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Use the three reference images of clean line drawings and sketch them using simple loose lines. Don't try to match the cleanliness of these drawings. Instead, sketch them out with energetic, tapered strokes. Don't hesitate. Just practice moving your arm with confidence. If you draw some lines and then you realize that, Oh, shoot, I need to curve that more. Go ahead and just draw the new curve right over it. As you get more confident that you've found the shape, you can darken those lines and the lighter lines start to disappear. Focus on the big idea and the shapes the lines represent, rather than on each individual line.
For you, Level 2 monster trucks, I want you to start with this Level 1 project as a warmup, and then head over to the Learning to Sketch from Imagination project page for your instructions.
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.
Good luck and please have some fun!
While I see flaws and areas to improve I’m happy with how it turned out.
I'm not saying do this as well but I found using the draw for 14 day challenge as a place to slow down and focus on confidence as well as experimenting with what made me feel more comfortable when it came to using the pencil, navigating the drawing/page and ghosting in lines.
Can’t wait to keep learning! 👍
Hand and Penguin were each drawn in 2 hours. But to draw VR girl took me around 12 hours.
Here's my try at this project :). I know I have a long way to go, especially with knowing where things should be, but I think it went better than my snail/boots project. The VR girl was extremely difficult for me, I considered skipping her when I had so much trouble "mapping" her out, but I gave her a try any way.
I tried do my first attempt as fast as possible, hitting each line once unless I majorly messed it up. Took me about 3 minutes to get kind of close to the penguin.
About how long and how focused do we think this step should normally take?
And then here is my robot girl! Switched to red and did it a little more like how the lesson wants us too, but still fast. Maybe 7-8 mins?
Improving but I think I need to work on bigger paper. Draw a light outline at the beginning for proportions and somehow end up cutting off part of the picture by the end anyway.
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Nice drawings! Yeah that is the perenial problem. The number of times I've started a drawing only for the head to go off the page lol. Bigger paper has the added benefit of you using your whole arm, which is always a good habit to get into.
My practice in these lessons. Please tell me how I'm doing in my progress, some feedback.
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3d
First off, really nice drawings. The one thing I would say, and this might be because you're cleaning up the line work, is to allow yourself to be a little more sketchy at times. Find your lines with light marks, and only then dig in. But overall really solid. I like the penguin a lot.
Hands... Why did it have to be hands...
All jokes aside, I tried not to focus on the wonkiness of the hand and focus more on the quality of the lines. I don't think they're quiet as "sketchy" as we're aiming for, but I guess that's why this is a project.
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I think you did the hand pretty well!
The hands were harder than the boots, which sounds rather crazy to me.
The girl was not too bad. I did a first sketch with a blue marker, then attempted again with a light pencil then went over with single ,more confident lines in a darker pencil. Same with the hand sketch.
Started with the the three references supplied by Proko, Penguin, hand then VR girl.
I wasn’t very satisfied as it didn’t feel “sketchy?” enough for me.
I went and bought some red pencils and tried some other pictures I found on the internet. I focused on big connecting lines first, then cleaned them up as I went on.
I feel much better about these.
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That's awesome that you pushed yourself past the requirements of the project. There's a lot of improvement between the two batches. I especially like how you simplified the armadillo. Nice work 👍
I did the VR girl first, I think the drawing is a little bit messy/dirty because of the eraser I use, it smudges the pencil... I am going to buy a better one. Anyway, it was easier than previous exercises, maybe because it is not real life. I had fun drawing her.
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Make sure that you're starting out with light lines as well, that will help keep the eraser mess to a minimum. Your VR girl looks great!
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You have a good eye for proportion. The lines in your penguin and hand drawing look pretty loose and gestural. Keep up that energy. The VR girl drawings get a bit more stiff because of all the detail. Look for areas you might simplify to one stroke instead of two to get a bit looser. Overall though, great work!
I couldn't draw it well without checking the proportions, so I made sure to measure them while drawing.
The circles on the VR girl are really difficult.
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Wow, you did great with the measurements! Super accurate.
I think I did an okay job with the penguin and the girl but the hand was sooo hard to draw. They will definetely be a challange in the anatomy lessons.
I really enjoyed this one. I think the hardest part was holding my inner perfectionist back. Those fingers are definitely not proportional lol.
I’m slowly getting more comfortable with observing shapes and placing cleaner lines. Still a long way to go, but I’m enjoying the process! :)
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The embellishments look really cool. Nice work :)
For the penguin these were no searching lines but fighting lines for me. Especially, for some reason, I head trouble with the head. Took me a while to place this simple line in a penguiny fashion.
The hand was alright, had a bit trouble with proportions.
Eventually, I decided to loosen up more with VR Girl and forced myself to work quicker. A bit unfortunate placement on the page.
This was harder then expected and definitely a good exercise for me!
This was interesting it took me a while to loosen up and allow myself to sketch rather than copy I think by the VR girl drawing I was able to loosen.
Drew these 3 exercises within an hour, before watching the demo. still have to improve on the CSI.
I'm impressed with your hand, especially for as quick as you did it! I know we weren't supposed to worry too much about proportions but mine was clearly awkward looking and it drove me a little crazy. I think we struggle with the same thing, making confident lines. I tend to be too sketchy (I've heard the phrase "avoid the furry kitty" aka fuzzy lines), and I see some uncertainty in your lines as well. I think this is something that's just going to take practice but you seem to have a good eye for this!
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Nice work!! The hand came out really well. This is a lot of good work for an hour session! On the next ones, try to focus on your proportions a bit more in the early stages of the drawing. Keep up the good work!
