Also one more drawing that wouldn't fit in my last post
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Grace Mounce
One more sketch! Sorry it's kind of a lot. While I was drawing this bottle, I took pictures every 15 minutes to gauge my time management. Would anybody have any thoughts on whether I am spending too much time on proportions and not enough time on value? Thank you all!
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Dan B
Good work! Value and proportion are both important. I depends on which you are most focused on at the moment? You can do both in order: timed outline in proportion, then timed filling of values. My only slight critique for proportions is that the angle of the lid is slightly off, then for values is to make sure you have a bit clearer light and shadow separation in your tones.
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Grace Mounce
Thanks Dan! Hearing the light/shadow separation from you and John gives me confidence to choose this as the next thing to work on. I so appreciate your advice!
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Hi Grace, I think you might have skipped a step in there; mapping the shadows; i.e. separating the lights from the darks. Squinting my eye at your reference I definitely see shadow shapes that are missing. If you do have them then their values are too similar to your mid-tones and are not standing out. You might want to also rethink or recheck your value range as well? Also, be careful not to depend on lines to define your shapes. Just some thoughts. Cheers!
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Grace Mounce
Thank you so much John! I really want to push the light/dark separation in my sketches, so I'll be sure to work on it for the next ones. And shadow shapes! I get lazy there :) I'll be working on that next time, too. You've really helped me out.
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