Project - Cross Contour on Ginger Root People

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Project - Cross Contour on Ginger Root People

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Cross Contour Project Deadline Extended!

I decided to add in an additional project video to practice cross contour. I'll show you how I turn up the difficulty level on ginger root blobs and turn them into characters.

Deadline: 6-10-2024

Turn the Difficulty Knob

  1. Start with random ginger blobs. Make them humanoid by adding limbs and a head. Focus on mass rather than anatomy and proportions.
  2. Use photos of people in dynamic poses. Ensure the photos have depth (things coming towards you, body twisting, etc..). Avoid static poses.
  3. Create specific characters with pre planned proportions, like a monster ogre with a club. More specific characters add more constraints and chances for errors.

Refine the Drawing

Switch to a black pencil for cleanup. Focus on line weight and clean up your shape design. Adjust cross contours to show depth and volume. Emphasize interesting shapes and avoid symmetry.

Newest
Maestro
19h
Shapes on the second one seem a bit too boring
Angel Kritikos
Assignments 1 and 2. I tried to draw poppaie as a ginger root character but didn't do anything creative. Simply added some details to give it the feeling of ginger. The rest of the animals are just cross contour line.
Stephen Clark
That chameleon head at the top, the sliced ginger and the two red pandas are the standouts for me here. The chameleon, in particular, is no small feat to communicate the curving and complicated plane changes all on the one form. Well done!
@621
11d
Tommy Pinedo
Here are my attempts for this project. I felt like a character design artist trying to come up with ginger root characters. This was tons of fun and tried my best to emphasize on the cross contours and the ginger texture. any feedback is welcome! 🙏🏻
Tyson
18d
I enjoyed this.
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are fun
CharmLotta
19d
Let's get crazy!
Rachel Dawn Owens
Woah!
Chauncey Holder
Trying this, it was pretty fun and was relaxing to do!
Melanie Scearce
These are great characters. Nice job with the cross contours, you nailed it!
Randy P
1mo
This assignment was challenging but fun. I felt like I was able to combine the information from a number of previous lessons and invent some dynamic three dimensional characters. Line quality continues to be a challenge for me and I’m still resorting to multiple iterations and lots of erasing to refine the lines and shapes. Some of the initial sketches were super messy to the point I was chiseling away all the incorrect searching lines with the eraser. I played with flat coloring this time which I’ve seen in some other posts. It relally makes the drawing feel much more solid and hides some of the mistakes or sloppiness in the lines. Probably not a great thing to rely on while practicing but it is rewarding to see it with color/shading.
Rachel Dawn Owens
These different characters you made here are really cool. And I dig the addition of some color. It makes your homework more eye catching. Try some more round lines on the forms that face the viewer. Draw around the foreshortened forms rather than worrying about the contours. Heres a draw over as well as a couple of examples to help explain what I mean.
Melanie Scearce
I really like how the bottom two look like they're wearing armor. Ginger knights! These are great :)
Nicole
1mo
Had a ridiculously fun time doing this… I know the idea is to use less cross contour lines but I wanted to see how well I could control it (which is I discovered badly). It is fun though. Eventually I’ll be able to get good enough to do master studies
@pmirko
1mo
trying to loosen up a little...
@pmirko
1mo
trying different pencils with procreate and having very different results...
Rachel Dawn Owens
Ha! I love the guy in the middle 🌱
Dani Torres
I had time to do two today. I like the push-up one the most 😊 It was the second that I did, maybe i was warmed up after the jumping one 🤔
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are rad! Perfect cross contour linework!
@pmirko
1mo
i can't manage to remove the anatomy out of the ginger men....all my attempts are too close to body anatomy rather than just blobs slowly going into characters... i'll try again without reference and see if i can stick to vegetables people....i also wonder if this s how Spiderman costume was born, or Colossus from Xmen...
Rachel Dawn Owens
This is a great cross contour study. Your form design rocks. Keep pushing it. If you want to abstract the forms of the figure more, you could try getting rid of the photo and use you own drawing as reference. Push the shapes. Play with proportions. Get weird.
Michael Longhurst
The first page is before watching the critique and 2nd was after. I tried to aim for interesting shapes, but not sure I improved much.
Dani Torres
I really like the horse!
Natasha Johnson
Hi , yup i probably need to do a redo on this one . Any critique welcome . Thanks guys .
Rachel Dawn Owens
It looks like you almost got it. You could maybe push some of the ellipses more. Make the foreshortened limbs more round. It will help with the illusion. Heres a couple of demo i made for other students that could help you too.
Evan Wray
2mo
Had a great time with this one. The overlapping lines felt like it really unlocked something for me, especially since I feel like I struggle with hyperfocusing on outlines/contour and this whole project helped!
Rachel Dawn Owens
These guys are so fun! I had to give them a go and drew my own version. You could add a more convincing 3d effect to these drawings by adjusting the connection points. I drew this out to help explain- Hope this helps. Keep it up!
Stefan Sharkov
I tiny Gingerroot dreaming about two other Gingerroots going for a high-five.
@shopdoc
2mo
Hoping someone can tell me if my cross contour lines are facing the correct position? Still struggling with this.
Melanie Scearce
Yes, you have the right idea! The two things to consider are the position relative to the horizon line and the position relative to the viewer -- is the object straight up and down or is it moving towards or away from us? In this gif, notice that the middle contour line when the cylinder is in side view is completely flat. You can't see either side of it, but it rounds out as the cylinder tilts back in space. The width of the ellipse of the cross-section become wider the more an object points towards or away from the viewer. It might be useful to draw the full ellipse as practice. Try to make the edge that's not visible lighter so it's not confusing. It's a good exercise for pencil dexterity as well!
@dollydigital
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