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Time for Level 2! Let’s push the shapes in our simple animal portraits and see what happens.
Good idea using human anatomy references and simplifying it. One thing I'm noticing is some of your drawings look a bit lopsided. This is caused when both sides of the drawing are not symmetrical when they should be (E.g. A circle leaning to one side or one side of the mouth is higher than the other). Try to get in the habit of mirroring your drawing when you start to feel good about it as it helps you notice the flaws much easier. Its something I'm doing all the time now and it makes you notice your bad drawing habits. For example I have a bad tendency to draw straight lines slightly angled so everything tends to lean in my drawing if I forget to mirror.
Drew these new iterations. I feel I improved a bit on these after watching the level 2 demo
I gave it a shot and it was pretty difficult haha. Thinking a bit about shapes has shown me how characters might be placed into shape envelopes. For example placing a character into an overall rectangular shape envelope to enhance how stable they feel.
I was oversimplifying until I watched the demo video. After which, I revisited the buffalo and the rooster. sorry about the puns, couldn’t help myself.
I found this exercise quite difficult. Even though I have some experience with drawing, it was hard for me to simplify things into shapes.
I can see after watching this that I was approaching this wrong. I'm still not sure if I'm getting it right, I think I need to practice this more before moving on. I think it's starting to click though?
Did a lot of these drawings. Great practice for pushing shapes in ways that will help with animation later
I found this project challenging. But I think there was good progress between my attempts before watching the demo (in blue) and after watching the demo (in red). I think my first attempts generally were too rigid. My shapes were too literal: more triangles than triangular, for example. It helped varying proportions of the individual shapes and thinking about the personality of the character.
These look good! I had a hard time with this as well and the demo definitely helped clear some stuff up.
Really liked the hippo I did, struggled with the buffalo the most, had fun drawing
Even though I am clearly at level one, I wanted to try drawing each animal using the different shapes (I did not do the exaggerated or character designs. Felt like I got it with the rooster but struggled hard with the hippo. Without the reference photo, I don't think I'd guess it was a hippo.
these are my studies of Stans interpretations. I'm planning to attempt my own tomorrow with these as inspiration and guide
Here I have some examples I did after watching the first 10-11 minutes. I was busy, and even I felt lazy, but I could practice and apply what Stan teached in this class. It wasn't hard at all :)
