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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.
Multiple pear attempts after watching the initial video and demo, followed by my most recent attempt, which was made after watching this critique video. Would appreciate any critique/feedback (specifically on my most recent attempt) :)
Lots of errors in the first few, but I wanted to include them to show thought process/progression
I suck at drawing and couldnt afford this course so i decided to look at the pear and try my best to make it look good
I'm a total beginner. For a long time, I didn't even have the confidence to draw a stick figure. As a child, my drawings were often ridiculed by my friends and my sister (they weren't being mean, just kids being kids), but I eventually lost interest because it just wasn't fun anymore.
I spent my entire youth and adult life avoiding drawing, even though I’ve always loved looking at art. Now, in the year I turn 40, I’ve decided to finally dedicate myself to learning.
I’m currently struggling a lot with line quality, motor skills, and hand-eye coordination, but I’m practicing every day to improve. Drawing this simple pear was a really cool experience for me, and I’m happy with how it turned out!
Before watching the demo and after the demo.
Thanks for sharing this. Your pear looks great. I’m a total beginner as well in a similar boat (loved drawing as a child but lost confidence somewhere along the way). It is encouraging to see such progress from other beginners.
Any advice would be appreciated. First drawing was done before watching any of the example videos and the rest were after.
I couldn't find any 6b pencils, so I had to make it work with a charcoal stick lol. I think I'll give this another shot when I get some 6bs, my core shadows are definitely too dark
Absolute beginner here! Feedback welcome!
It was tough to understand the transition of shadows. Am I correct in thinking you can't have your darkest shadow next to the dark 1/2 tone (third lightest)? Is that what Stan said? Plane changes and all.. I went back in and placed the lighter shadow in between... Learning to think differently here is kind of exciting!
Yes i think he mentioned that if there is a very dark tone in a light area it looks spotty and not making a transition between whats supposed to be shadowy or not, because this is just identifying the areas for shadow. But this is because this is a study to just determine the transition. Your pear looks really good!
Second attempt at the first pear with a before and after. How was this? I tried to simplify it a lot more after seeing the pear critique video
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2mo
The shapes that you chose in your second version read much more clearly than your first, nice job!
Hello, Just got done with the first assignment and demos. Any constructive feedback is welcome!!!
Did I mention I have never been able to draw? Everyone in my family can, its never come naturally. Here are my very 1st attempts….
Hey Stan,
I'm new here so I thought I would introduce myself. I am currently an MFA student in children's literature and illustration at Hollins University, I am in my fourth semester and currently taking my design class with them. However I desperately want to amp up my drawing fundamentals as I have never been to formal art School and this came highly recommended, I bundled it with the children's illustration class and super excited to get started and post here. 🥰
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2mo
Not Stan (just one of the minions haha) but glad you're here! Looking forward to seeing your work and your progress.
Hey! Just started working on getting my art skills up, I would love any feedback on my drawing!
Couldn't keep my attention span long enough to just watch the critique video so did a bunch of free doodle/replicas from the video. Trying to think of shapes and sharp lines but its difficult especially when drawing outline i feel like my proportions are out of wack zooming in. Got a little frustrated yesterday but doodling and watching today was freeing
Hello!
First of all, I think you did a good job trying to get the proportions down. I would have made the lower half of the pear slightly thicker, but other than that it looks good.
Another thing that you did well was that you recognized the main shadows and highlights and placed them out correctly.
I would say the main thing that you missed, was the line work, it's not as sharp as it should be. Stan mentioned that the edges should be sharp for this exercise and a lot of edges here look smooth, and the values from one value gets mixed with other values. Some of the lines are also too round, when no round curves are allowed for this exercise.
This exercise is mainly about simplification, and curves should be straight lines, edges should be sharp and there needs to be 5 distinct values.
But I would say that this is a good start over all. Good job.
