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Deadline: Submit your assignments by 06/15/2023 for a chance to be featured in the next critique video!
Level 1:
Create animal portraits using basic shapes. Try to simplify the animal using 10 shapes or less. Keep your shapes organic and simple. Simple shapes could be stretched, bloated, indented, or curved to capture personality. Don't worry about perfect proportions. Instead, focus on creating cool, simple designs. No details or shading! Use the three reference photos I provided and find 5 to 10 more.
Level 2:
Take Level 1 assignment and push them further. Play with your basic shapes and size relationships to give the animals different personalities. Don't hesitate to experiment and look for additional references to understand your subject better. Now, go have fun!
Well as much as I don't like this type of drawing, I see why its a good exercise for many reasons.
First crack L1. Found it particularly difficult to choose shapes for the big undistinguished blob of the hippo. Also difficult to limit to under 10 shapes for the bull.
Good work. I found the hippo the hardest as well.
There are some shapes you missed, but you'll see them in Stan's demo. I'd recommend taking some notes from it and then trying again on your own. From there maybe try some other animals to see if you can apply the ideas fresh again.
My Level 2's. I found roosters the best looking, beetles the easiest and hippos the funniest.
My level ones. Hippo took me 3 tries and giraffe 2.
The last five were left handed. It was harder to get smooth lines with the left but they're getting better.
Images all from Unsplash (aside from the first 3).
Way harder than i thought, especially for level 2. I started off with level 1 and expanded to level 2 from there. I really didn't want to refer to the demo even though i was tempted to, had to least try it myself first.
I thought the rooster was the simplest, followed by hippo then buffalo. Part of me questioned if i was doing it right and feared they were all too similar, or if the shapes i was using was too safe and needed to be more organic. I ended up trying a fox, bird, and flamingo too.
The hippo felt really tricky to me, but the buffalo and the rooster were pretty fun! I wasn't sure how to do something like the bison's horns or rooster's hair with "simple shapes," but I did my best! I also tried to do a few other random animals just to practice the concept a bit more.
Like how you kept it to simple shapes. Some seem to be doing more complicated shapes - but as I haven't yet watched the Demo I'm probably wrong :-)
Learned a lot from this one! At first, I sketched different animals to see if I liked their shape design. I really enjoyed how the dog turned out, so I played around with its shapes and proportions.
With some of the other animals, I found myself simplifying them down to just the head shape, eyes, and nose... so there wasn't a lot left to play with without losing their "soul", it happened with the squirrel and frog.
started with the rooster and got the momentum going, then got stumped at the buffalo for some reason
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Tried some shape experimenting aswell, the bearded dragon and rooster were very fun. Organic moose was difficult but I found a better composition when I tried to use more triangular and squareish shapes.
Bearded dragon ref courtesy of @Max down below :)
https://www.proko.com/s/HdYt
i like'em, especially the hippo, was struggling with that but you found nice lines!
I loved this assignment! I’m ‘drawn’ to playing with form and shapes. So helpful to start simple and then add layers of complexity. Did each of 3 the animals straight from his references, then did another more playful version. Will do more after I see his demo.
This was an interesting exercise that made me realize that I need to work more on shapes. It wasn't easy I struggled a bit at first, especially with the hippo because it has so many possibilities, but in the end it was a very valuable lesson for me.
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Nice work. I love how you broke these sheets down. Really thinking about what you're doing like this will help you grow much more quickly than just sketching out the assignment. Well done!
