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Thank you everyone who watched, asked questions, and helped me with the drawing!! I spent another hour fixing some things. Here's the final.
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Ask me shading and portrait questions!
It's the last day of the Proko party! I'll be answering questions based on shading and portraiture while I do a portrait demo using my charcoal and graphite technique. Also tune in for a final giveaway to you, our Proko community.
Get free passes to Vision X Live - first 50 people only, go to visionxlive.com, add the Pro Pass to your cart, and checkout with discount code SEEPROKO
Better late than never, I guess :)
Thanks for the lesson, Stan! Was great fun and loved that charcoal powder technique you showed. Would definitely like to do more of these charcoal/graphite draw alongs in the future if there's any plans for it.
Thanks Stan. Missed it live but went through it on my own. It was such fun using the kneaded eraser on the brushed charcoal - like magic! I’ll definitely be doing some more of this. Here’s my attempt following along. Anybody have any ideas where I should go from here?
I do not feel comfortable with charcoal and my strength is graphite . So should I just use graphite on my potrait ?
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Sure, you can use graphite, of course. You can also practice charcoal and get comfortable with it so you can be more versatile. It's up to you.
This seems backwards to me. Perspective is not super easy for me, but it looks to me like the vanishing point should have gone towards the left, and here it looks like it is going off to the right. Does it have something to do with using the front camera as opposed to using the back camera or vice versa? Did the video come out in mirror image?
Never mind, I think you just answered my question, his head is slightly tilted to the left and angled down.
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Thank you everyone who watched, asked questions, and helped me with the drawing!! I spent another hour fixing some things. Here's the final.
As usually, looks great Stan. I am amazed of the result you get in the amount of time you had. while also answering questions the same time... Wauw!
I wasn’t able to watch the last live stream but just in case you weren’t able, will there be a course on serrealism?
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No plans for one right now
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It was cool!
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Thank you for stream! I was whole time!
Is it totally lame to 'hide' your signature in the drawing vs putting it plainly in the corner??
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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