Proko - Project - Dynamic Shapes

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Project - Dynamic Shapes

Stan Prokopenko

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Stan Prokopenko

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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My level 1 and 2 assignments. It's hard to tell a seal from a sea lion.= = Seals more cute?

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ASSIGNMENTS

Download the photo reference images of seals and sea lions.

Level 1 - Draw from Reference

Draw their gesture and design dynamic shapes using the concepts from this lesson and the previous lesson.

Remember that gesture is not the contour, so don't just copy the outlines. Look for the movement and energy throughout the shapes. Use your whole arm and use the looser sketch line that we learned about.

Level 2 - Draw from Memory or Imagination

Start with the level 1 project and after 5 to 10 poses, turn the page, put away all the reference photos and do more drawings from imagination or from memory.

You can try to invent your own poses and design those shapes to be dynamic. Or you can try to remember the poses you already drew and use those as inspiration. Try to push and design with a focus on drawing dynamic shapes. It doesn't matter how accurate you get to the original photo, it's more about designing the shapes to look dynamic and interesting.

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Deadline for submissions to be included in the video critique is next Thursday (8/24/23)

* Because of the large amount of reference images, it would help a lot of you include the reference you used for each drawing. I'm more likely to select your submission for the critique. Thank you!

@justsev

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35m

I really tried to push the gesture, but I think I got caught up in adding too much detail, as per usual... I'll try to ignore them even more in the next ones. They were initially done traditionally and I traced them digitally.

rheannon

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20h

This was a great project to do! Much less stressful than measuring proportions 😂

Jon B

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How much fun are these?? So happy with these ACTUALLY looking like sea lions ha! First time since I started drawing last month where I didn't feel it took me ages to get the core shapes identifiable and roughly proportioned. I'll watch the demo next and retry - felt like I still didn't quite know 'what' or 'where' to push zor emphasise to really capture the sealine energy or pose. It was fairly simple to see the structure and support Vs non, but really hard to know where to push peaks, bounce angles etc - feel like I didn't even have scope in my brain for most of it. On a positive I REALLY worked hard to be loose and sketchy - final result is 2b lines in but the underlying was loose and tapered to help me emphasise the flow of the body/limbs (I figured that was an equivalent substitute for 'motion' in the fish case - harder when some of these may be static). Ofc line work itself is a bit sloppy and needs far more time if I was going to dig into line weight/importance etc properly! Suspect the demo will really show me how to 'pop' the flicks of the neck/position of the flippers. Comments/critique/thoughts welcome.

Oya

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Your line weight is drawn really well! The sea lion proportions are very accurate too! Keep up the great work

Umbre on

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It's such a fun exercise after the precise proportion one. I just turned off my brain and started drawing; it was almost cathartic and was the most fun I've ever had drawing. More seals to come tomorrow

@mis_74

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My level 1 and level 2 attempts

Rain Kipper

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Level 1 attempt. In learning chess it is said that winning-losing ratio should be 1:3 for fastest learning. I think this attempt captures the target well... I liked the exercise.

@coldemptyvoid

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My attempt

Ben Kraske

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You have some nice shapes! I like the flow of the seals' bodies that you've drawn here, good work!

Nicholas Allott

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My Level 2's. Two from memory twice and the last image has 3 from imagination with not much reference. 😌

Ben Kraske

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Great work with your notes and observations! I love the poses you imagined for your seals :) Nice!!

Jonah Jenkins

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Turbo Fish

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It was so unexpectedly cool to draw seals

Victor

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11d

Level 2. I found it quite difficult to get started without any reference material, but I’m quite happy with the result.

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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10d

These are great. I really like the top right one on the first page. The shapes are reading really well and you do a good mix of straight lined shapes, with rounded shapes. Well done!

Victor

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11d

Second attempt, level 1. This exercise was really difficult. Some of the poses were really hard to capture. I’m pleased with how some of the seals turned out, but I’m not sure if I’ve focused on the exercise properly.

@wonkbunny

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12d

Some seals sketched from reference.

@reebley

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13d

here are my seals and or sea lions I drew the green pencil on a few of them was after some peer view

Samuel Gariépy

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13d

Seals and sea lions from references and from memory.

Melanie Scearce

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13d

The pantene seal and the um actually seal are hilarious. Nice job on these!

Howard Fullmer

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14d

Seals and Sea lion #5

Victor

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14d

This is Level 1. I think I have to improve the line quality, because it looks terrible.

Ben Kraske

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13d

Definitely not terrible! Keep up your practicing, and your line confidence will grow! :) Nice job! Maybe some of the warmups from the Line section would be a good jumping off point. Keep up the good work! https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/warmups-to-improve-line-quality

Nicholas Allott

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15d

Five more level ones, this time digitally. 😎 Reference 1 probably took the longest and is the least exaggerated.

Howard Fullmer

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14d

These look good :)

Howard Fullmer

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16d

Todays sea lions are from reference 4

Nicholas Allott

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18d

My first five level 1’s done with ColErase pencils. I plan to do a few more with my Intuos and then move on to level 2. I aimed to push every pose to be more dynamic than the photo and also have a loose and confident line quality. I referred to this summary as I drew: Dynamic tools 1. Shift mid and end horizontals and verticals 2. Add pinches 3. Change size symmetry 4. Contrast detail 5. Change overall shape angle or multi shape gesture.