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Now that you’ve all had some time to try the first project on your own, you can watch how I do it and figure out what areas you are exceeding and struggling with.
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Now that you’ve all had some time to try the first project on your own, you can watch how I do it and figure out what areas you are exceeding and struggling with.
Here is my step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first project for level 1 students.
Here are my first three attempts of pear #3 (also first attempt of ever trying to really draw). First two were before watching the explanation. First one with a number 2 pencil. By the second one I got the different pencil types and third was after watching the explanation. It still looks very rudimentary, but I’m excited to see improvement even in those three attempts. I feel like my darkest shades lose the lines and look more like filled in rather than drawn. Also some of the lighter values seem a little hard to differentiate.
Really fun experience though.
I drew this after and while watching the video. I am having a hard time with the middle values.
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11h
Your shapes look very nice! It seems like your middle-value issue might be related to pressure control of the pencil- if that's the case and you find it difficult to shade those lighter values evenly, it's just a matter of practice. A good exercise to include in your rotation is that. Value scale that you have on the right side of your drawing. Double the size of those squares to give you enough space to practice with. You can increase the difficulty by further increasing the size of the squares, and also by including 10 squares instead of just 5.
Here's my try after watching the demo! This was fun and challenging. Feeling proud of what I managed to do even without prior drawing experience. The two pictures are simply the same drawing in different lighting. Any feedback is appreciated!
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I was going to say that in the first photo, your 2nd light value I think could be lightened a bit more, but the weird thing is that it looks lighter in the 2nd photo, lol. You did a great job :)
This is fun.
It's hard to maintain pencil stroke direction and pressure when filling in shadows.
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It's something that'll come more naturally as you practice it! You're doing well so far! As you get to the Values section of this course, there will be warmups and projects to help improve your skills! Nice job! :)
My second attempt at this exercise, focusing on form, light and shadow, and value separation.
I'd appreciate your feedback on what I'm doing right and where I need to improve. Any constructive criticism is welcome!
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Excellent work! Your values read clearly and pass the squint test. Your shapes are well designed to follow the plane changes of the pear. If I had to nit-pick, I would recommend you to work on even shading of the larger value shapes. There are a couple spots where there's inconstancies, but only really noticeable on that largest shape in the light midtone. Practicing value scales will help hone that skill. To up the difficultly, increase the size of the boxes in the scale so you work with a larger surface area.
So I'm totally new to this, had a hard time with proportions and lines on the shading (don't know which direction it should go and how to make it more natural), but here it is.
The first one I tried without looking much at the reference drawing and the second one I used the reference.
did a bana just before watching this now tried the pear after watching the demo, i think going with just straight lines makes it a much easier shape to do this with for me
My first attempt. I should have made the shadows a bit lighter to begin with and darkened as needed.
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These look great, I definitely see improvement after the demo! I suggest getting more of your darkest value in the pear! Right now it looks like it's just in the drop shadow, so I think by finding where it is on the pear would really help balance it out :)
This was a much more humbling exercise than I thought it would be. This was my third pass after I kept overcomplicating things with too many values and details. I still feel it reads pretty flat and also I really need to practice getting consistent and even tone with the pencil. My fill areas are way too "liney". Also, the contrast still feels rather weak, and perhaps this is because I was lazy and only used a single HB pencil on printer paper. That being said, I appreciate the nudge to just post it anyway even though I feel like it's trash to get in the habit of sharing even when you're not particularly proud of the work!
