Project - Simplify from Observation

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Project - Simplify from Observation

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

35K

Course In Progress

Assignments 6.2KLesson NotesDownloads 9

Use the reference photos in the downloads tab or go find your own reference and start drawing! Remember, this project is all about simplifying to clarify.

Make sure to keep these 3 things in mind:

Shapes - Draw your shapes with straight lines
Values - Use only 5 values. 2 in the shadow and 3 in the lights
Edges - Make every single edge sharp!

I'll publish my drawing demos of both levels next Tuesday so you can watch me go through the problem solving process. For a chance to be included in the critique videos, you must submit your drawing to the community by January 26th, 2023, so I can begin filming and producing the critique video.

Katerina Waddoups

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13h

I felt very confident in simplifying and creating the value grouping contours, but when it came to actually shading I had such a hard time! Tried digitally where I'm most comfortable, and then traditionally to work on that draftsmanship. I drew the portrait at an angle and didn't even realize until I took the picture, I have the raw drawing then the "corrected" one with some liquify work :,) y'all are so talented! <3

Kzip

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21h

Before watching the demo. Never drawn a day in my life, unless doodling while bored in class counts. Didn't quite hit the assignment bullet points (after watching demo) but just happy with the outcome anyway.

Andrew Kovachik

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I tried a one more pair after watching the demo. Some improvements and some a little worse. I think I did a bit of a better job of not doing too much in the shadows and keeping it a bit more of a shadow. But In this one I was having trouble getting getting the light tones differentiated. I maybe needed to use a sharpener to get more of the lead down. Aesthetically, I think I like my first attempt more but there was a quote I liked in the demo that we're learning to draw not how to draw a nice pear, haha. I think in the demo or critique he suggested crunching the whole shadow to one so that there would be more to work with in the light which I think might have worked better for this pair.

Andrew Kovachik

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Haven't done any drawing in awhile. I think it started okay but I didn't plan the edges of the different shadows too well. I might try one of the other pears keeping that in mind before moving on. My immediate thought from the example in the next video is I drew this waaaay too small, haha. Bigger is better I guess in terms of fitting detail.

Christian

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First time doing the pear drawing I didn’t give myself enough space to put the shadow correctly

folk

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my first jarring attempts both traditional and digital art, no abysmal idea what I was doing, but fun practice nonetheless

Autumn

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Project assignment - Did my first pear before watching the demo or critique

@dodle

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Here is my first attempt. I would love some feedback

Martha Muniz

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Hi! I like how you broke it down to very clear sections of the pear's surface. Thinking about the two major areas, light vs dark (basically where light hits directly and where it doesn't), can also help you organize your values more clearly. Keeping the area of light more distinct by starting with your light greys even lighter, using less pressure with your pencil or even using a harder pencil grade, is key.

Crow Semantic

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Jessica Ambron

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Martha Muniz

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Lovely work!

Lance Crescent

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Jeff Largent

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@michelles

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My first drawing submission. Would love to get feedback.

James Walker

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This is first version prior to watching walkthrough. I welcome any feedback/critiques.

Aengus McMillin

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first version done before watching demo. Using procreate but just a pencil brush to make it more like pencil and paper. Kinda happy with it but I know the shadows and edges could be much better. Shading the background took quite a while so need to get more efficient

Oscar

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You've done a good job with your shapes, but I think you need to seperate your values more. They're all quite close together, and there is a lot of movement within each value, leading to overlap between values. I only know which is which because of the borders you've drawn. For example I think you should be able to see that on the lower right, your halftone and light values are reversed. There are similar problems all over. Your shadows have the same problem. You've used a darker brush, which does help to distinguish them from the light family, but the line density is inconsistent and that means the value shifts constantly. Do dark lines widely spaced have a darker value than light lines close together? I'm not sure, but to me your values all read as being basically the same except for the highlights and darkest darks. As I said though, I do think your pear and shadow shapes are overall pretty decent, so if you can get a handle on your values you may be surprised how good it looks. Also I'm not sure of the etiquette of critiquing other students' work, so I hope this is not unwelcome.

Oscar

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Feedback welcome! 1 before and 1 after watching the demo. I plan to do more after watching the critiques.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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These are great pears! Solid shapes and values

Nicole

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My attempts in the course of 3 months :) The last two of course are the most recent. I always come back to this project if simply to test how I’ve been progressing. I’m very satisfied with how far I’ve come, but there’s still a long way to go

He Li

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My first attempt to draw this pear before watching the demo, I have basically zero knowledge of drawing, I tried my best to do it.

Melanie Scearce

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You got the most important part -- dividing lights and darks. That's a great place to start, so great job with that. I personally like to start with the lightest value in each group so I can work towards the darker shapes, which looks like how you handled your drawing here. The big light value shape flattens out your pear a bit, maybe adding another value shape as a midtone would help break it up a bit and soften the transition between the light and dark values.

Grant

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My attempt at the level 2 assignment. If anyone has some tips for clean rendering they would be appreciated since I feel I am missing something with mine.