Critique - Organizing Line Weight

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Stan Prokopenko

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Critique - Organizing Line Weight

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

945

Let's dive into your "Organizing Line Weight" submissions! In this critique I'll look through both level 1 and level 2 projects and discuss how to improve line weight issues.

teolindroos

1mo

Thank you so much for the critique! Really valuable information and clicked somethought about my design/process. These few nuggets you take me to another level! ⬆️⬆️ Thank you so much, I appreciate it!

Eric A

1mo

Thank you Stan for your critique and advice. I was very excited and nervous to see something I did in a critique video. I have watched both David Finch and Ryan Benjamin’s videos before, I am a fan of both of their works. I found the Proko David Finch video on How to Cross Hatch for Comics very helpful and watched it multiple times, even replicating what he did to my best. I tried tackling the rhino and cross hatch it again but got frustrated with my results, I’m trying to slow down, focus on quality, and follow David’s advice. This is my progress so far, along with my other attempts.

Jen Trader-Morgeson

1mo

I thought my rhinos were pretty decent until this haha XD. I learn so much from these and the demo videos! Much more fun to be had learning and practicing.

Tony Zhang

1mo

Thanks for the critique Stan! I will do better with storytelling!

Sarneth

1mo

Thanks for critique 🥰

Edo Moya

1mo

Yes! I'm so happy with the plants haha I'm satisfied with the result, thank you for the comments and feedback, I was definitely pushing the line thickness on purpose to see how far I could go 👀 just kidding, now I understand that I can go too far hehe, noted ✅

Claudia Finelle

1mo

thank you for the critique.

Tuija Kuismin

1mo

Thank you, excellent critique video again. I feel like I get so many tools to put in my toolbox from these. And thank you also for all those great submissions, again, everyone, I love learning from you as well. Master studies next week? O-ou... and wow. I've rarely felt this nervous and excited at the same time.

Stan Prokopenko

1mo

If you want to start preparing, you can start looking for artists who's line quality you admire. Part of the project will require choosing your own master reference! I will have a list of my own inspirations if you're not sure where to start :)

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Mon Barker

1mo

Always a ton of additional insight from these critique videos! Thanks Stan and team. A question to all - any tips on how you are structuring your practice? We’ve learned a good few fundamentals now and still the course has lots to come. I find I’m sitting down with my limited practice time (young kids, full time job mean probably average 1 hour per day) and struggling with what to do outside of the course assignments…seem to drift into extended warm-ups rather than starting any new e.g., drawings from observation. Already feels like any progress on early learnings is becoming rusty as I focus on new stuff……yes, I have given up TV and try not to spend so much time watching Proko videos on my mobile 😂

Stan Prokopenko

1mo

Ya this is completely normal. Your brain has to forget stuff that it doesn't use to free up hard drive space. You have to actively learn, practice, revisit, re-practice. For example I went through human anatomy of the whole body like 5 times over a decade. Each time with more detail, until eventually making my anatomy course when I went through every muscle, bone, tendon, ligament, fat deposit with a microscope. Now, several years after teaching that class, I have to re-watch my own videos to remind myself of the details that I learned but didn't put into practice enough. My suggestions are to 1. keep well organized notes, so that you can easily go back and review the birds eye view, or zoom in on any specific topic, and 2. always have personal projects you're working on that utilize the new things you're learning. Incorporating them into your own projects reinforces the concepts much more than doing warmup exercises. Your brain is less likely to dump that info.

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Daniel Stevens

1mo

Hi Mon, I'm kind of in the same boat. Kids/ full time job etc. Honestly, I've found that waking up at like 5:30-6am, getting that cup of coffee ready and following a long with some live stream or drawing tutorial online has been that best way to keep things moving. 45 minutes to an hour makes all the difference, and I don't feel like I'm clawing desperately for time later in the day and getting frustrated when I can't find it. We've been studying line a lot in this course recently, and I imagine we'll be moving to form, perspective and all that in the near future. Comic artist are an amazing resource to learn from. I've been supplementing this course with David Finch, Ryan Benjamin, and Jim Lee previously recorded live streams on YouTube and just draw along.

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Moyra Le Blanc Smith

1mo

Thanks for the critique video. However I was wishing for more pencil drawings. All the examples discussed were digital.

Stan Prokopenko

1mo

hmm, im not sure what you mean. There were many pencil on paper submission in the video. Though more digital than usual.

Clowndev

1mo

Hey, it's working! Good job, in the meantime I sketched the Wednesday goblins stealing the video, with line weight in mind of course! Don't know anatomy so I winged it :)

Kimberly Lewis

1mo

We are working on it y'all! :)

Hazel

1mo

hooray

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Ann Pauley

1mo

I also don't see the video

John B

1mo

Sorry about that! It should load now

Daniel Stevens

1mo

Hello, I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I can't seem to play the video. It loads as "completed" with the blue check with no playback option. Thanks for all that you do!