Demo - Simple Animal Portraits - Level 1

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Demo - Simple Animal Portraits - Level 1

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Stan Prokopenko
It’s time for another demo! Come check out my process for simplifying animal portraits into basic shapes.
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@goobish
2mo
sketches made during demo any critiques are welcomed
Chauncey Holder
I tired to apply what I learned from the demo
Tony Zhang
2mo
Again, these are fun! Trying to pick my shape design skills back up.
@arthiecio
3mo
A good exercise made me understand how to see and minimize shapes a keeping them simple
Daniel Rodriguez
I tried my best to follow Stan's demonstration. How did I do? @Martha Muniz
JK
3mo
Hello everyone! Got a quick question: anyone has an idea on how to draw a sheep so it doesnt look like a dog? ( I’m straggling going through this assignment :(
Rachel Dawn Owens
Looking good! We can look to the skulls to see the big differences between these two animals. Dogs and sheep are designed for different things. Dogs are built to run, hunt and, bite. Sheep graze in fields all day. Understanding the subtle difference in their bone structure will help you out. Also, adding some wool might help too :P Hope this is useful. Keep it up!
Jack H
4mo
The demos really helped me in understanding how to better choose the shapes to represent the animals. I felt more confident and satisfied with the redraws of the animals that I did for the project previously. However, there's still much room for improvement. The reference images are the same as those I've posted for the previous video on the project submission. PS. The trick of making thumbnail sketches before drawing the actual animal was the most helpful for me in this case.
Anda Fisch
4mo
Enjoyed that exercise. Found it difficult to see shapes at first, but it made it so much easier and more fun once I started seeing them in the image.
@sjors
5mo
I had a hard time actually finding simple shapes that would make sense. Especially on the pictures I chose myself.
Brhody Wallis
I gave it another crack - simplication is something I really need to work on, so for this attempt, I kept it simple; went to unsplah; searched "animal" - and just scrolled and drew what was there 🤙 I'm much happier with these ones. It's such a skill and one that I think I might become addicted to 🤣
Brhody Wallis
@karl2019
7mo
I have attached my references. Sort of guilty of just rushing these because they were very frustrating to me. I was not sure If I was just supposed to draw the face or the whole animal. I have watched the demo and critiques already. Going to try and redo them. Not really happy how these came out.
@crowlle
7mo
got the dog refrence from @Tony Zhang over here
Tony Zhang
7mo
My 15th attempt and time to move on… Jesus!
Gannon Beck
That dog on the bottom right looks like he's up to something. Good job!
Tony Zhang
8mo
OMG birds are so freaking easy to draw and everything else is so hard!!!
Tony Zhang
8mo
My 13th attempt and I feel like I’m back to square one. LOL. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Nose Feratu
I came back to this exercise, because I don’t think I was having the hang of it. Maybe a bit better this time, but a lot of room for improvement.
@soffe
9mo
How is the shape design? Don't mind the line quality. This is just a test.
Martha Muniz
Looking great! I love the variety explored in these designs.
@solobo
9mo
Some quick attempts after watching the demo, much easier once you've seen a solution!
Martha Muniz
Nice! I like how you put your own style to it, while keeping simple, dynamic shapes as the structure. And great job also on continuing the practice of line quality!
Tajih Phelps
I am posting these way later than when I drew them, but here are my posts for the animal portrait project. This project really showed me how shape design can and should be simple yet dynamic, I really had fun challenging myself to break down the character, and the fact our shapes were not limited to basic ones helped me to understand how shapes can be used as opposed to relying on contours.
@optix
9mo
I did the demo animals, as well as other animals. For some of them, I need to look into simplifying shapes more and not just doing random shapes.
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