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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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project-cross-contour-on-organic-forms.mp4
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project-cross-contour-on-organic-forms-transcript-english.txt
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project-cross-contour-on-organic-forms-transcript-spanish.txt
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project-cross-contour-on-organic-forms-captions-english.srt
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Level 1
Simple Blobs: Visualize how cross contours wrap around random blog shapes from different angles (add eyes and limbs if you want to make it more fun!)
Ginger Root from Photo: Start by drawing the ginger root from the photos provided in the downloads and then try to invent your own. These are essentially blobs that grow other blobs, like bloated tree branches.
Simple Creatures: Draw seals, sea lions, fish, worms, snakes, sharks.. any simple blobby creature from photo reference. Find your own photos on pexels.com or unsplash.com
Level 2
Complex Creatures: Draw more complex creatures like lobster, shrimp, beetles, etc.
- First do the lobster photo I provided in the downloads. Then find your own reference on Pexels or Unsplash.
- Start with simple dynamic shapes. Remember what we learned in the Shapes section!
- Add the cross contour lines to show the forms. Simplify, but not too much so you don't lose the essence of the form.
Change the Pose: Change the pose a little from the photo to force yourself to imagine the forms instead of only copying.
Deadline: Submit by 05/31/2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!
This felt like good practice being that I was surprised by how much brain power it took to lay down cross contours at the form intersections without it looking janky.
I loved doing this!!!! I'm not always spot on in the direction or spacing between the cross-contours. Especially the octopus had some unforseen difficult parts (good study stuff).
But then I got to the sea dragon; it was so awsome that I could literally turn it with the help of cross contours. They help me think way more 3D than I ever have done! And that really was a major goal for me in taking this course, so I'l be practicing this absolutely way more. And combining it with gesture gives it character and life instead of stiff drawings. I'm so thrilled!!!
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19d
Nice work, these feel very dimensional!
The turtles shell doesn’t seem to be a perfectly rounded shape from the cross contours you added
Some more practice after watching the video.
The technique aspect is relatively simple to understand and it feels as my eye are trained to KNOW what looks good. That's why I keep thinking how simple and easy it looks when Stan draws contour lines. The issue is, as Stan mentioned on the video, I am struggling imagining the shape/3D form and correctly placing the line where it makes sense and it works with all other contour lines.
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25d
These look awesome, all of your cross contours wrap tightly like rubber bands, and really show the depth, and volume of your forms. Great job, keep it up!
I honestly think drawing ginger is really hard since I have no idea where I should put the cross contour lines. I watched the demo and the critique video and am still confused. Could someone plz help? Thanks!
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26d
You got the gist of it! Ginger roots are really cool because of the growth pattern. If you pay close attention to the structure of the ginger, you can use it to place your cross contours. There's always a 'source' shape the the other forms grow out from. Simplifying helps you a lot here: identify that 'source' shape and then the secondary forms that grow out of it. Simplify those forms you've identified into well-designed shapes, keeping in mind the proportional relationships of those shapes, and how they connect to the source shape. I think you can improve your ginger here by figuring out how to better flow through those connection points. I hope my draw-over below gives you something to think about. You have the right idea, it's just a matter of polishing it up!
I've gotten somewhat comfortable with the gestures of the shapes but the moment I add cross counter lines - the drawing gets worse.
Very annoying. Guess there isn't much more to do but move forward and practice more.
I WILL NOT DIE, SCHOOL WILL NOT STOP ME FOREVER. Overall, I had a fun time doing the level-1 stuff; the level 2 was definitely fun, but a little challenging. I will do more Cross Contour in the future and really try to nail it in my brain, with more seals and stuff ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Practice with blob and ginger root. I use a ginger for cooking a lot, but never thought of drawing it.
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2mo
Great work!! These all look awesome, I love the squid!
Looking for feedback 👋
This my attempt at drawing a couple of ginger roots from reference. I feel like these drawings don’t quite sell the “3D perspective” feel of the object.
Not really, dude. They look pretty 3D to me. Maybe shading will help?
It was funny because, my first thought after looking at the image before reading the text was: WTF is this guy trying t draw? Ginger Roots? Oh yes, he is trying to do that xD
Great work, man
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2mo
Hey Jen! I made a couple of notes for you below. Hope that helps :)
