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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!
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Nice Anthony! Looking forward to seeing how you progress.
First attempt. Got it done! I think I totally missed the point of the exercise though - i was too caught up with the contour on certain parts and then getting messed in the head trying to get the flow. It's pretty tricky to stay in one headspace over the other for sustained periods of time. Feel like I need to go back to this exercise and try more flow than fixating on contours and the proportions of it all.
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It's tough! These are good first attempts though. I enjoyed reading your notes. You had made a note about chicken scratchy-ness on your hand drawing, and I think if you simplified your lines a bit more you can avoid that effect. For example, where you segmented out each finger, you could try making those marks with one line instead, and add details to the contour once you have that one gesture line in place.
I wasn’t going to post because I feel embarrassed, but I am finding confident lines very difficult, I often spend a very very long time getting shapes and proportions right with lots of erasing so I tried to be more confident and came out with something I don’t think looks very good but hey I’m just doing the assignment 🥲
This is how I understood the assignment. I've made lines lighter from the beginning, searching for directions and proportions. Then emphasised the lines which looked good to me. Not sure I did it differently from my normal approach. Maybe in the demo I will learn how Stan is thinking during the process, so I could try again.
Update: after watching the demo and critique videos I could clearly see that my lines are too careful and clean here :)
I should strive for: the big picture moves, gestures, energetic lines.
I'm not sure I really did the assignment. Before I did these 3, I tried a few in "sketch mode", and they all just turned into "lost lines", as opposed to searching lines. Mine looks nothing like the VR girl he showed for a few seconds in this video, where every line is a sketchy tapered stroke, but is basically already in the right spot. Also I think I may have over simplified the hand, but hands are hard. This was a tough assignment.
The penguin was done with one of those Prismacolors. This is one of the first times I've used it, but I don't think I like it. It's too waxy, and it doesn't actually erase very well.
I know it hardly looks like a human hand, but applying the techniques outlined in previous lessons vastly improved my sketching abilities.
It took me a few tries to realize that I needed to slow down and plan ahead a bit more. Splitting the process into two passes helped me get the proportions somewhat right first, and then use the second pass to focus on the individual strokes and how I wanted to simplify certain shapes.
These are attempt 1 and 2. A couple of questions:
1. Which one better meets the expectations of this project? On the first one I tried going more loose, but wasn't happy with the line quality, size, or proportions. On the second one I slowed way down (took about twice as long), went a lot lighter, and spent more time ghosting my lines. I'm happier with the result, but I think I ended up doing something different than what the assignment was meant to be, though.
2. I also erased and redrew lines quite a lot on the second. Looking back I think the intention was, again, just to practice confident lines. I still tried to stick to that, but is erasing here not the right move?
3. Any critiques? Hit me with your best shots!
Here's my Assignment, once again still need to work on my proportions and page placement, both the penguin and hand ended up going off the page :(. VR Girl turned out good, but I think I might have gotten too granular and made her not as much of a sketch as it should be for the exercice.
Hiii Im back after watching the Demo and Critique video, I really screwed one this one huh, these were barelly skeches lol. Well, live and learn, here are my second attemp after watching the videos (Boy I need to train my elypses more)
