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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!
I suck at proportions but I felt pretty good about this. Gonna have to keep redoing it.
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Great work! This looks really clean, nice attention to line quality! Proportions will come with practice, but you're picking up a lot of great visual cues at this stage, you should feel good about this one! I notice there's a continuity break between the shoulder and arm in your character. Start to look for ways you can create the longest lasting line through whatever you're drawing. These connections or "rhythms" help keep things feeling connected. The shoulders can be drawn as one long arc so they feel like they're part of the same torso and function together. Watch Stan sketch the character again in red pencil, and you'll see these long rhythm lines. You did this really well with drawing the headband over the head. It looks like you established where the head was, and then you put the head band over it. Nice! This ensures the head feels like it continues underneath. If you draw through your forms you can build on top of a nicely connected structure making whatever you're drawing feel like one unified form. Take a look a this video, Stan covers "Continuity" and a few other mistakes to look out for! Keep up the good work!
https://www.proko.com/lesson/top-5-drawing-mistakes
The robot girl was challenging, but I was able to bring some knowledge from the last two assignments here.
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Nice! That is what it is all about. Layering your skills. They all end up helping, sometimes in unexpected ways!
The first drawing is my Lay-in for this drawing. I am not sure if I have done this project correctly as it looks more like a drawing than a sketch.
Feel free to critique my project if I have done it incorrectly in any way. Looking forward to watching the demo to learn how to sketch things correctly.
First two from Level 1 - I kept these are around 5 to 10 minutes each to avoid getting into too much detail. The gesture of the fingers came out pretty good. Didn't sweat the small stuff...like the inaccurate penguin feet.
Penguin done, hand submitted earlier. Just the last one left. Any feedback is appreciated :)
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These projects are turning out great! You have a good eye for proportions. Looking at this one and your hand drawing, my advice would be to focus on the amount of pressure you're putting on your pencil when you are making your lines. When you're laying in your initial searching lines, use barely any pressure, keeping those lines light.That way, they won't compete with the finalized, darker lines and give the overall line quality that 'hairy' appearance.
Great detail and accuracy! Maybe try it with looser / more expressive strokes. Don't be afraid to make this one messy.
More attempts using other people's images. Still sucks. I tried to use a lot more searching lines, especially on the deer. But unfortunately, I guess I didn't in retrospect. I felt like I had already gotten the lines right, so I didn't know how to use more. Furthermore, when I did use a lot of lines, I had to erase them so that I could see what was going on.
second attempt after watching demo and critique. Before it looked accurate which was actually a bad thing for this project. But now it looks inaccurate, AND my lines suck. 0/10. Complete fail.
I struggled with the penguin a lot! I haven't watched the demo yet and need to finish my other drawings before I post. Basically, I need to really improve so many things is hard to relax and have fun without making bad complete mess of the drawing. I feel your pain.
Sketched the hand. I'll sketch the rest in the upcoming days.
Will appreciate critique on this project hehe.
Okay this was a scary assignment as someone with no experience drawing anatomy and forms. But that's exactly where having a 'searching lines' mentality came in really helpful to get started!
@Nicholas Allott Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, I will def be studying the demo!
@Melanie Scearce Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! It gave me a bit of a mindset shift. Essentially the project asks for us to capture a draft/searching stage sketch, as if/as you are working towards a final clean version of it.
I tend to think of new concepts as pure 'techniques', and forget to consider it as part of the organic process of creating a final drawing.
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You did it! I agree with Nicholas, your searching lines look great in your penguin and hand drawings, but they get a bit wrapped up with the detail in the VR girl drawing. I would simplify a bit more- ignore some of the details and try to find ways to let your lines flow between the major forms. For example, I would try to use one line to connect the arms through the shoulders. You are heading in the right direction 👍
Well done! I can see more searching lines in the penguin and hand.
The robot is more single-lined.
Stan's demo on these shows how to use layered searching lines really well.
It felt a lot more challenging to do a drawing of another drawing. This surfaced some old beliefs about how I can’t draw. I noticed it was a lot more challenging than a photo reference of a live object.
It's painful to make large strokes that go through where other stuff needs to go in the drawing... I need to redo this assignment again after watching the demo and force myself to do it.
Attached are my 1st and 2nd attempts of the hand. I did not use any erasers on my 2nd attempts and kept the searching lines as well as the messy lines. Just so everyone knows that was killing me, but I tried hard to do the assignment.
i know we are doings lines; however, im excited to learn shapes, proportions, and values in the future.
im following the process and enjoying the new skills. More to learn for sure!!
keep drawing
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.
