$159
Bundle discount Each additional course part in your cart adds 3% off all courses, up to 15% off.
Full course
You’ll learn the most important foundational concepts for drawing anything and soon you’ll be drawing pictures out of your imagination or from reference.
$159
Give a gift
Give a gift card for art students to use on anything in the Proko store.
Or gift this course:
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
LESSON NOTES![]()
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.
To watch this step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first project for level 1 students, join the premium course!
DOWNLOADS
simplify-from-observation-pear-demo.mp4
807 MB
simplify-from-observation-pear-demo-transcript-english.txt
24 kB
simplify-from-observation-pear-demo-captions-english.srt
40 kB
simplify-from-observation-pear-demo-transcript-spanish.txt
24 kB
simplify-from-observation-pear-demo-captions-spanish.srt
40 kB
COMMENTS![]()
![Stan Prokopenko]()
![]()
![Rising stars chowari]()
![]()
![Jon]()
![]()
![@jdawg]()
![]()
![CK]()
![]()
![@sophialia]()
![]()
![Sean Yeager]()
![]()
![Boris]()
![]()
![@vicgski]()
![]()
![Sinister]()
![]()
![@horolskyi]()
![]()
![Ben Kraske]()
![]()
![Jakub Banas]()
![]()
![Vanessa White]()
![]()
![Ariel G]()
![]()
![@gingerbud]()
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.
These are my drawings and i know i ahve to improve a lot and i will btw the firat i watch frrom stan and second i draw from myself
Nice work getting started. I'm also a beginner. Looking at your drawings, the first thing that jumps out out me is the splotchy shading. It's difficult but maybe practicing get a square of even tone would help. Keep up the hard work!
Hello Everyone! These are my attempts at the Pear: the first two are my recents attempts and the last two are of the same pears but from about 3 months ago. I definitely improved in the area of simplification and breaking down the values. But I do think my shading and application of the material could use some work. Any critiques are welcome, very happy to be here!
I'm a 3d artist so going from making good looking enviroments and models to this bad looking pear is a blow to my ego lol
I redrew all of my pears after the demo, I think they look somehow worse than before :( did I do something wrong? I maybe messed up the proportions a bit because I was more focused on the values
Hi everyone! This is my first ever real hand at drawing and shading something. Really loving the course so far. Hardest part for me was the initial outline to start, but ended up being happy with this outline. Im using nicpro 2mm mechanical pencils from the supply list and am loving them. Happy drawing everyone!
Got my pre demo and post demo. Chose a different pose for post demo just not to copy what Stan did fully. It was a different challenge, was a bit puzzled how to go about the shadows as it seems fairly dark on the bottom part in the image. Any comment is welcome :)
That's not bad!
Main critique would be that the darker half-tone should be a bit darker, as it feels a bit too similar to the main half-tone.
The lines feel a little bit messy on the exterior, I'm guessing you added it as a quick thing to add contrast to the pear.
One last thing, the highlights are a bit hard to see, so i feel like you could make the half-tone a bit darker to contrast that, but I feel like it's because of the lighting.
Great job!
•
4d
Nice work on the values and I really like how the shape of your pear turned out! I'd suggest being intentional with how you're putting down lines. Make sure you follow through on your pencil strokes, which will help reduce some scratchiness in the outlines. As you're designing the value shapes, be sure to take the time to observe and see what those shapes are and how to best simplify them. Keep it up!
First 2 photos are my attempts prior to demo and critique videos, I attempted all 3 pears. watched the demo and critique then attempted pear 1 again. I'm extremely happy with the improvement from before an after. My absolute biggest challenge is filling in light values, I find it difficult to keep the strokes close together, resulting in quiet a few visible strokes. Any criticism and tips are highly welcome.
One before watching this video and another after. I think drawing digitally for pencil sketching is tad bit difficult for me, but I do think that after watching this video I start to understand more about seeing/drawing an object with flat panels. I watched the video then tried drawing it on my own, because I wanted to make sure I’m not trying to “replicate” the tutor’s drawing, but drawing it out based on what I’ve learned and understood. Shading value still needs to be improved imo, but I believe it’s definitely better than my first own attempt!
also, if anyone is interested in getting a learning buddy, please let me know! I’m completely new to drawing. :)
pear v1! coming back to drawing after a decade of not drawing anything. trying to learn again from the ground up
It is very cool to see improvement between the two, eve if it is really slight. I realized I was trying to rush through on attempt 1 and i worked on slowing down for attempt two.
