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3mo
I went to Dollar Tree the other day when passing by to get some of this clay, but didn’t find any. I wonder if it’s in stock a lot or little?
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3mo
Awesome. I’d relish seeing the beeswax added, and details to that.
4mo
This model is outstanding in his proportions. Is he 9 headlengths tall? He’d certainly be 8 head-lengths tall. He’s a delight to see with all the very clear muscular definition and bone and tendon landmarks easy to identify. His tall, masculinely elegant frame is wonderful.
As artists, what use do we have of these images as references for work?
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I’m studying line, as an assignment, and copying this work (Untitled, c. 1984, Graphite on paper) of Étienne, a Chicago born artist who was contemporary with Tom of Finland and they liked each other’s work.
This assignment was to study the way a chosen master does line. So delightful to me is this scene, that I selected it to draw.
My rendition has not been rendered exact to the original, as you might suspect, but I find I’ll not wish to adopt Étienne’s means of line, I think I’ll prefer the shading that Tom does instead. The content is what pleased me most here, seeing that bare naked, exquisitely toned, and muscular soldier’s gluteal perfection. Lol. Few things are as beautiful, to me.
The overall piece looks crowded, sloppy, and disjointed in terms of foreground and background all feeling to be one and it makes it hard to read the scene. Between the two artists I’ve thus far researched for this assignment, Tom of Finland will definitely be the guy I’ll prefer to study line with, as his drawings read so much clearer. His line and shading make his scenes much easier on the eyes to make out what is going on. Dare I delve into that content though? I’ll have to decide.
My copy on the right, graphite, charcoal and ball point pen on paper.
The original is on the left, by Etienne, sourced on page 94 of of the book, “Tom of Finland, The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero,” by F. Valentine Hooven
4mo
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After going through some of the shape lessons as well, I’m surprised to come back to this lesson feeling some improvement. Line study after Aaron Blaise
Shaun
4mo
Nicely done. Love your lines and their variation.
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5mo
Hi, I’ve been practicing my depth and form drawing skills and I’d like to share my latest attempt. I started with graphite and then used charcoal to emphasize the dark lines. (I tried using charcoal from the beginning, but it was too difficult for me.) I hope that people can tell the depth and form in my work. I would appreciate any feedback you may have. Thank you!
By the way, before I learned from Proko, I can't and don't know how to draw shoes, but I can did it now! Thank you!
4mo
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Oh man. I just had a taste of soft charcoal pencil that wouldn’t take to the paper that had already been darkened by a normal graphite pencil.
That exercise made me happy inasmuch as I didn’t trace but drew from observation. I felt I would challenge myself and didn’t have a robust way to trace, anyway.
4mo
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I felt I needed some more practice with line wight. I apply line wight fine when I doing exercises to hone it, but after Im done with the exercise I don't think about it so it doesn't get into the drawing. I think some of it is that often I get lost in thought while I draw especially if Im working on my own project. It's kind of frustrating because I'll be working on a drawing and then I realize that something is off and most of the time its the lines or line quality. Can anyone relate?
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Hi, I tried creating a character based on fox. Looking forward to any feedback. Loved doing this project.
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Dragons and lizards, was my interest here. Fun exercise. Maybe later I’ll go back and add in scales and work further on this.
4mo
Stan, I highly appreciate this.
I’ve had a bit of a sense of the “mystical” happen within me over the last decade where mystics, beginning in 2023, came out of the woodwork into my path. I won’t go into all of that, except to say that at one point, for months, I felt or sensed a “brooding” of a spirit or message that seemed to keep saying something to the effect of “consider the little children,” and “except ye become as one of these little ones ye can in knowwise inherit the kingdom of heaven.”
Well, I started to watch the toddlers in my life and observe them closely. This was what I needed to figure out? What were their attributes?
They (little children) live in the moment, they don’t think of tomorrow nor remember yesterday. They are spontaneous. They love fun and exploring, imagination. They are not saddled or schooled in dogmas. They are endlessly keep trying to walk, talk, and we adore them for it all.
In my late teens I went to Spain to live a few years, as a Mormon missionary. I had immense insecurities (like most teens do, as opposed to their toddler selves), one of which was the fear of looking stupid or foolish. I loathed knowing I would be reduced to look foolish in speaking a new language. I therefore rarely spoke. I would labor in my mind trying to construct a message correctly before I would speak it. By the time I would have looked up a word in a dictionary or figured my sentence out, the conversation had gone on. My fear of looking foolish was a trap.
Then, contrast that to my going to Europe in 2017, first to Spain for over a month. Gone were my inhibitions, my fears, my insecurities. I was now much more a child and embraced playfulness, embracing the childlike fun to speak foolishly and with lots of errors, accents, etc. In that different mindset, oh boy, what a difference. How fun. How much more fun I was to be around. (We all love to observe toddlers and how much fun they can be, playful and cute in their errors of speech, etc).
As to my experience when a missionary, I was not fun to be around with my fear and insecurity. The missionaries that were rule breakers, who were Lackadaisical and east going, playful like little children, who just blurted out their broken speech, in all its glorious error, drew people in. Their personalities and playfulness were fun. They were successful people persons. They learned the language very fast compared to those like me who were steeped in insecurities and fear of looking the fool.
Man, I’ve had fun traveling and being of a mindset of being playful and easy going, to be more like a toddler. What a difference
So, your pep talk here is well received by me as I observe my very poor capacity to draw well, but I will get better and you’ve reminded me of that fact.
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4mo
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I appreciate you whose job it is to give feedback. Thanks for your time and focus to give critique.
I’ll move forward with watching Stan’s critique videos and likely learn a ton more and see how it is I’m not yet giving stroke and line the focus that it needs. Lots of things to learn and it’s fun that I’m being introduced to all of the various aspects of this process.
4mo
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2023/12/24. Good morning everybody. Here’s another torso study. Thanks and have a good Xmas eve.
4mo
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Fun. Listening while I cook. I’ll have to submit my egg later.
These comic poses are really fun to draw! The dramatic angles and foreshortening were challenging... so I worked through a bunch of them trying to get their basic gestures sorted out first....then went back and tried to define a few a bit more. I started finding a flow that seemed to work after the first few...but they are still pretty messy. (I was really liking the poses and wanted to draw more of them vs spending the time cleaning them up). I'd definitely like to try more of these poses and learn how to bring them to the comic art level... those Ryan Benjamin drawings above are awesome!!! Thanks for a fun week of challenges Proko!...I didn't get enough sleep but I did learn some good stuff with all the drawing. :)
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Thank you @Proko for this opportunity to draw with an amazing artists it given me a lot! This is my sketches for the last day 1/2/10 min and 25 min, so coolest poses ! An amazing challenge!
4mo
My attempt to draw a portrait from 12 day challenge. I spent 30 min on this. Loved it.
4mo
2 min warm ups and then some 10-15 mins, and Spidey :D (+10 min for him). Thank you Proko for the challenge, it was fun! It was really eye-opening to do something completely different from the usual stuff I do. And Happy Holidays! ^^
4mo
Oh my goodness. Love your pieces. Hard to fathom you can crank those out in so short a time. Very nice.