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Pick an animal, a bug, or some kind of creature, and find several reference photos to use as inspiration to sketch a new character.
Don't copy the photos. Feel free to explore with proportions and exaggerate or simplify things to make it your own. Do multiple sketches to experiment and try different ideas.
Once you think you have a clear idea of a character, do one full page sketch. Even in this final sketch, try to use loose, confident lines and focus on the shapes of the character you have in mind. We're trying something new here with this project by starting to develop our ability to draw from imagination. So it might be a bit of a challenge, but don't sweat it.
Let's keep it loose and rough with our sketches and just focus on letting those creative juices flow. Don't focus on the cleanliness of your lines. We're sketching, and when you post your assignments, please include the photos you found and all your experimental sketches.
If you'd like to have a chance to be included in the upcoming critique videos, you must submit your drawings below by March 9th 2023.
And don't forget to have fun!
I picked scorpion flies because they looked cool, and Hollow Knight is one of my favourite games so I wanted to see if I could simplify a bug like they do. The first few sketches I copied from reference, just to see which features would stick out more. I liked the pose in the third image, and turned the fly into a sort of diva character where the wings were a scarf and the legs were a sort of cravat. I kind of abandoned a lot of the sketching advice in the final drawing because I was busy trying to figure out how to design it to look cool, I think I might redraw it again later. But it was fun!
I loved working on this. I couldn't help but ink the lines to see it come to life. It is my witch's familiar in a DnD campaign that is capable of camouflaging as jewelry.
I think I may have more sketching to do and breaking down of the different body parts and the details. I'd like to keep pushing this artwork further.
Feedback is welcome. I tried not to erase my construction lines. I am doing all of this digitally.
Moths look really cool. I like how the foreshortening came out (especially the hands). But i think i got impatient towards the end, and the legs are a bit off.
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11d
What a cool combination of ideas turned into a really cool character! My one suggestion would be to experiment with darkening some of the lines to give a bit more clarity to your drawing! From far away, the details get a bit lost. Nicely done!!
Something is off with the legs and I'm not quite sure how to make them better. But I hope the idea with the wind is readable though
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15d
Love this! The wind is totally reading. Sheep are tricky because of so much fluff!
Like with drawing people, it is often easier to draw the sheep naked (or as close to it as sheep get!) Finding a pic of a sheared sheep might help. Their wool drops surprisingly far down their body. Also learning the anatomy of 4 legged mammals is very interesting. What we often think of as their elbow (where you have the little curly bit) is actually their wrist! They are really fun to learn to draw, and once you learn one mammal, most are very similar.
Again love the drawing. Such fun character.
I thought it was going to be easy, but it looks like my imagination didn't go that far. Hahaha.
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16d
nice haha
This was a fun assignment! I think I picked a bit of a hard subject because leopards don’t have super distinctive proportions. My last pic is the “final” one and I’m pretty happy with it. Would take any critiques.
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17d
You ended up with a very cute character, nicely done! I like how you leaned into the big eyes, ears, and paws.
I chose the capybara as my subject. Attached are my references and sketches. Final sketch is the Dancing Queen - sorry if some of my S and C curves are a little bit too thicc.
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17d
I love the personality you've given your capybara. Excellent!
I stumbled upon these little guys (tarsier) while looking for an animal to draw. I thought they had really funny faces so I decided to go with them. I felt like I drew the ears kinda wrong on that first full page sketch so I tried fixing them but I think the first one still has more "character".
And curse their freakishly long fingers.
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19d
I love these. You captured the expression perfectly. They're so weird and cute!
I really enjoyed creating the studies for an alligator but I didn’t have too many ideas on what to change. Alligators are cool looking!
Originally did an octopus but after watching the critique i decided it wasnt enough and settled on doing the Great Blue Heron. Had a blast with this, what a majestic creature. The last page is the one where I drew from imagination.
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25d
Nice shapes 👍 Keep up the sketching!
Originally did an octopus but after watching the critique i decided it wasnt enough and settled on doing the Great Blue Heron. Had a blast with this, what a majestic creature. The last page is the one where I drew from imagination.
Ok so I I started by trying out mice but the fur on the reference photos made it hard to identify edges so I quit and made caterpillars. it shows that I hadn’t warmed up lol Then I continued with lambs. the quality of my drawings fluctuate a lot idk why. By the end, I really enjoyed drawing the two jumping lambs. I did however start copying the images instead of creating my characters because I realized that maybe I’m not ready to play with proportions and features yet and need to work on my fundamentals first. All in all, it was fun and I got more confidence to just jump into it rather than staring at the paper or wasting time to search for the perfect references. Thank you!
Using last bits of energy and finally some cool air to also do this assignment.
I feel like I bit a lil too much. antlers in perspective are really hard and I probably should´ve figured out the lizards head in this angle before doing the final. Been winging it a bit but hey, its workable. Things to improve but could also have been worse.
What do you think I should try to improve the most? What´s the weakest skill?
