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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.
First time learning any fundamentals and sharing my work, so I hope this serves as motivation for others. These are my two first attempts. The first attempt was done following the advice shared on "Simply from Observation" and then my second attempt is a result of using the demo as guidance. I think the demo helped big time in making sense of the skills and advised shared by Stan. I can perceive more values on the picture of the pear itself, but per advice I decided to stick to the 5 values.
Any feedback on my work would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Here's my second attempt at doing pear 1 now that I have a pencil set and am being more cognizant about the multiple levels of shadows as well as the core shadow.
l really grateful to Proko for helping someone like me -- who had zero foudation and was honestly scared of drawing--- finally draw a pear through practice for the first time l'm genuinely really happy
Hello, this is my fourth attempt at the pear. I feel like i improved on my contour of the pear but it seems like i still seem to struggle with values. I believe my lights are still too dark causing me to make darker values even darker. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks
hi, this is my pear before watching the demo had alot of issues with the light and shadow values specially because of the darker tones but it´s a first step in to this journey
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Hey Douglas, this is an excellent pear! Proportions look great and the value shapes you designed follow the form well. One small tweak you could make to reinforce the 3d effect of those planes curving away from the light source is to darken the value shape to the left of the core shadow shape. Right now it's pretty similar to the value shape on the right of the core shadow shape, the transition from the lit planes to the unlit planes. This has a flattening effect on your pear, but just going a step darker with that value shape will show that those planes curve away from the light source at a more extreme angle.
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Nice dimensionality! There is a bit of mixing of your tones around the core shadow area. I would simply recommend darkening your core shadow and the 2nd darkest value a touch, so it distinguishes the shadow side more from the light side.
This is my attempt at pear #3. I found the assortment of shades along the left side very challenging.
All three pears for 1st attempts before the demo and 2nd attempts after the demo. Unfortunately, I didn't realize until after that everything on the paper got smudged, especially for 1st attempts. Definitely needed work on shading and planes which I improved more on the second attempt, but need to start using the point of the pencils more for filling rather than the side of the pencils. Going to do a third attempt after watching the critique videos and have more patience with my shading, think I was going too quickly and not taking my time.
I feel like I'm starting to get it a lot more! Don't love the shadow under the pear but I think I could've improved it with more page space.
Any critiques are welcome!
