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Darin
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14h
Hey Stan, one comment you made was suggesting that a student add cross contour lines to help indicate the shape of objects. One thing I have been struggling with is adding cross contour lines that blend into the overall image. I feel like often my cross contours lines just look like cross contour lines, they stand out as artificial looking. More experienced artists seem to be able to add lines that function as a cross contour while still blending to the image. Beside practice and experience is there a trick to adding cross contours that blend in more naturally? I first started struggling with this with the tree house assignment and trying to make the tree trunks look rounded, without looking like they just have a string tied around them.
@pedrobranco
7h
While I'm not Stan, I can say that that falls into the realm of rendering. More experienced artists find ways to imply the form through details for example in the hammer, you can add a wood texture to the hammer handle and imply the shape of the form through that. Or in the blowtorch you can draw a sign saying "flammable" around the gas bottle to imply the cylindrical nature of the bottle.
There's no one way of doing this, you can also imply this through shading. It ends up being up to you. In this exercise I wouldn't worry since it's not the point but for personal projects check out rendering, shading or just tap your imagination. I believe I've seen one where the artist implies the form of branches by having vines wrap around the trees, just to hammer home how creative you can be with this.
Man I've got to work on detailing my stuff...
3d
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My submission for this practice module.
I didn't like my performance with the 3rd, 10th and 11th pose so I did them again. Even then the 3rd one just gave me a fair bit of trouble, I really scrambled around.
As always Caran D'ache technalo 3b on standard 4A printer paper.
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Today's submission.
I'm having a hard time controlling the pencil today, maybe I'm not feeling it. Will definitely do this again tomorrow and post it here.
Caran d'ache technalo 3b 779 on simple A4 printer paper
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Here are my submissions. I feel like I may have over done this.
No. 16's line of action could be observed from the model's body but I apparently went with a simpler line.
Using a Caran d'ache Technalo 3B 779 on a standard 4A printer paper.
Am I doing this right? I'm aware that I didn't quite remember what the arms were doing correctly but I think this is kind of right.
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Still new to this method. As I was following along, I realized I made his nose too long, like Squidward, so I had to readjust the proportions.
20d
Great job though more than a long nose, you put the ears in different positions.
When drawing symmetry, don't be afraid of drawing the help lines through from one side to the other.
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24d
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Here are my submissions, hope I'm on time. Even though I saw the assignment early, I seem to be having a lot of issues getting myself in gear, I don't know if it's the heat but I'm so sluggish that I barely do some drills in the morning and call it for the day.
Anyway I rushed these a lot though I feel like I've done a decent job over all. The blowtorch became a fire extinguisher. Stuff that I know is much easier to draw from memory than stuff I'm looking at for the first time, the blowtorch and the meat grinder kind of passed by me. Apart from that I'm a bit bummed out at my performance drawing details.
The distortions on some of the items are intentional. And I have a lot of trouble drawing cylinders and circles still.
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1mo
And in the next lesson, sculpting the human figure with Stan!
Thank you for the critiques as always.
2mo
I guess the reason that i am confused about some of the posts is because I didn't really imagine the plane and was too focused on what I saw in the reference. I am also not sure about what looks good and what does not when making some decisions. Thx Stan. Heading to redo some of them.
2mo
Also bear in mind that there's a certain degree of subjective interpretation with the forms. There's really no fully "right" answer to any of these only degrees of "correct" as body parts such as the upper torso system change shape depending on factors such as musculature and the "stress" of the pose. As long as you interpret the landmarks and the gesture correctly then your torso boxes should be fine.
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