Gannon Beck
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Because I'm basically twelve, as I look at everyone's assignments, I can't help but think of this.
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Nicely done!
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128th Day of Proko and counting.
Twenty second sketches.
This is a bit of an experiment to see how fast I can get a gesture down. When doing urban sketching, where models don't sit still, this is a practical concern. There is tension between how long I can hold the image of a pose in my head and how fast I can get it down before the image evaporates from memory.
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Here are some exercises from me. The first page was done using reference, and the second page was done from imagination.
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Super helpful project! Used the timer tool to get the blobs down quickly, and then took some time to refine in passes.
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127th Day of Proko and counting.
100 thirty second sketches.
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I find that theres something about the belly and the hip that compels me when i'm drawing these female figures
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Following along with the video. I can see my lines getting cleaner as I go.
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For some reason this was not easier... Drawing the blobs first helped me put them in the right place in relation to each other, I think. But then turning the blobs into boxes was somehow harder than just drawing boxes. And in some poses I wasn't able to figure out the proportions correctly...
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These look pretty good. I get what you're saying about proportions, but that can come with practice. The big victory is that you have dimensionality on the three movable masses of the torso. You've got good convergence going on your boxes, which is making them look believable. That's huge.
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I think it's really cool that when you describe only one side of the legs, you've done it so well that the mind fills in the rest.
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126th Day of Proko and counting.
Some madman (ahem @Devon D. Yeider ) suggested we do 30 second sketches in our drawing Zoom call this morning. It's definitely a workout!
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I drew 100 Ears. This took longer than I intended. I had some real-life stuff(quite the rarity). Enjoyed my time amongst these cavernous cartilages. Trying to improve my shading. Some of the different angles were hard to get. I definitely used up some erasers with these. I think the biggest challenge was the impersonal nature of the subject matter. Other features are evocative but ears, especially the unadorned variety, are not especially emotive. I think that's why I found myself dragging my feet a bit. All in all, plenty to improve upon, but happy with the practice.
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125th Day of Proko and Counting.
I spent a good part of the evening reviewing the bean lessons in Stan's figure drawing course. When I did my timed figures tonight (5 minutes each) I built them on the bean exercise. The bean parts are in blue.
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Hello everyone! Hello Stan "The Proko" Prokopenko, the one and the only! Happy to know that we will be getting more 50% of your sapient draftsmanship wisdom. Here are my level 1, almost level 2 (but maybe not quite) attempt on the project, because i don't know much about the blob proportions of head/torso/hips . But i tried to ovelap the blobs/boxes so it have a little feeling of depth. I'll do more of those during the week, maybe with references so I can tackle the level two better. I got an "off-topic" question: after i complete this course (at least on level one), will I be able to tackle your other courses? Like the figure drawing, anatomy and the portrait? Looking forward to the Marshall perspective course too!
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Others can jump in on this question as well, but in my opinion if you've gotten this far in the course and have a reasonable understanding of the lessons so far, you're set up for the other courses. The one caveat is that I would do figure drawing and the portrait course before the anatomy course. The anatomy course is a deep dive and goes into even more complex forms. You might enjoy that more after some of the other courses.
What you're going to find is that the concepts Stan's other courses build on the concepts in this one nicely. For instance, you're going to be thinking of the head, ribcage and pelvis a lot. You'll think of the gesture of it, you'll think of the ribcage and pelvis as balls in a sock. You'll eventually carve them up into more complex forms, and then layer muscles on top of them. All the while you'll never stop thinking of the boxes they fit in--the hight width and depth that define the space they occupy. It's always, always, always there. Get that consistently wrong and all that other knowledge won't matter. But since you've taken this course, and made it this far, I'd say sign up for more courses. It's not like there is a a time limit on finishing them, and you would probably both learn a lot and enjoy them.
Revisit this course as needed as you take other courses. I wouldn't quite describe this course as a beginners course but rather a course with an emphasis on fundamentals--which is great for beginners--but also for more seasoned artists. We should all be practicing and working on our fundamentals throughout our artistic lives.
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This was helpful. The twist poses were particularly challenging. I could almost feel the synapses in my brain straining to reach out to each other.
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I did a few of these. I've done this lesson before and I don't feel like it's my strongest skill. Not that the ideas aren't useful, especially the idea of stretch and pinch, but I apparently am not great at drawing ovals.
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Didnt get as much done today, but lets see how long i can keep this up for...
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These are great.
One thing I would say is don't feel the need to do a million every time. Even if you just have time for one two minute sketches, it's still a good placeholder for the habit. Sometimes life gets in the way, so don't feel like you need to give it an hour or two every time you sit down to draw. There are days like that for sure, and there are days where it feels good to just get five minutes in.
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I thought I'd try charcoal this week. For some reason I feel much more loose with it but also it's harder to place the lines where I want to. And easier to make a mess ;)
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Very nice. In addition the gestures, I like the structural one as well. I haven't done it in a while, but I find it useful to get a good dose of those every so often.
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124th Day of Proko and counting.
Two and Five minute drawings plus a sketch cover.
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10 two minutes figures, I switched to the overhand grip to get more curvy lines, I normally draw with the tripod grip, still getting used to it, any feedback is appreciated!
