Pamela Dowie
Pamela Dowie
United Kingdom
Graphic Designer
Pamela Dowie
I like your drawing a lot, although I would add some more white highlight areas maybe on the tank. The sky should be lighter than the ground I think too.
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Scott Diesing
Practiced head/neck/shoulders like crazy. Then did ten or so torsos. Then found out I don't have room for legs and arms. :) Need to buy some large paper.
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Pamela Dowie
i did that too :))
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Pamela Dowie
I am getting to understand how to do this, and will do more of course. I didn't want to miss the deadline and will try to add a few more today when I finish work.
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Pamela Dowie
another one I did today
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Martijn Punt
This exercise was very challenging and fun. The drawings attached were done in a couple of sessions using A4 paper and a 2B pencil. My goals were to try and use the overhand grip as much as possible, to get reasonable proportions and to find connections. Some of the drawings were quicker than others, but in general i tried to get the main lines in under 5 minutes. The good: - Proportions are not too bad, only in the 2nd attempt of pose #10 i measured in more detail because the first attempt i went over the paper. - I tried to find connections and flow between body parts in some cases, i left in lines connecting them to show my thinking process. The bad: - I'm not happy with the line quality, obviously need to work on that. - The gesture could be more exaggerated, for example pose #7, attempt #4 i could have him leaning back more, and the right leg should be bent more (i had the most trouble with this pose).
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Pamela Dowie
lovely work Martijn and very inspiring!
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Pamela Dowie
Here is my assignment - just four for now and will do some more later.
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Pamela Dowie
pushing the gesture a little more...
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Pamela Dowie
I have continued with the assignment using some other animal heads. I like the direction I am going but still need to keep on this assignment. I am enjoying it more now that I am beginning to see the simple shapes and not just the outline of the head before I draw.
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Pamela Dowie
Finally had time to come back to finish the Bush Baby variations
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Pamela Dowie
My variations on the seal head in digital and from my sketchbook
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Pamela Dowie
I made some variations on the giraffe in my sketchbook and in digital. Do some more soon.
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Pamela Dowie
Here is my assignment- I did do a few others and like some of the other comments on here I found it hard, although I can see with practice it will speed up my decision making and stop me from continually redrawing. I look forward to that day!
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Pamela Dowie
Great 3d work Stan! You are amazing :)
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The guy from BluishDot
Hello everyone! I just wanted to share a quick thought I had on finding new shapes. This worked especially well whenever I felt stuck or uninspired. All I did was find small nooks in my sketchbook (spaces that resulted between drawings) and I tried to fill those with a design. Most of the time, these empty nooks had such a random shape that the results ended up being quite interesting (like in the example below with a horizontally stretched triangle for a monkey head). I know this idea is nothing revolutionary, but for me, it’s a good one to keep in the back of the mind when doing these exercises.  Also, thanks for the demos! These really help a lot!
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Pamela Dowie
great tip! Thank you
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Pamela Dowie
These are my additional hippo images
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Pamela Dowie
these are a couple more of my ox heads with the last chicken from earlier. Think I must be the slowest in this assignment :))
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Pamela Dowie
Here are my three variations on the chicken - still have to do the other two animals :S
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Pamela Dowie
I have revisited this excerise using the level two reference. I can see a couple of areas I am tempted to redraw, but have resisted :)
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Pamela Dowie
Here is my Norman Rockwell study. I found that he made the eye a square shape to contrast with the loose flowing lines very interesting.
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Pamela Dowie
Here are my two line drawings. Thanks! :)
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Pamela Dowie
Here is my assignment - I had problems uploading from my phone before…
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Pamela Dowie
Day 12 - had to make this a quick one unfortunately - had hoped to draw outside today. I will take my sketch book - hopefully there will be an opportunity…
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Pamela Dowie
Day 9 nearly didn’t make this one and managed to do in the evening. Great challenge!
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