Stan Prokopenko
San Diego, CA
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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Christina Unger
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5d
added comment inProject - Mannequin Hands
Asked for help
Turns out I'm pretty bad at seeing boxes, and not really better at drawing them.
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4d
You're doing a lot better than you're giving yourself credit for. These are really good!
Alain Rivest
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5d
Asked for help
Here's my value scale. I used the suggested pencils (2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B) plus a Mars Lumograph Black 8B for the darker shades.
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4d
Wonderful!
Lesulie
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5d
Asked for help
Level 1 assignment (will attempt lvl 2 later)
From top to botton:
graphite (2h/hb/2b/4b/6b)
ballpoint pen 0.7mm
fine liner 0.3mm
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4d
You can definitely add several more layers to the darker values to extend your range, in both the graphite and ball point.
@omegaduck
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5d
Asked for help
Here is my attempt !
I started with pencil (HB, 2B, 6B)
Then multiple fine liner (I messed up a bit the line weight in both cases)
Following with a single 0.2 fine liner
And I finally tried a 6 blinded value scale
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4d
In all of them except the "single 0.2 pen", the jump from the darkest value to the next one down is too extreme, causing all your lightest values to be very similar.
Pedro Branco
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5d
Asked for help
Here's my attempt:
I used a B and 3B Caran d'ache Technalo for the top scale and a range of 2B, 3B, 5B, 6B and 7B Caran d'ache Grafwood for the bottom scale. Paper is some low grade printer paper.
I feel like the top one came out all right as using just 2 pencils feels a bit easyer to me, but the bottom started getting weird around the 6b transitions. The 6b pencil felt a bit more "grainy" than the 5b and it was a bit hard to judge if I was doing too much or too little at a glance. Meanwhile the 7b was quite comfortable as its only language is dark.
Please tell me if there's something that I can improve so I can get on with doing that.
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4d
I think you can add a few more layers of graphite on those darkest value to extend your range.
zan
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5d
Asked for help
So, turns out I'm missing some of the suggested pencils - don't quite know why i didn't pick them all up - and I think the main issue is the darker one, so the 6B. I felt like I was on good track most of the way through. Started with the darkest 4B, then marched up the scale. Once I got to the last ~3 though it was pretty clear I had no space to keep getting darker, and there wasn't much I could do to push the 4B even darker. The other option of course would be starting light, but I'm fairly happy with the left side of the scale.
Will try again soon, whether I wait to get some more pencil or no, we'll see. :p
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4d
Ya, it's normal for the darkest possible value with your pencil to not be pure black. Start by establishing the darkest value first, and that’ll help guide the others.
Stan Prokopenko
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20d
i have my painting course this semester, i am having alot of problem getting to understand values in between colors leave all the stuff paint mixing, color picking, or exact measurents. i just cant thank you enough for making my life easy, i have done 1 year in fine arts, and i was still sooo unaware about the knowledge you just gave.... i am right now on shapes part but i want to skip so bad to values, because i know i need to undertsand values. Thanks again btw, i have a major busy semester, on top of that a part time job, but still i'll try my best to keep up with atleast this value part.
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19d
I don't have any issue with you doing these value lessons while they come out at the same time as the shape lessons. As long as you have enough time throughout the week to focus on both. As a full time student I would always have at least 2-3 different project i switched between.
Johannes Schiehsl
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20d
You can tell that Stan is expecting another child. The dad jokes level increased expunentially.
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19d
😊
