireplace in both angles (my drawing is too long / squat), plus I messed up the angles of the lines in the below shot - the lines should be getting more horizontal as they approach the horizon line, not less! I used line width and darkness to add some atmospheric perspective.
Attempt 2 (bunny): This took FOREVER. I think I tried about 3 or 4 different ways of breaking the rabbit into forms, trying to hit on something that was boxy enough to replicate without being too robotic. I'm pretty happy with it overall, especially how the line weight came out.
Attempt 3 (lizard): I tried 2 new things for this one: first, I didn't use an outer (containing) box, and second, I tried changing the lizard's pose for the second image, not just the viewing angle. I don't know if lizards sit like that, but whatever. This was a lot of small, narrow boxes and I don't know if I got all the angles right, but I think the overall impression is pretty effective. This also took ages... basically an entire day!
Overall, this was a great exercise and I hope to revisit it again in the future once I'm caught up. I'd also like to revisit this once I've learned a little more about shading - I think this would be a good shading exercise once I know what I'm doing in that area.
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Welcome back! I think this level of finish is perfect for this exercise. Marshall made a great point in the video that spending a lot of time on finishing these with detail doesn't help you progress very fast when it comes to understanding the form in 3D space; doing lots of iterations with this level of detail is the way to go when you're starting out.
Your linework is looking good; I agree that the variations in line weight you used look awesome. Good luck with the course!
Michael
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Hi, Absolute beginner here. Please critique my attempt at the pear before watching the demo.
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@Michael, this is a good pear 👍 I wouldn't have known you were an absolute beginner if you hadn't mentioned it. I wanted to share this image of the properties of light with you, since I think something you can work on is improving the design of your value shapes.
There is a whole section later on that covers value and light & shadow, but this is a very simple introduction that hopefully helps you design with more information. Specifically, I think the core shadow will be more successful as a simple shape instead of spots on the pear. I included a draw over of what I mean. Overall, really great job with this project!
Lau Dabo
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Here's my assignment, turned out it was more challenging than I though it would be! definitely felt more confortable after the twentieth seal... but good practice exercice... I feel like I will come back to it :) the last page is Level 2, from imagination, which could use some improvement...
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Awesome seals!
Jessica Dodd
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Jumped into this blind before watching his video approaching it. I haven't done an excercise like this in a long time, and approached it oddly. I started with construction like I was drawing and then painting the midtone and doing everything above and below that. After about 30 minutes of iterating onto it I got to this point.
I definitely need to recover a more methodical approach to starting.
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Finding reference images with more concentrated directional light, like the reference image included in the downloads, might make your job a bit easier here. The lighting in these images are quite diffuse, which means soft, even light that reduces shadows and highlights. You'll struggle to get a full value range in these images. This lighting is great for headshots because it's flattering but not so much for designing distinct value shapes.
You might find this tool interesting to experiment with: https://www.proko.com/values. You did a great job in your second drawing finding the mid tone shapes despite the lighting challenge. You improved a lot between your first and second attempts. Keep up the good work 👍
Daniel
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I didn't had a specific artist for line work, but browsing through the references the sketches by David Malan caught my eye for his line work.
I chose this because of how mesmerizing it has to see the convention of light thin kind of invisible lines on the light points on the glasses vs the dark thick lines on the shadows. also the amount of details felt like a challenge.
Overall I learned a lot and even did an after analysis of the points of dark vs light and thin vs thick and I can definitely see the correlation and understand why he chose those lines for this sketch.
Open for feedback!
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Awesome notes! Dave Malan is truly a master, there's a lot to learn by studying his work.
