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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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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.
okay! So, I had a lot of fun doing this, but one thing I noticed was that I was doing a lot of the redoing and trying again, which helped me kinda understand cross-contour more (I would say). However, for the future ... I REALLY need to stop being a perfectionist TwT (also, these images kinda range in a timesense... so you might see a difference in terms of quality, definitely NOT at the same level that Stan did it, but I think I did a good job. Also, like mid-way through, it kinda was struggling with applying the concept of cross-contour, so I went on Sketchfab and found some simple and kinda cute 3d models that I drew from, which you can see in the third image TwT). (Also, another note for future me, stop drawing at the very top of the canvas ლ(ಠ益ಠლ))
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5d
Wow! These are insanely creative and expressive!
AMAZING sketch page.
I was trying to make them fight. The guy on the right has been hit with the guy on the left following through. NOT sure about the legs and feet. Anything that can help me improve is appreciated
The more I look the more I want to put a disco ball in and say they are at the ginger ball. Lol
I loved doing these!!!!
They became characters so easily considering where I came from before I started this course. I did see that sometimes my shape design can be better (less symmetrical) and the placement of the ginger body parts in connection to the ground or other characters can be done better. So keep on drawing these ginger buddies!
Hiii. Gotta love the freedom of creation. It was so nice to let the hand flow thru page.
Wow I didn’t think this could just make me come up with poses from imagination so easy!! Woooow some Proko magic. Gotta keep working on it!
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2mo
Your cross contours look really great here! And I love the settings you put these ginger root people in :)
My ginger people got a little less blobby as a I went along but hopefully the contouring still holds up fine.
I got a few poses - unsplash.com has a lot of sports athlete images, which helped me find dynamic figures.
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2mo
Nice, I like the posing!
Brainstormed on first page then on the second page exaggerated the proportions. Didn’t resemble ginger but I can imagine these characters being made of ginger.
