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Thank you Dave,
I wanted to say I have been a huge fan of your work for a long time. It is an incredible honor to actually get a critique by you. Probally watched your youtube stuff 100's of time trying to pick up little things from you.
Learning from you in a more classroom environment is a dream come true.
Its a good thing to see my drawings another screen, which shows how much more I need to improve on. I appreciate the challenge of all of this, because this is exactly what I needed.
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In this lesson, I dive into a ton of student assignments and give feedback on their character thumbnails. You'll see firsthand why it's so important to push past your first few ideas to get to the really unique designs. I'll point out what makes a silhouette strong, how to tell a story with a simple sketch, and how much detail is just enough. This is a great way to see what a lead artist looks for when reviewing work and choosing a design to move forward.
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Your best character ideas show up after you push past the safe ones.
Let's dive into a ton of student assignments and I'll give feedback. You'll see firsthand why it's so important to push past your first few ideas to get to the really unique designs.
i indeed like to explore every possibilites haha ! Glad to know it will be useful in the process !
Thank you mister Greco ! i'll will follow your feedback and keep up the good work !
I finally managed to watch all my way through this critique video Dave. Thanks so much on putting this course together a ton. I have been learning so much from ya on this course and looking forward to the upcoming lessons and assignments.
Thank you so much, Mr Dave! It is such an honor for me, that you critiqued my work with those kind words! I really appreciate it! :)
Thank you so so much for the feedback and nice words <3 I had just chosen the options you mentioned! so awesome ^^ now I'm really excited to move forward with these characters and see how far I can go
Thank you so much for the compliments Dave! To be honest, I still struggle with worrying about cleanliness, even during the sketching phase, that's why they are all so clean XD. Concept D wasn't the one I decided on for the next assignment you gave, but I am glad that you enjoyed the idea, might develop that one further in my spare time.
Thank you so much for your feedback Dave! Im very happy that you also liked nr 5, because it is my personal favourite as well.
Duuuude, thanks so much for the nice words! I might wanna do number two for detailed thumbnailing. I did two others but now I also want to dig into that little luggage lady.
Thank you Dave for taking a look and for all the nice tips, really helpful! Also great to see all the other designs, styles and choices of the other artists here, you guys are doing such cool stuff!
Thank you Dave,
I wanted to say I have been a huge fan of your work for a long time. It is an incredible honor to actually get a critique by you. Probally watched your youtube stuff 100's of time trying to pick up little things from you.
Learning from you in a more classroom environment is a dream come true.
Its a good thing to see my drawings another screen, which shows how much more I need to improve on. I appreciate the challenge of all of this, because this is exactly what I needed.
I honestly didn't think I would the first off the bat, I'm honored. Thank you Mr. Greco for the feedback it's great to see that I'm on the right track with ideation and exploration.
Since I already went ahead with my chosen designs in the Detailed Thumbnail assignment I think I'll go back and create Variants for Maren Design C, The Entity Design C and Mikkles Design G for the sake of it. It always helps to get someone else's feedback but now I feel even more motivated to do more.
Thank you for the feedback Dave! I got some ideas of where to push this character next now :)
Thanks for the feedback Dave! It's really encouraging when someone sees potential in a design - especially one that isn't necessarily the artist's favorite. Definitely a boost of confidence!!
This is great. Having gotten just a bit of guidance I feel much more confident in pushing forward. Thanks so much for the feedback. And thanks to the other folks in the course too--it all feels very supportive.
