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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
- Start with random ginger blobs. Make them humanoid by adding limbs and a head. Focus on mass rather than anatomy and proportions.
- Use photos of people in dynamic poses. Ensure the photos have depth (things coming towards you, body twisting, etc..). Avoid static poses.
- 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.
Here is my submission. I wanted to add some color (which I probably shouldn't have done), but I still had a lot of fun with this project. I know my perspective is not where I want it, I need to practice it more
Alright, here are two more Ginger Root people after watching the critique video. This time I used reference and I included the ones I did from imagination before for comparison. I don't know if it was because I used reference but I can tell I didn't design the shapes as well as the first two I did from imagination. Even thou the two ginger girls have more proportional errors. I used a mechanical pencil for the first pass and clean up with a 2B graphite pencil; I tried to use Depth line weight but, I don't think I succeeded.
As for the Cross Contours, I don't think I wrapped them around the form as well this time, specially with the ginger guy with big ring on his back.
I'm moving on to Gestural Perspective. Any advice to improve next time?
First try! These were done from imagination. The second one turn out more sloppy than the first one and I couldn't get the body type I wanted right. Makes sense, since I haven't done figure drawings in a while and I can see I made the back leg on the first one much shorter than what should have been. That didn't stop me from pucking up the bend arm on the second one, and on that note she turn out fatter than what she should maybe (most surely) because I'm fat too.
Anyways, I did my best to make sure the cross contours wrapped around properly to their respective forms. Did I succeed?
This was fun! Somehow the ginger root characters felt way easier than the actual ginger ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Wow these look great. And yeah, sometimes having an actual character to play with makes it more fun, and when we're having fun, it comes out in our work. Nice job!
Because I like doing organic shapes a lot more than boxes, my figures and drawings often suffer from being too-rounded. I see this clearly in my ginger root people. Incorporating square parts in a drawing is hard for me. I was very focused on the cross contours and forgot a little about avoiding snowmen.
Instead of the marvels, I was actually thinking of Popeye the Sailor Man. He’s basically one of the only root people I grew up with. Feel free to criticize, but please keep it positive. Thank you!
Off to watch the critique video - but here is my first batch of ginger people. I definitely started to feel the mental "pressure" when switching from a red pencil to regular ol' graphite...maybe I need to just stay in the red.
These were really fun! I had a great time experimenting with the shapes and proportions of each ginger root person. Having to draw cross contours all over their forms forced me to think about what their exact 3d forms were, and while it was really hard at first, it became much more intuitive after a lot of attempts. It was really helpful in shading too, now that the turning edge was established it was easier to map out the shadows and split the values into light and dark. I assume professionals can 'see' this system of cross contours/plane breaks in their mind without having to draw them every time. Can't wait to get to the value/edge section soon and see how this knowledge is used there.
I love these! Especially the balance between square and round elements of their bodies.
First set of ginger things (cannot say that it's people, will try to make some more human like next time)
I feel like as soon as I have to draw from invention/imagination I immediately forget everything I know about drawing and can only come up with incoherent scribbles. But after a while and a bunch of attempts I managed to get a couple I like so here they are. (Also rip the last guy he got cut up for a soup)
I plan on doing a lot more of these guys, it doesnt feel as intuitive as i'd like right now.
This project was really cool! I hope my people did not turn out to be too humanoid 😅
