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added comment inDemo - Simplify Snail and Boots to CSI
Using a lighter pencil for the initial sketch stage is something I'll try going forward; you can see that I used a dark pencil (2B) for all steps of the drawing, and so:
1) Lines couldn't be fully erased, making the final product messier.
2) I was more hesitant to put lines down. So things took much longer. Overall I took 4 hours on the boots and 1 on the snail.
I think with sketching lightly, I'll be able to get the basic form down, and figure out where the key proportion landmarks are faster. Also, drawing large is a good challenge. (The second snail picture, I made to further try to simplify the image into C, S, and I curves, but also drew significantly smaller, making things easier.)
@sillysniper17
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Here's my pear:
One thing that is very tricky is pencil control. Like:
1) Shading a region and ending up with a clean rectangle without scribbly edges.
2) Shading an exact value.
... are both pretty tricky, and you can tell I kind of cheated the edges by drawing them, as otherwise I would get a blurry transition. Here's to improving fine motor control both in my wrist and my arm, haha.
So after watching the demo and re-doing the assignment, here's the follow-up picture. 2 things that helped were:
1) Using more than 1 pencil. (Lost my 2B so I used a 3H, HB, and 4B) This really helped with the range of light to dark.
2) Reserving the darkest black for the core of the shadow. I think this made the final piece more accurate, but it did reduce the number of colors I could use for everything else down to 4. Pretty tricky.
That said, maaaaaaaan is maintaining consistent shades difficult. A slight increase in pressure and now you've got sections of 1 shade that are slightly off.
