Demo - Simplify Portrait from Observation
Demo - Simplify Portrait from Observation
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Stan Prokopenko
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 2 students.
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Logan Ybarra
Before and after demo. A lot of work to do but the demo helped a lot on figuring out what goes where etc. First one took about an half hour and after demo 3-4 hours.
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Basile
Again I did it first then I watched the video and do another one. I was really frustrated on the second one but I can see some improvement
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ducsinhsn
Hi everyone, this is my first attempt on the portrait without watching anything in advance.
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gabitomazelli
Portrait first attempt
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bodhik
Portrait! Before and after demo.
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Greg Nott
My Portrait Drawing for this project
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Anu V
Level 2 portrait - Okay so height, width, construction, tone, patterns..what did i miss. Lots i guess. 5th attempt and i could have done the pattern better. Something i did right around the nose to jaw that made the form better. Unhappy with the pencil pattern. Not consistent enough. Learning: Lines in the shadow are different x angle of the form + shadow x thickness. Hairy lines are horrible. Always check on tones relative to the tones next to it. Stan’s emphasis on half tones. I also added random 2B lines on the check and forehead. Less is more in the last mile.
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laurenciatti
Pre demo and post demo on procreate. This was challenging! 🥴
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Mahagaya Suryadi
pre(1st pic) and after demo
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Sam B
few days ago i posted under the 1st lesson, i decided to redo the exercise, albeit with a different reference, having issues simplifying the tones and not getting caught up with the details.
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Christle Panickar
I tried. T_T Lightenned my halftones in the face because I realised that it was too dark but I got lazy and didn't change it for the shirt so I ended up with 6 shades instead of the 5.
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prota94
2nd attempt post demo this time, with a different ref
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Stephen Kienhöfer
well - values could be a lot better defined .... I'll post it anyway ...
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prota94
Before demo, definitely gonna take another crack at this one, It was very tricky!
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prota94
also darn, just now realize I missed a huge portion of his hair cause i smudged it out with my hand during the drawing. If anyone's got any tips to avoid that I'd appreciate. Non of that smudging on the paper was intentional.
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Colombian
I struggled a bit but here it is
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arcknight
Project 1 Lvl 2. Feedback?
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Goran
can see many errors after the demo
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Michael Bristow
this pear is number 2 the one after the demo idk about this one it my be worse than the first uhh
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sebastian777
First image is the first try. I made very complicated and added much more than 5 values. After watching the demo I understood much better what the exercise wanted from us, and I see that I need to work more on proportions. Also, I should’ve darken the light values a little bit more so it would have been easier to see the highlights. Any feedback would appreciated!
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Jillian Potts
So much erasing lol. This was so hard!!! I’m use to drawing faces by first using the landmarks of eyes, nose, and mouth. It was mind bending drawing based off shadows 😅
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