Project - Simple Animal Portraits

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Course In Progress

Assignments 1.3K

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Project - Simple Animal Portraits

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

10K

Course In Progress

Assignments 1.3K

Downloads 8

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!

Bohdan Fedorchenko

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I overcomplicated things at the beginning and wasn't very happy with the first three. After the demo tried more and had a lot of fun. Even tried level 2, but the shape design is kinda lacking

Stephen Clark

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I get what you mean. It does look like you warmed up and then were having more fun exploring proportions and shapes in the later ones. My favorite of all of these is the ostrich. That one's got so much personality that you really nailed in your drawing. I also really liked seeing all the different variations of the bird on the last page. That kind of thing is so important to how you learn to utilize reference and add character and you seem to have a good hold on that!

Juan Andres Gonzalez Trejo

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I just did the rooster, more be cause all the funny faces (sorry for the last one), going to do other animals too :D

@landsloth

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Had fun doing a few of these the other day. Posted the ones I'm happiest with (forgot to save the ref pictures)

Moses

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Whew, this one was really hard again!!

@dukal

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I've done some simplifications from memory and reference. I've used the monkey from the live stream et moved on to my others simplifications I've previously done. My cat look a little bit like a dog but I like it. And I've drop a bean shape for bonus points 😂

@brimarie

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Hey Dukal You did a really great job - they all turned out great!

Jose Anton

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10d

Level 1. I tried to find shapes and make different designs for them. But I couldn't do it. I probably should have simplified everything more.

Martha Muniz

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10d

I think these are cool portraits! Though I think you already got the spirit of finding the simple shapes with your original undersketches in the blue pencil, as really that's the purpose of this practice -- finding the main structure to later guide the detail on top. So keep at it, you've got this!

Michael de Graaf

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12d

@brimarie

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12d

This exercise was very cool! It's super helpful to simplify - I want to deepen this approach a lot more. What do you think? Any feedback is welcome:-) ps: the buffalo was definitely the most difficult for me...

@dukal

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12d

I really like your drawings.

@deepanshu12

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18d

buffalo was harder than other two

Richard W

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20d

@juliusobermair

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21d

Melanie Scearce

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21d

Great explorations! These have so much character.

Blex

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25d

ok keept it very simple, don't want to do too much, but if it is to simple i could easily make it more detailed.

Caden Young

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26d

I really liked this one, but I'm still not quite sure if I simplified enough on some of them

Carlos Pérez

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1mo

These are my animals portraits. it was fun to get to know more animals that I would usually draw

Wesley

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30d

I don’t think they are simple enough. This lesson in on simple shapes.

@blackhand

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1mo

This was fun! Struggling a bit with things that aren’t birds, which probably means I should draw “not birds” more. Four legged critters in particular. I probably feel about them the way people feel about drawing hands, or feet.😆

Neo Diamond

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1mo

Had heaps of fun with this one! I'm level 1 but decided to do level 2 anyway. I feel like I definitely improved as I went along, especially in the last few.

Christian Peitler

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1mo

The hardest for me is the proportions, even the dont look good is fun :)

Rainbow Racoon

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1mo

Had a lot of fun with the rooster from the download section of this project. I took a more stylized attempt and really like how the old, worried rooster on the last page turned out.