Gannon Beck
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5h
108th Day of Proko and counting.
Two and five minute sketches.
10h
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Busy week this week, but I wanted to participate before the deadline.
Great job, everyone!
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15h
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I drew 100 Mouths. This was hard. Teeth are weird. I need to learn how to shade and render forms better. Lip textures are labyrinthian. I struggled throughout. Still; worth the practice, especially with some angles and expressions. Consistency evades me. Anyways. Oh, and tongues are aliens that live in our mouths and for some reason we aren't constantly freaking out about that.
Gannon Beck
12h
Holy cow, these are great! What was your schedule like when doing these? That is a ton of work you put in.
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1d
107th Day of Proko and counting.
Two minute sketches to start off the day. It took a few to settle in.
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2d
106th Day of Proko and counting.
A few two minute sketches.
2d
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Ugh, haven't done any of that since the 12 Days of Proko and it shows. I really should find time to practice rhythms more often. And line quality. But how does one do it since there are soooo many things to practice?
2d
Out of everything in the course, this is the lesson I've spent the most time on. I have a thread I post to daily in the community section. The daily drawing is helping me automate some of these rhythms approaches. Feel free to join in if you like.
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3d
105th Day of Proko and counting.
One, two, and five minute sketches.
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4d
104th Day or Proko and counting.
Two minute sketches.
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5d
A few more from today. One, two and five minute poses.
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5d
103rd Day of Proko and counting.
I've got a new iPad and even though I know I'll be drawing later tonight, I wanted to test it out.
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6d
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Here’s my first attempt at this assignment, it’s a Trabant. Because the lighting is not great in the photo of my physical pencil drawing, I decided to retrace it in Procreate as well. Hopefully it makes my intended lines a bit clearer. (Still working on my manual line quality :-/ )
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5d
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Level 1 - BOX CAR!
I had a lot of fun with the boxes here.
Will try to focus more on the cylinders for lvl2
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6d
102nd Day of Proko and counting.
Two minute sketches tonight.
6d
Hey guys! I have tried my best, but I feel like I don't improve... Does anyone have any advice? (I attached 2 minutes and 30 seconds gesture drawing here) Thanks!
I had a lot of fun with this one. The shape design was the most challenging part. But once I got some inspiration from the work of Chris Ayers (who has amazing shape designs, btw.), it went so much better. I can't wait to continue exploring shapes more in the next lessons.
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6d
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I feel like my art life is coming full-circle---or full-ellipse as the case may be.
In 2007, I bought Marshall's DVDs on perspective and this was the source that finally taught me how to handle cylinders in perspective correctly. It is the single greatest upgrade to my art ability that I've ever experienced. I was a 35-year-old working artist at the time. Until then, I would just work around the limits of my knowledge, or live with wonky illustrations, of which there were more than a few.
Shortly after studying with Marshall's DVDs, I had to do a T-shirt design with a truck overturned on its side for a Marine Corps unit. It's exactly the kind of thing I couldn't do before, but with my newfound knowledge that felt like having a new super-power, I could do it.
Since then, I've become somewhat of a connoisseur of lessons on drawing cylinders. For something so basic, it's amazing how many books and resources take it for granted--or worse--teach it badly.
Stan's explanation is the best one that I've ever seen. Not only does he cover how to do it right, he very efficiently lets you know where the potholes are so that you can avoid common mistakes that would otherwise plague your art for years (I speak from experience).
For all you young whippersnappers out there--or even the older late-bloomers--you've struck artistic gold with this lesson. Master it and your artistic life can change as did mine many years ago.
I don't post to it anymore, but here is a link to a blogpost that I did in 2008 shortly after getting on the right track with cylinders, thanks to Marshall.
https://gannonbeckblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/practice-makes-practice-experimentation-makes-perfect/
Proko is the best.
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Hello!! Is this one "on track" for the assignment? I did it without looking at references, just by thinking of a box-toy-like truck lol. I'll do more of those, till the demo, but i wanted to make sure that this was on track of the assignment. Thank you!
6d
Good job, Conrado!
On thing to look out for is to make sure your minor axis points to the same vanishing point that the lines on your box are converging towards. You might know this and have just missed (which happens to all of us), but I thought I would point it out just in case.
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Side view completed, I'm still having a hard time with applying ellipses to the ribcage and pelvis, but other than that I'm slowly understanding the 5 step process from gesture to form. I'm just happy to even attempt this stuff.
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7d
101st Day of Proko and counting.
I did miss a day yesterday. It was bound to happen sooner or later. If I only miss one day out of 100, I'm fine with that.
These are 2 and 5 minute drawings.
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8d
100th Day of Proko and counting.
The grueling schedule is done. Deadlines met.
Looking forward to longer figure drawing sessions. These were two minute figures and five minute portraits.
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