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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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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 dear all artists,
This is my first attempt on posting my drawings here in this community,
I'd be thankful for any feedback 🌷
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4d
Welcome to the community! This is a beautiful pear. It’s clear that you have a good eye for form and values. If I were to nit-pick this drawing, I would say that while the darker value shapes have sharp edges, your edges get a bit soft and blurred in the lighter value range, obscuring the shape design. For a finished, rendered drawing, that’s exactly what you want, but for this assignment we want to see your decision-making in sharp detail.
This is very advanced work, I’m looking forward to seeing more!
Final attempt at the pear after watching the critique video.
I definitely feel like I can identify most of my areas in need of growth at this point after doing the three attempts and video watching. The biggest thing I noticed is that I need to gain more control over line weight, as I often found myself using my eraser to help soften the lines that made up the initial outline of the shapes (you can still see most of them in the final piece as well). The second most skill I think I need to improve is my control of the tone weight, I struggled to match the tones of the pear with the gradient I made prior to starting, and I generally am needing more practice controlling the transition between the light and dark of the tones. I think the texture of my paper may also have to do with my inconsistent tone, but I'm not 100% on that.
Otherwise, I'm feeling pretty good about my progress so far.
From left to right, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd attempt. My 1st attempt has the most interesting shapes; my 3rd attempt has the cleanest shading. Thank you in advice for anyone's feedback :)
First, second and third attempts. Second attempt was after watching the demo and third attempt after watching critique (used brush in clip studio paint instead of pencil) I also switched the pear from my first and second try!
Had one final go at the pear after sleeping on the critique video. Think it turned out much better than the first attempt. Left is new, right is pre-demo.
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9d
They both look wonderful. The one on the left stands out more because of the dark background. The one on the left also has better shape design and the values are more clear.
Great improvement already! Nice work.
After the critique video, I tried to drew the pear one more time. I tried to look for the characteristic of the subject instead of copying from the demo. Sticking into the 5 values was the difficult. The hardest thing for me was to get rid of my normal habit of photocopying subject. The class was very refreshing though. Hope I'm making progress here...
Post Critique Pear. I was quite inspired by some of the other students projects that I decided to redo mine and attempt simplifying all the shadow into one value. Quite happy with how it turned out.
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26d
Excellent pear!!
I know I didn't need to but after my 1st attempt pre-demo and 2nd attempt post demo, i decided to do a 3rd attempt post the critique video because this is all so new to me. I did switch to smooth bristol paper for my 3rd attempt as I kinda felt I had more control on my pencils.
Here's my attempt at replicating this piece. I tried my best to simplify by squinting and only seeing the light and dark differences. I know both the upper right side of the pear is too big + the shading near the tip of the stem was wrong, but, I was too scared to erase and possibly mess up and have to start over again.
Came back to this again with new marker pens. Damn those pens are hard to use...but was a good test.
These are my attempts for the first project: simplification.
The first one was without the demo, the second one was following the demo, the third and fourth one were my attempt at a different fruit/image.
Super excited for this course and improving my abilities. Would love to hear your critiques!
Ps. the highlights are not white anymore due to copious amounts of erasing and redrawing (as are other parts of the drawing😅)
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2mo
Wow. This pear looks amazing. You drew very very clear and well designed shapes of value that describe the form well.
Great work!
I'm at L0 but really keen to improve my abilities. I'd appreciate any critique or tips that will help with that :)
Hi perrito! This looks awesome, I think you captured the asymmetry and character of the pear well! I also like that you used directional shading to indicate the form, and how sharp and crisp the shadows are! I noticed there's a bit of smudging on the page; I've had that same problem, especially when working with the darker pencils. Something that's helped me a lot is keeping a piece of paper in between my hand and the sketchbook paper.
I think you did a great job! :)
I know it's my first attempt and that I'm level 0, but when I see the other drawings I get demotivated too quickly, I completely lost my motivation hahahahaha
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2mo
Looks good! Don't lose that motivation. On thing to try is to draw that value scale at the top, and then carefully and lightly map out all the shapes first. Then all ya gotta do is fill in the drawing using your value scale as a guide. Keep it up, and you'll master the exercises in no time.
Here is an apple I drew trying to follow what was said in the critique, I could have been more careful with my lines and proportions, but it was fun to apply the exercise to an other object.
It was fun trying to show drapery with X,Y and Z lines and to play with composition, shape design and contrast, even though I can't really call myself satisfied.
I guess the important thing is that I challenged myself and that I had fun.
The X, Y and Z lines for the drapery makes the overall image very mystical, it's giving some lightning vibes, it's very cool!
