$127.20
$159
You save $31.8
Bundle discount Each additional course part in your cart adds 3% off all courses, up to 15% off.
Full course
You’ll learn the most important foundational concepts for drawing anything and soon you’ll be drawing pictures out of your imagination or from reference.
$127.20
$159
Give a gift
Give a gift card for art students to use on anything in the Proko store.
Or gift this course:
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
DOWNLOADS
ASSIGNMENTS![]()
![Nicholas Allott]()
![]()
![Larry]()
![]()
![@ctellez]()
![]()
![Jonah Jenkins]()
![]()
![Larry]()
![]()
![Anthony]()
![]()
![Chuck Ludwig Reina]()
![]()
![Shubi K]()
![]()
![Melanie Scearce]()
![]()
![Georgia Price]()
![]()
![Larry]()
![]()
![Kristina]()
![]()
![Kristina]()
![]()
![Rob Simmons]()
![]()
![david burrell]()
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!
My Redo of this exercise using photos for Unsplash. I was aiming for more loose, confident lines this time. Its an improvement I think. I'll keep working on it.
Done with Col-erase on paper and in Krita with both my right and left hands.
These were my aims:
• Refer to Stan's examples throughout for a similar line quality
• Confidentially accept the first lines are inaccurate, but guide the later ones.
• Show the overall flow and gesture – not aiming for accuracy
• Big shapes to small
• Multiple confident light line passes, darken as you go
• Big, smooth and loose lines (disconnected). Exploring. Searching lines
• Whole arm, tapered, follow through boarders.
Reference photos from Aldo Vuka, Chris Charles, Dmytro Koplyk, DuoNyugen and Marc Julien.
Here are my 1st and 2nd attempt on the 21/185 VR Girl.
still working on my lines; this one was very tricky! Took me around 3 hours each. I did take a break every 30 minutes for around 10 minutes. Each time I came back, I could see areas that I did not notice before break.
2nd attempt I left more searching lines, but still erased more the I should. For some reason when I would come back to my drawing, I would notice my angles and relationships were way off. I know the more I draw these will hopefully get better.
working on 2nd attempt of hand now
Here are my sketches. I tried not to erase anything and just make the lines I didn't like fade into the background. I also ran out of room on the page for my hand which was a bummer because I was pretty happy with how it turned out minus the weirdly bent index finger.
I definitely need to work on this exercise more. I could feel myself constantly wanting to scratch out chaotic lines rather than searching lines. Part of it is my inability to see proper proportions until it's somewhat in front of me. The second penguin on the right was so much clearer since I started out with basic forms to place it and then thickened the lines around it.
I get what you’re saying. This morning I posted my 2nd VR Girl. Still not good with not erasing and leaving searching lines!
I like your looseness and searching lines! That is the exercise
im going to work on my 2nd attempt of the hand. I’m going to put eraser away and see what happens
keep drawing
•
5d
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.
•
4d
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 🥲
I understand your comments. But just think we haven’t gone over proportions and shapes yet. I think you did a great job.
i have posted my 2nd attempt of the VR Girl earlier today; working on drawing the 2nd attempt of the hand.
my focus, like you stated in your comments, I’m going to try and focus on line quality and searching lines. I’m going to attempt to draw the shapes but not worry to much on that right now. I’m going to attempt to draw the next one with no eraser😱
leaving my searching lines
keep up the good work. I know I have a lot to learn but am enjoying the journey
keep drawing
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.
