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8d
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Hey folks! I'm way way behind, working on catching up (hopefully by the next project. Wanted to take some time to work on this one of course - Here's some seals, 1-6. I'll come back with some more (maybe a couple times), but if anyone wants to hand me some critique it'd be much appreciated. Understand if everyone's moved on from here.
zan
7d
Here's some more! - 7 through 12. Did this while watching the #1 demo, Was happy to see I was (mostly) going in the right direction with the couple Stan did too. Top right's kinda meh. I like The small one middle left probably the most.
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24d
Did another attempt while watching this one. Kinda oddly both off and on - parts (his body, the height of his eyes) are way way off, others are close. Oops XD
26d
Gave this one a shot too, but was way, way more off than on the assignment guy. Maybe rushed a bit need to be practicing this a lot more.
1mo
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Long behind on this project, catching up - I'd definitely love critique on this, though of course I can see the main stuff that's off, which should improve a little after doing this more. I think the biggest issue is just how to set up my work space. The image is on my monitor in front of me, but my paper is on my desk, flat, and I wonder how much that very small change in angle contributes.
anyhow, any pointers would be great! thanks
3mo
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Animal Shapes - Just did the first examples. Did *abysmally* in choosing the right space for the sketch, nearly all of them go off the page/overlap, very sorry about that. -_-
Played around with some of them, but I'll do some more and include them here.
4mo
Followed along with this and did my own - *seems* like after this and after the critique video I have a better feeling for how to do these studies, but I can't quite be sure yet I'm executing well - obviously I'm off on a lot of these lines, there's still tons to learn, but I dunno does it at least look approached well? - feeling better but also not terribly confident about it and I'd love some critique.
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4mo
Thank you so much Stan! Definitely appreciate the look even if it's not quite what you were looking for. Had a lot of trouble with them given how dang good those artists are ':D but yeah, I'll definitely give them another go-round. or two. or three.
5mo
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Fun project - I always mean to do more master studies, so my goal now is to try to do some all of May, I'll add here as I go.
4mo
Had to do Iain McCaig
- he's one of if not my very favorite art hero, I'm in awe of how effortless his work is, run right through with gesture, perfect control of detail and value - but never lacking for creativity, or imagination. The tone and atmosphere of the pieces are always captivating. If I could draw like anyone...
that said I don't know that his work is a great pick for this, it's damn hard to replicate that smoothness with such a messy style. I know there's that big stereotype of beginning artists getting caught up in trying to say their style is messy - as someone drawn to that very dearly, I want to mimic this, but without being caught in that trap.... I often feel my natural style is far too neat, so pushing is weird. it's hard, it doesn't look right. But we keep trying.
4mo
Bernie Wrightson
very bad choice for me on a day where I didn't have much time, Wrightson's use of line and shadow is masterful but very overwhelming to study, I mostly don't have a good idea where to begin and being pressed while doing so - bad combination.
5mo
A Heinrich Kley study - didn't have as much time today, so it got a little sloppy near the left (rightmost arm, his left)
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5mo
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If anybody is still looking for references there is a series on Youtube called The Sketchbook Series by Trojan Horse Was A Unicorn, lots of great artist showing their sketchbooks and opinions, and at the end of the interview they do a quick sketch so you can actually see their masterful use of line in action 👌
5mo
Great series - the Iain McCaig one cemented him as one of my favorites ever, the guy is amazing
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5mo
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Please forgive my proportions, I don't have easy access to a printer, so had to do it myself (I used the photo, didn't copy the line art) - think they turned out okay, though obviously the 2nd one had much less room.
Anyhow I'll keep doing these exercises and adding here, this won't be only attempt.
6mo
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So I did the assignment wrong - oops. Note to self: don't go off of memory, re-watch the video before you start. So I got all the Reference photos, did studies of each of those and then did a from-imagination one at the end. So, close, but not quite.
All attached to this are my studies
6mo
And this is the from-imagination. Some stuff I don't like (and would've fixed if I did the assignment right....). He's a little too elongated, I don't like the placement of the front paws... but I'm pretty happy with some of the shapes, esp. the head.
Anyhow, I'll definitely do the assignment again correctly. Oops.
7mo
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Robot one - I did the other two yesterday, but they turned out like garbage - I'm going to redo them soon and include them here. I know my proportions are way off (and the hanging thing is particularly messy...) (Finding it hard to do smaller lines in this style, so everything got gradually bigger as I went) but generally happy with the feeling of the lines, especially in the head area.
7mo
Okay, here's the penguin and the Hand. Proportions still a mess, the bottom half of the penguin is too big, and the arm on the hand is way off (I found that so hard with so little feature to go off of...) But still, much happier with them that my first attempt. I think my Robot is done the best, but these aren't far
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7mo
(Is the compression awful for anyone else? is there a way I can improve this image, it looks fine on google photos...)
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7mo
Day 14 - haven't been happy about what I've done the past couple days, so I wanted to spend some more time today and focus a bit - idk about the cat sketches still. Cats and Bull
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Day 13: Snail Boot Camel.... not a skull bc I had to go do other stuf....
Following along with Stan's critique, but with new images. idk that these are any better than my originals, but it was worth a go
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Day 12: Box Men, Cats, Ball, Mat Puppy
Kinda operating on 'better to do it for consistency than get a good result, bc... eeeugh. The one cat is pretty solid I guess. Just been busy recently.
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Day 11: Cat Cat Cat Ape
Using one of David Coleman's Ape vids from his class. The hips and feet are pretty bad, but the rest is solid I think
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Day 10 - Cats, and a Feather.... which I quickly realized isn't a very good subject for a contour drawing :p
7mo
Day 9 - realized responding to my other post wasn't bumping it up in the list. Ah well.
Heads, Shrooms, Cats, and an Arm. Got back to my old sketchy tendencies with the arm, oops.
7mo
I already draw every day, but I'll try to add a couple more on as I go - Here's a couple of my cat (and one dog). Please ignore the bleedthrough from yesterday's drawing!
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Level 1 - Snail and boots
Sorta ran out of steam on the laces on boot 2, and you can tell - I really like how the shape of boot 1 turned out though (and Apologies for running off the page). I'll give #2 a shot tomorrow
7mo
Level 2 - Camel & Captain. I honestly think the Camel was the easiest of the 4, so I don't know if I messed it up terribly in some way XD. And yeah, I should've started a new page with more room for the captain, I know.
