Zetagé
Santiago, Chile
An older illustrator and writer, born in 1985. I've been drawing all my life, but started the dream at 35. Dreams die only if you let them to! [ZGé]
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4d
added comment inCritique - Learning to Sketch from Imagination
Here’s my project. I finished it before watching either this video or the demo, as I wanted to go fresh.
It was hard to come up with at first, since I’m more used to drawing humans (and cute girls :) ). I’ve always liked cats, so when the assignment said to create a character based on an animal, I immediately thought of one. Now, the problem was that cats are very popular, so I had to try not to be influenced by other cat designs out there. I tried several images, but what really helped in the end was studying a cat’s skeleton (since I’m learning to draw people, I’m more familiar with using the human skeleton for construction lines). I also wanted it to be a robot, because of a story I’m working on. In the end, I ended up being influenced by my love for anime and video games, and I created a robotic anime-style kitty inspired by Saint Seiya and Mega Man. I think it still needs a loooot of work before I can use her in my story, but it’s a start.
I'm sharing both the process I followed before coming with a final product and some of the images I used as reference (most I found them on Pinterest. The skeleton ones are from Google and Wikipedia).
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14h
Wow. This looks awesome. You took this assignment to a whole new level. You designed a really cool character.
I think your cat character could be brought even further if you wanted to open up the pose. Give them some action.
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8d
Asked for help
Hi! Sharing what I did. I hope I did the assignment this time, as I haven't watched the demo yet.
Trying again after the demo. It's really hard to re-train your brain into NOT detailing that much >_>
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12d
I'm still getting confused about how to simplify things. Sometimes I think I've gone too far, but then I watch the demo and realize I haven't gone far enough. I still need to wrap my head around it. Hopefully, the 2-week drawing challenge will help me with that.
Here are the boots and the snail I drew before watching the demo. As for the boots, I fell into every single "trap" without even realizing it xD
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13d
On the left: my first attempt at this, which ended in failure (...and it strongly reminded me of the badly drawn Sasuke meme, so of course I had to draw that too, lol). I did it before watching the demo, using graphite pencils.
On the right: my second attempt, made after watching the demo. This time I used Touch brand alcohol-based markers—because I wanted to get some practice with them!
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24d
My levels 1 and 2. Made before watching the demo. I guess I tried to follow the shape of the pear a little too much...
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2mo
Hi. Which course should I start with? This one or Figure Drawing Fundamentals?
Thanks.
I would say the drawing basics without a doubt.
I found the figure drawing fundamentals slightly too hard for me as a beginner, I was too slow in the assignments, but the portrait course was great and rewarding, I would recommend the portrait course if you want to try out drawing and if you’re not sure if you want to learn seriously, it will give you confidence in a few days of practice.
But the drawing basics course is the course I needed the most, it’s the course I would recommend the most by far.
It’s an “everything” course on drawing, easy to understand, entertaining, with a lot of beginner friendly projects.
It’s my perspective but the basics course is just a gem.
