Critique - Simplify to CSI
Critique - Simplify to CSI
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Stan Prokopenko
Simplify to CSI" submissions! I decided to combine both level 1 & 2 students for this critique since I saw very similar mistakes at both levels.
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chandan01312
Lazzy to neatly tie the left foot lase😁
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chandan01312
Getting good at drawing at snail pace😁
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chandan01312
First post not the last ... Be ready to see more bad drawings.....
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Geiner Alfaro
I feel like I had the most trouble with the snail for some reason. Fun challenge and creating good habits struggle with like cleaner lines
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João Freches
I find this CSI Lines so hard! Really, I'm very impatient and messy! Gosh!!
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Minna Mäkinen
Drew the snail and the came again after the demos and the critique. The camel had a better balance of straights and curves now but I still have a lot of issues with fitting my subjects on paper. Felt like doing the snail on toned paper but holy smokes this particular paper is SO dark.
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Meander Around
Proko demo csi advanced subjects
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ern1s
One more attempt. Any critique welcome
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ern1s
Another CSI attempt. Haven't done so much erasing in my life, very difficult to get my hand to draw a line where I want it. Any critique welcome
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2mo
Getting in these reps bit by bit, though I keep goofing on my page layout mainly on Captain Skeleton T_T. Also get super confused on counting teeth and in some ways the vertebrae, I get a weird anxiety, ARGH! The Scott Eaton anatomy I did a couple years ago is still in my brain pan, so there's a win :D! Another great exercise! And now after watching the demos and crits I went overboard, again XD!
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Ladislava Himmer
Bit by bit, the practice pays off. If I don't concentrate 100% on CSI and the task, it becomes a painting. Thank goodness your videos are so entertaining, Stan - it helps keep you going.😉
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Mackenzie Turner
After toiling away at the boots for SO LONG, drawing the snail took two seconds. I'm feeling happy with how I designed my shapes, but the lines seem pretty stiff. Gonna keep practicing the page skating warmups to see if it helps me loosen up a bit.
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Liandro
Great job, @Mackenzie Turner!
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Chris Sanchez
First camel and skelly guy were my solo attempt. Second set was while following the demo. I put way to much detail into my skelly guy. And after hearing that shoes were pretty tricky, I wanted to give both level 1 assignments a try.
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Liandro
Really nice work, @Chris Sanchez!
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Abby D
The level of detail on your first Skelly is greater, but I like it! I love the shoes — great detail with the laces, and they look three dimensional!
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Pawel
After watching demo and critique I realised that I put too many details in the first skull drawing and that wasn’t the goal of this exercise, so I did it one more time without paying too much attention to proportions and small shapes, and focused on big lines. With boots and camel I was pretty satisfied, so I decided to simplify my sleeping cat instead ;) Still need to practice but I’m getting better with every lesson, those videos are great!
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2mo
Second attempt at the Level 1 & 2 assignments. I used straight lines to map out the proportions first
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cujovic
I found it incredibly challenging to capture the shapes of the laces and wiggled my way there. Somewhere in between I had to pause the project until I had ordered a Mono zero in order to clean out the laces. I feel like I captured the shape of the shoes ok but was unable to focus on line quality.
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cujovic
After doing the first attemt way too detailed and probably missing the point of the exercise I set the timer to 10 minutes to finish the second attemt in order to shift the focus away from details to more confident lines.
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cujovic
Thank you :-)
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Melodie Wynne
Yes, a time limit is not a bad idea - maybe a bit short, but you don’t have hours to fuss over a drawing. Can “fix it” in a second, timed pass if you think it is necessary.
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cujovic
I felt like the camel was way easier to capture shapewise than all the other pictures, even the snail. Anyway, after doing it rather precisely the first time I tried a second time with more focus on line quality and meet the objective of the excercise.
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cujovic
I tried to do more simple and clear lines when I did the second one
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Tony Zhang
After a few days of playing with portraits and pictures I found interesting I finally decided to sit down and do a CSI for its own sake without trying to get a good-looking drawing. I’m pretty happy with this skeleton, actually. Moving on!
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