Accuracy Guide Lesson
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Drawing Fundamentals: Accuracy, Values, & Light

The Accuracy Guide

Accuracy Guide Lesson

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Accuracy Guide Lesson

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Dorian Iten
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@bonnieblue
Just watched your accuracy guide lesson Dorian, a very creative way to remember & use these concepts. Ingenious. Thank you, I really enjoyed this video & look forward to applying my glasses.
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Jesse Harless
I had a blast doing this course it was extremely difficult to draw my daughter. Kids in general are difficult for me. I gave it a shot and this is what I ended up with.
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Isaiah
I am preparing line art to use in the "Values from Imagination" lesson. I thought the dark blue and white stripes of this vehicle's paint scheme would be excellent for testing out the "Halfway to Black" method. I figured that I could get additional benefit from it, if I made the line art into an accuracy exercise, also. For this exercise, I photographed a diecast model from several angles. I selected the angle I liked the most and traced it. I then used the trace as a basis for my accuracy exercise. I printed it and attempted a 1:1 copy using mechanical pencil. I believe this exercise is a step back from the one I did for the "Accuracy Guide Demonstration". For one, I gave in to perfectionism even more here than I had in my previous accuracy exercise. I took both more time, and many more measurements, than is recommendable. Nevertheless, I was less accurate than before. (Particularly around the area of the exhaust pipe and rear wheel). Before moving on to the values exercise, I intend to fix the major proportional errors in this line art using the transform and liquify tools. I will also do some cleanup and sculpting of the lines. For future accuracy exercises (really, any drawing I make from reference), I will try to be more organic in my process: less time, fewer measurements, more risk, and more learning.
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Giselle
Practicing with the different "glasses". The creaturizing tip really helps with seeing abstract shapes in the negative space!
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October Comstock
Hi Dorian, I have some questions! Why is it important to identify the implied lines in a piece? How does it help me construct a drawing or make decisions? What are some things I want to look for when practicing this? Thank you!
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Renato Lizarraga
first try
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Ian McMackin
Hello Dorian, Here is my first practice drawing for the Accuracy Guide Lesson 1.3, along with a photo of the subject. Please let me know if there are big problems, am ignoring some basics? Thanks, looking forward to the rest of the class. - Ian
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@lbough
I really like how with a little shading you picked up the muscles in the thigh. The upper part of the figure doesn't show this as well. It's to bad the subject item was created with such a awkward bend at the bicep and elbow juncture. You captured the awkwardness but a smoothing over to just capture the muscle tone I think would make the arm and leg more cohesive. I would have been thrown off by what's going on with the arm in the subject item too. You did a great job on the legs!
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ChÔzen
I think you did a good job, 1 thing that stand out a little bit to me me is the ear part. On the inside of the ear you outlined those small vertical shapes where I think in would be better to fill it in in black only instead..does that make sense? Overall it does seem pretty good to me, your drawing might just be slightly larger than the original but other that than it's just details different. Maybe try making a circle first as a basic reference point as it does seem like a spherical ball. Hope this helps lol
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@cmmorgan60
Good Morning Dorian - I believe you mentioned a PDF file that can be downloaded.. could you please point me to location of that file?
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Neo
2yr
Writing this reply so any new people can see it. Despite the other replies here I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out where the PDF was, because it looks like it's another video in the playlist. Just a tiny book symbol instead of a play button. Feeling silly but mystery solved!
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ChÔzen
It's the accuracy drawing guide
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Anatolij Prihosko
I think its inside the lesson 'Accuracy - Cheat Sheet'
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Cay Carlson
Hello. Just signed up today. I wanted to view the first two videos which did not have a lock icon on them but it brought me to a Video unavailable screen indicating it is a premium video. I was under the impression that part of the courses were free so we could evaluate. Please advice. Cay
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Pavle Selakovic
It is still unavailable...but you can find the video on YouTube...I think it is this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaYhkY_gsc&t=5s
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Katey Jensma
Hi, @Cay Carlson thanks for letting us know about this problem! We are working to fix this ASAP.
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@amekhail
Hi guys I've been drawing since when I was young. Unfortunately, I stopped drawing when I was 14 (I drew a rarely). I'm 22 now and am dedicated to become an artist again. How's this drawing I just drew?
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@juna__
Cool it looks like a mid-century drawings
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@amekhail
from imagination
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@gothamdemon
Hello there! This is the drawing I did for the accuracy lesson. Using the alignement glasses and others to be recreate the photo, and even added a background to make it pop out more. Any feed back is welcomed!
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Natalie Alexopoulou
Thank you so much for putting together this course! I had an issue downloading the pdf as I only got error messages?
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Anjatiana Rakotoniaina
Hello! I did a practice on this lesson. Can I have some critics please? It's a study of Maxim Faivre's painting : Two mother
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Anjatiana Rakotoniaina
Here is another one...Gaetano Chierici - La Maschera study
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Uku Kivisild
Love the first lesson, nice simple ways to practice getting accuracy right. I have previously tried the Bargue method and I found it a completely mind-blowingly boring way to practice accuracy since it took over 2 weeks on stage 1 to get the lines accurate enough (like you said all measurements can be mm off at a time) and all I was doing was constant measuring. Has anybody found any fun ways to put these methods into practice? I know to get better at accuracy you can't just move on when it looks wrong and I am happy to put the work in but rather do it while not burning out. Or is the Bargue method popular because you can always tell quite easily when you haven't been accurate enough? PS: The pictures attached are not 100% accurate because I am working on it still.
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