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Here’s a clip taken from the premium critique of the drawing basics course.
The assignment was to simplify a pear or a portrait down to its shapes, values, and edges. In this critique, I break down some of the common issues I saw students have with their shape design. I’ll give you advice and talk about proportion, asymmetry, and improving your shadow shape design. If you enjoy this critique and would like more be sure to check out the full course.
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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.
Hello!! Day three here yayy!
So while watching this demo I took some notes, some quick, some drawings, had a lot of fun! Thank you!
I'm going to watch the next video and hopefully do a project:))
Have a nice day guys!
The critique helped me understand the difference between the values so much better. Here one pre- and one post-critique.
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9d
Nicely done! Great work on the shape of the shadow.
Hello. I am excited to learn about the technical aspects of drawing. I took all the art classes when I was in high school, decades ago, but have not done much since. I chose the pear option 3 to make sure that I was not just doing exactly as he said in his demo. I did attempt the project once before the demo and once after. Overall I struggled with shading the correct values and drawing what my eye saw.
I am new here. Always want to learn how to draw and I am finally trying to do it. There is a lot more to this than I had realized and this is really hard for me! I took several runs at this level 1 pair over a week. Struggled with every aspect of it… angles, proportions. Simplification. The five values were particularly challenging for me. Here are my first, second and fourth attempts.
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Values can be a big challenge! You did nice work on these! You did well at lightening up the light halftone throughout these drawings, along with getting some nice shapes going. Values will be coming up later in the course, but practicing making a value scale with your tools will make it a much easier task!
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9d
Good work! Remember to look for the lighter shadow halftone within the darkest shadow, it'll make the shadows not feel as flat, as there are two values that make it up.
I didn’t pay for the course, but I snatched a screenshot of the pear from the next video. I did this in maybe 10 mins. I have never drawn or sketched in my life, and I am pretty proud of this. I used a mechanical pencil, and my brother happened to have some kind of charcoal smoother pencil thingy around. I am quite proud of myself. :)
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9d
Nice work! For this project, and many in this course, I would recommend against using a smudging tool! It can definitely be useful, but the blurriness can be used to hide mistakes, and when you're learning it's important to face those to understand where to improve! Use neat, overlapping pencil strokes to fill in areas, and gradually build up darker values. Keep it up!!
After watching the critique video, I gave the exercise another try, this time using only markers.
Hey Marco! Where are you finding these still life images? Also your studies look great :)
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23d
Very, very nice! You did an excellent job designing the shapes of your values. I especially love the geometric look of your fruits and veggies!
Hi @unalloyedman ! I just started this course yesterday. Can I humbly ask if you are learning the course using digital materials (i.e., Procreate)? If yes, may I ask what brushes you used for this practice? I was using the HB pencil brush on Procreate, and it was a bit difficult for me, so I was just wondering, as your drawing turned out really nice!
Grateful for any feedback on the shape finding and the value hierarchy! (lighting on photo is not the best)
I’m in no place to give knowledgeable feedback. But I can say this is really great. I think you have done really well at finding the shapes of shadow and value on his face.
I tried doing this exercise with the banana reference photo used in the video. Any suggestions are welcome!
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30d
Ooh, a banana is a great fruit choice for this exercise! Nice work dividing the planes of the fruit and designing the shapes for the values.
I tried to do this project with cup of coffee photo as my reference. Any suggestions are welcome!
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30d
This looks great! All I would say is to take notice of the edges of shapes, the ones on the cup are a bit darker than the values around them. You'll want to make sure they match the value they're next to so the cut off isn't as harsh! Keep it up!
Hello, Im not a professional at all but I think you can try to focusing more on making sharp shapes instead of complex/organic ones.
My progress before the demo, after the demo, and after reviewing the critique.
Before and after watching the critique video. I’m excited to continue to build on the skills I’m learning already.
My shading needs practice. I did this on 9 x 12 so maybe I need to start smaller?
My dark half-tone is super close to light shadow. Next time will try to distinguish them more.
this was my initial attempt. I was surprised that stans example places the highlight within the shadow as a much lighter value than my eyes are identifying it.
