Arielle Ronin
Arielle Ronin
Germany
My purpose in life: drawing and eating :)
Arielle Ronin
Messed up the proportions. The fingers are too short (the boxes way too small) and the back of the hand too broad. Well was kinda afraid that it comes out bad so I kept myself from just experimenting. Think one can see this because the drawing and boxes look kind of constrained. Always interesting that the fear of making a mistakes leads to a poorer drawing than when one is relaxed and just enjoys the experience :O noticed this already a few times while participating in your course :)
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Arielle Ronin
Tried straight again
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Arielle Ronin
Wow that looks really amazing!!! Since this looks very professional I gonna go for a very detailed feedback :) I think the pose looks a little bit like you don't know exactly where to go. I did Muay Thai fighting for a few years and with these fighting poses there is always a very defined direction in which the force you apply go to. The base is always very solid (keep your arms and legs in your basic position to not loose balance) and only to block or attack you get a strong force in the diection you want to hit your opponent. In your pose the force of the knee is going to the front right and the hip of the character is twisted to the right so the hips direction is to the left. But in Muay Thai and MMA the force always comes from the hip and the shoulders. The arms and legs are more like an extension but the punch/kick comes always from the shoulder/hip. So I would adcive to either put the left leg in a position there it is pointed to the left (like the direction of the hip in your drawing) or to adjust the hip and the torso. Since the Torso and Hip/Leg direction go all over the place, he seems very unsolid and in a fight he would really fast loose his balance and be a nice prey :)
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Arielle Ronin
I strongly advice to view a few MMA fights (on slow-mo, bacause the fighters are so freaking fast that it's very hard sometimes to get what is going on) and there might be good explanations for fighting techniques on youtube or so. But be cautious, as a real figher I always get a strong headache on a lot of so called "MMA Fighters" on youtube who don't have the slightes idea how the rechniques work in the right way and are talking a lot of crap. The blocking and basic stand is so often a pain in the a**... So maybe there is a dojo or a fighting school in your town, they often allow to visit a few trainings for free. Maybe you can ask there to get a few techniques explained to get the overall concept or you study a few poses from artists who drew fighting manga or comic (nothing goes over the real though, cause in the comics and mangas I always see a lot of openings one could use in a real fight to apply a lot of damage to the opponent. But the poses need to look cool, so I get that for the artistic aspect).
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Mariyam Khaidarova
Working on this was super fun! It was a nice way to practice pressure control on my pencil. Hopefully, I'll be able to rely less on erasers with time. And... My proportions were off, so I ended up with a chonkier mouse.
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Arielle Ronin
They are so cute!!!
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Marco Sordi
2023/10/21. Good afternoon everybody. Here's my stylized hair study sheet num.6. Thanks and have a good week end.
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Arielle Ronin
Hi Marco! They look great! Since this is marked as "Asked for help" I think it's okay to give some feedback? I like the short hair version very much :) For the one with the long hair I think you can push the direction of the hair a little bit more. The long strands in your drawing are going all in the same direction. But when you look at the photo, the hair flows in different directions. Like on her back of the head, the hair flowes away from the foint of view. In your drawing it flows to the right (I put a little arrot at the spot where I mean it). I think when you follow the flow of the hair more like in the reference picture it will look more natural :) (sorry for the wobbly lines in my drawing, tendinitis got me good)
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Arielle Ronin
Thank you so much for your critique :) This course is so much fun and helpful! Thank you for all the effort and time you put in your project, demo and critiques videos. Your instructions are making drawing so much fun that it's pretty hard to put the pencil away :D It's like burning through those scetchbooks! :)
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Noe Luis
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I tried level 1 on this quite a flow of an exercise. Please tell me if I took notes very well or just okay I would like to learn more on self taking notes. @Arielle Ronin here are some drawings that you ask for hope you like it.
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Arielle Ronin
Woah they look very cool :D I like how you capture the gesture so well and your proportions are very nice!!! Do you use the landmarks or any other technique for the messurement or do you simply have a good feeling for the fitting proportions? @Noe Luis
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@bonnieblue
hi y'all, HELP PLEASE. Where are level 1 people supposed to quit? I missed where the stopping point is. Here's 3 hrs & 2 tries & I can't find the forrest OR the trees! I haven't missed any lessons, done all the assignments, draw on my own, etc & this is way beyond me. Don't get me wrong, I want to learn how to draw people, but this is crazy. What am I doing wrong? Thank y'all for all the help
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Arielle Ronin
Did you watch stans Video on the landmarks of the human body? This helps a lot to get a fet orientation points
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Lolo
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This course went from beginner to advanced real quick. Very frustrating, and the poses are too advanced and now seals make me cry.
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Arielle Ronin
I do think you capture the flow very good :) So you already see the important lines, so in my opinion you got the overall concept and the only thing lacking now is practise :) So keep up the good work! I struggled with this exercise in the beginning too. Than I took one of the reference Photos and opened the video, where Stan is explaining how to indicate the head, the torso, legs and arms. I followed the instruction of the video and drew the head etx. exactly how he explained in the video. This took a while, but helped me a lot to get a hang of it
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Arielle Ronin
Tried the overhand grip. Not that easy to control, I struggle with this grip a lot with the line weight. But this is a very fun practice :D
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Noe Luis
I did a quick sketch of the reference photo. I would like some feedback on the proportions. Also did I capture the features well Im only asking this because I still struggle drawing out the features.
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Arielle Ronin
I put your picture over your reference in my Affinity Photo programm. The red lines are your drawing. I tried to match the lines as good as possible with the reference. Proko did a video on youtube how to do this with a drawing program. The Video is called "Learn Proportions FASTER with this Procreate Trick". Very helpful :) Hope this helps to get a good review for the proportions :) Keep up the good work!
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Arielle Ronin
A little tip when you want to do this exercise a little bit more: when you google "wildlife Photographer of the year" you can find the website from the Natural History Museum. In the gallery you can find the pictures from 2010 to the current year. Lots of interesting stuff. There is one thats for underwater photography too (underwater photographer of the year). These are some very cool and sometimes weird creatures in there which are very fun to study
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Juice
Two seals from fantasy
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Arielle Ronin
They are super cute! Love the one on the right with the crossed flippers :D
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Ithel
I am so messy. These are some of my cleaner attempts.
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Arielle Ronin
They look so cool and fun :)
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Arielle Ronin
Think it depends on what you want to achieve with your gesture drawing. The very simple gesture drawings of 1 Min is in my opinion to get the first overall impression and the feeling on how gesture works. After understanding this concept you get to take more time and detail, to define the gesture. I use the different Level of gesture drawing for different purposes. The fast ones I use for loose sketches when I wand to get an impression very fast - like from live drawings or when studying proportions. When I wand to draw a detailed picture, I take my time to define the gesture. Sometimes a gesture drawing takes up to an hour (depending on the complexity of the reference).
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Arielle Ronin
This makes super fun :D
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Arielle Ronin
This is a fun exercise :D First I took the reference photo and drew the gesture as well as the points where the eyes go. Than I approached the concept with exaggerated Gesture and focal points. Than I drew the Gesture clean again. In the end I did the final aproach with a new shape design over all :) This helped me to visualise the process from step to step
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Arielle Ronin
Hi Michael, looks great! I do think you could push the dark and light parts a lot more. The light on the "forehead" and the lower edge are not that clear on the drawing. The "jaw" of the helmet is a little bit too long. I drew it in the Reference for you, to illustrate the distances. Love the detail and how clean you drew it :) Great drawing! Keet up the good work :)
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Arielle Ronin
These look nice! I do think you can push your darks a lot more. Have you tried to draw these formes with a black pencil instead of graphite? I do think that would be very interesting, since the shades get darker and you need to vary the shades with the pressure you put on the pencil. It's super fun and helped me a lot to get a good understanding on how dark to go :)
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Arielle Ronin
Hello! Since the Proko Dawing Basic course I scetch a lot more than before. What do you do to make your scetching the most fun experience? I love how to be loose and just try stuff. Today I scetched an axolotl with white pencil on black paper. This was super fun and an interesting experience that the white can be used for such light lines, that they are nearly invisible. What do you do to create variations in your scetching approach? :)
Lynn Fang
After 10-20 gesture practices almost everyday for about 1 month, I still draw very slow, and sometimes ugly. Better come here to learn from everyone. These are 30 seconds-3 minutes sketches below.
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Arielle Ronin
wow these look great! Love how you did the foreshortening! Well this is kind of funny :) I also realised that the more I get used to drawing gesture, the longer it takes. But honestly I do think this is a good because I do think more about whrere to put the line while not losing the overall feeling of movement. Your lines look very sophisticated too. Did you do the landmarks video?
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