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As you decide where to place lost edges, consider these specific areas:
- Shadows merging into dark backgrounds: This is a natural place to lose an edge to create depth.
- Lights merging into light backgrounds: This can make highlights appear to glow.
- Core shadows: You can remove a core shadow if the dark stripe between light and shadow provides too much volume or information for a specific area.
- Distracting details: Remove information completely when small details, such as the sharp edges between teeth, distract from the main focal point.
For this project, you will be drawing a skull using the reference images provided.
Level 1
You will create a fully shaded drawing with a focus on deciding where to lose and find edges. Some reference photos have two light sources. This gives you opportunities to play with losing parts of the skull into a light background.
Don't be afraid to lose edges, find them again, and lose them again. This back-and-forth experimentation is how you discover what works.
Level 2
For a harder challenge, use the out-of-focus reference photos. Because the photos are blurry, you cannot simply copy the edges. You must interpret them to refocus attention on the center of the face. You are inventing the relationship between sharp, firm, and lost edges.
Recommended Materials
I recommend a pencil that allows you to utilize the side of the lead. You want to be able to quickly fill in areas and play with the edge freely. A sharp tip takes too long for this type of experimentation.
- Graphite Pencil: Sharpen it longer so more lead is exposed.
- Clutch Pencil: A 5mm lead works great.
- Charcoal Pencil: This is often the best option because it allows for easy smudging.
Deadline - submit by February 05, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Still cannot believe that this was the last assignment of the course!
I decided to do level 1 both digitally and in charcoal and level 2 digitally. Charcoal is so hard to control!
Thank you so much Stan and the rest of the Proko team! When I look back at my earlier drawings, I can see that I came a long way, even if it doesn't always seem that way day-to-day. Such a long way ahead, and so many things to learn, but I'm sure that I'll always keep the fundamentals with me :)
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6d
Excellent job, these all came out great! I love the simplified grouping of the teeth in the first one, and it shows a really nice mix of edges. Nice value control through each of these, you were really specific, and reserved with your highlights in the first one, I love the blown out hotspot rim light in the charcoal, and you captured some really nice reflected light in the third! Keep up the good work!!
Finally, here is my submission for this project. All drawings were made with graphite and a selfmade blanding stump - pre demo.
The first skull is level 1, skull 8. The second one ist based on level 2 skull 6 and the third drawing is based on level 2 skull 4.
Please let me knoe, what you think 😊
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7d
I love this! You've created such a spooky, ghostly mood with your mark-making and the lost edges.
Went to the zoo and took pictures of a western gorilla skull that was on display and decided to practiced my values and edges.
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9d
Nice grouping of shadows and simplification in the teeth! Great work!
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10d
This looks fantastic--I love the darker edges you put in here and there. Even though they are just darker lines, they still help communicate the dimension successfully.
Level 1 and 2 of lost edges. 1st 3 are level one and last 3 are level two and I am very proud of these.
Here my submission from a real live reference (a plastic skull sitting in my room) fine with charcoal - about three days after watching the demo which obviously influenced it heavily. I wish I had tilted the head more or found a more interesting position. Somehow, almost by accident, it ended up very straight.
Personally I feel I struggle with gesture a lot in a constant fight between sloppiness and looseness. The later seems to be achieved with confidence which comes from practice.
I found it also difficult to control the charcoal at times and couldn't erase some of the lines any more. But I just love charcoal. I feel I like the paper is very important too. This was done on some cheap printer paper.
I have learned a lot from the course. Thank you very much Stan for this high quality and carefully curated course!
Yet, so much to learn 😁
This was fun! I tried drawing the teeth and ... ngl, I have NO idea how to draw teeth, so instead I decided to put a lost edge where the mouth is AND another lost edge where the light was coming from. It gave me this effect that I really like (◕‿◕✿) (I also did quick thumbnails)
I challenged myself to change the light source on level 2 skull 7. I kept the ring light and added a stronger light source from below as opposed to the ambient light. I learned a lot from this project, and I see I have a lot more to learn!
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1mo
This looks fun and ominous! Good job!
My first attempt at the Lost edges, I was trying to use the charcoal pencils I think some parts came out good but I'm not to sure about others parts of the drawing.
So happy to finally finish this giant course!! I learned a lot and improved a lot! Thanks to everyone so kind to reply and share critiques.
I went too dark to start, and I struggled to fix it! This was my second attempt after watching the level 1 demo. I am taking my time, but I think I need to slow down even more to really think before making marks. Phew! I can’t believe I’m almost done with this course!
Attempts for L1 and L2. They required some experimenting since I was working digitally.
This assignment made me really think about how the background could be utilized in terms of value composition. I feel that it has helped me a lot with being more conscious when designing backgrounds.
In retrospective, I don't think I experimented enough with losing the edges within the silhouette, other than the teeth.
These edges are so good I can almost taste them lol. It's weird when a drawing feels tasty.
I like how the top half of it turned out. I had trouble with proportions in the lower jaw, and thought I fixed it during my lay-in but I guess not. Still an enjoyable project. Any feedback is appreciated.
Here is my lost edges assignment! I'd love advice on this. I liked the rim light on the right and wanted to make it pop with the dark background. I have trouble usually with thin rim light and wanted to practice that. I let the cheekbone get lost into that dark background and then I lost most of the left side into the background as well. I wanted to add a light area in the background on the top left to make sense of the rim light and lose another edge there, but the graphite stick I was using for that wouldn't fully erase so I couldn't fully get that the way I wanted. I know there is a lot I can improve here and would love any comments about that as I had to make a lot of changes and was struggling with some of the decisions I made. Thanks!
My assignment for Level 1 (first two images) and Level 2 (third image), before watching the demo: I used a graphite pencil and a blending stump. Feedback is welcome :)
