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Pear Critiques are here!
Critique for the portraits coming Thursday, but I recommend level 2 students watch this critique video too. I give advice and demonstrate things that should be useful to both levels.
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Tony Sandell
3d
This was great loved all the submissions and also Stan's delivery and humour
leoglt
14d
Here's my attempt After Stan's demo, chose another ref so i'm not tempted to copy his !
I'm not used to use pencils, my strokes look horrible lmao :'(
Any feedback is welcome ! :) Thank you
Jordan A
25d
My attempt
Justin Schiff
1mo
After watching the critique, I wanted to do a more loose form based approach (on a different pear), to see if I could internalize what Proko was talking about near the end.
I think my darker midtones are still a bit lost, but the form approach seemed to help me think more about flow lines and let me be a bit more interpretive.
Charles Hoole
1mo
When doing this was anyone else having the issue of making 2B and 4B shading more distinguishable from each other? I was finding that the 6B was significantly darker than the 4B after multiple passes with both, but it seemed like the contrast between them was significantly greater than the contrast of 2B and 4B.
Aishwarya Roy
1mo
Day 2 for simplifying observation. Feedback’s appreciated 🙂
Aasiya
1mo
Critiques appreciated
Aishwarya Roy
1mo
On Day 1 after watching the tutorial.
rodakor09
2mo
Here are my first attempt, made before watching the demo and critique videos, and my second attempt, made after watching both. There are still some things I'd change, but overall I'd say it's way better!
nightfall
2mo
todays attemptt
2mo
Looks beautiful! The thing I would note is that the bounce light area (fourth value counting light to dark) on the pear is much lighter than in the original image--make sure the shadows are still shadows even if they vary in tone. The cast shadow also tapers off as it gets weaker, so you will see some of that 4th value on the edges as well.
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Christopher Lebreault
2mo
Hey everyone! Enjoyed doing this. Any crits would be great! Also wondering how to avoide smudging all over the place while drawing?
Tyia!
2mo
Hey there! Something I noticed is that the rendering seems very soft/blended together--aim for more defined edges with distinct differences between your value shapes. Looking closely, I can make out the core shadow (darkest area) on the pear, but it's difficult to differentiate it from the lighter shadow value on the left, so I think your darkest value could use darkening especially.
As for smudging, using a paper towel under your dominant hand can help mitigate it.
Hope this helps! Good work :)
amaising
2mo
Final pear I did on my own after watching the critiques tried to improve my pencil work to make it less messy and I also tried to make sure the values contrasted well, i think the fourth and fifth lightest values might still be too close but I improved a lot off my other attempts and the shape of the pear I think looks much better this time and closer to the photo !
spottcilgrim
2mo
Did a second attempt with the project. Since this was my second one (and I saw some other people doing digital), I thought I'd have fun and do an ink wash for the actual shading instead of graphite. I still am going too tall with my proportions--though this one was not nearly as badly tall as my first one :)
mariabygrove
2mo
Aw, brilliant idea with the ink wash, all the values are clearly delineated.
goldfinch411
2mo
Second try :)
2mo
Hello! The only thing I would say is to remember to keep your values consistent. You have a good value scale going for reference, but when it comes to the pear, the 2nd darkest value appears closer to the 3rd value. I find it helps to squint to compare if the overall masses in value match up between the reference and the drawing. But overall nice job, keep up the good work :)
Yanze Li
2mo
Fourth Attempts (after force me to finish half the video), Don't know whether this one is better or worse, I like this pear I draw. (purple one is the second attempts I draw earlier that I rush through with no patient)
And I realized I used 6 color, and I reupload the 5 color version
Ellie Kemp
3mo
First attempt, any feedback appreciated!
2mo
Good job simplifying the image into distinct shapes with consistent tone and accurate proportions. One thing I would note is that the values skew darker than they appear in the reference image. If you squint at the photo, take note of how most of the light section can be grouped as one consistent mass (the 2nd lightest color), with only some small highlight areas and a darker half-tone as a transition towards the shadow. Hope this helps :)
Jeremy Powers
3mo
Here is my second attempt at simplifying the pear. Any feedback is appreciated.
kara ann aoki
3mo
Drawing Basics - PEAR
• attempt #2 after watching Stan’s demo, I think it looks better than my first one
kara ann aoki
3mo
Drawing Basics - MAN
• attempt #2 after watching Stan’s demo, still had a hard time distinguishing what to simplify
hannassi
3mo
here are my pears. i did not buy this course, so the only stuff available to me is free. thus, i am pretty sure i might have missed something that Stan talked about in the premium video lessons
Same Old Sam
3mo
Here's my third attempt, which I did after watching the critique. I think I did a better job keeping my lines straight and only using five values. (I got a wider range of pencils!) This is pear #1, and I did this on newsprint. I can't decide if the background adds to it or makes it looks messier.
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