oliver lindenskov
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Just got in a quick sketch - hope it's in time
I guess Skelly finally had enough candy corn?
Tried to go for a more painterly approach for this one in the name of stylization.
oliver lindenskov
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Thanks a bunch, @Charlene 😁
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This is just meant to be a study before I do the main thing. Lol I look like an evil psychotic polka dot clown. If I could please have constructive criticism on anatomy, face planes, light and shadow and shape design. I'm aware the shading is messy as this was meant to be a quick study before the main event. Graphite pencil on cartridge paper.
I love the concept and the intensity! Personally I would probably unify the darks more, to separate them from the lights. I believe this should also make the lights seem brighter and more intense 😊 so, for example I would darken my right side of the nose.
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I decided to do a ‘full’ under drawing for this one. Any comments on shadow patterns would be appreciated, as the reference has a ton of ambient light making it flat so I had to invent quite a bit to get some interesting shadows 😊 good luck guys
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plaster cast of cadaver study - please help2yr
I would really appreciate some help or advice on this one.
I can tell that something is clearly not working, but I really can't tell if it's my values / modelling , if it's construction, pencil handling or something else. I am a bit stumped, honestly.
Thanks in advance :))
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Hello Guys, I just completed the Joints assignments and was looking forward to get some constructive criticism on my assignment. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to help me out. Thank you!
Hey you! I think these look like you have a great understanding of most of the simplifications of the skeleton. although, I do think your palms should taper down towards the wrist, so instead of being the same width at the knuckles and at the wrist, it should be narrower at the wrist. hope this makes sense. :)) good job
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Here's my entry :)) I used photos 6,11,14 and 16
Hey Oliver,
Nice job on this still life. I think you did a great job on turning the form on these, and the texture you implied with the highlight works good. The only thing that jumps out to me is the cast shadows, they are very dark and my eye goes right to them. If you have light bouncing into the shadow of the fruit, it would also bounce into the cast shadow, lightening them. Remember, the eye is drawn to the area of highest contrast, and those shadows are really drawing my attention away from the fruit. Hope this is helpful :)
The answer to your other question is: Yes, you can always sell your art!
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Still Life of 2 grape fruits (oil on toned paper)3yr
I did this sketch/still life the other day. The painting in painted directly/opaquely on grey paper primed with shellac.
And it seems a slight bit off to me. Any recommendations on improvements? One thing I have been thinking of is if the edge from light to dark is too sharp.
Second question: does anyone here have an opinion on whether or not I could sell this? And even what price it could be sold at? The piece itself isn't very big (a bit under 10x10cm)
Thanks in advance to anyone answering
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I think you would benefit from doing more messurements or comparing angles and so on, but this is looking promising
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Can people actually draw anatomy that detailed from imagination? You gotta have a reference to do such an extensive task or idk how.
The big things like gesture are the most important, so you'll really med to be able to create a good gesture and/or skeleton to attach the muscles to, but if you know the anatomy and you are good at the other things it is definitely doable 😁
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So you can really hold your pencil in any way you want depending on what you are trying to draw and probably most importantly what medium you are using, and as Dan said: proko and drawabox are great resources to learn that from and their differences. Most of the courses on proko though are not beginner friendly. You can do the figure course but anatomy isn't worth your time yet I would say.
Since you are beginning, I am guessing you are pretty excited to get started, so I would start with something 'boring' such as drawabox.com and sprinkle in a few things you are passionate about.
I would do some still lifes, choosing simple object that aren't too far from basic shapes such as spheres, cylinders and boxes. Simplification is very important and doing perspective (drawabox) alongside still lifes will help make it easier to understand why you are doing it. It will also make it easier to draw from photo reference in time since you should get a better understanding of volume and form.
All that said though, if you don't listen to yourself keep grinding and don't adjust what you are doing to what you want at all, you'll burn out. Remember that you are doing drawing because you want to.it shouldn't be a chore for too Long at a time, especially not in the beginning.
Hope this helps and I am happy to answer questions.
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To me, nothing jumps out as needing fixing!
I might desaturate the blue in the sky a bit, to remove some tension from that area, but otherwise it's rocking!
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Honestly, I think your own feedback for yourself is pretty spot on, as far as I can tell. I would just do it again, and try to get the right tilt of the head and work on smoothnes of transitions. You have good unity in shadow and light shapes as far as I can tell.
As Peter said a light lay in before you start adding tones makes it a lot easier to gauge things like tilt and proportions.
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So, I think there's some really good feedback here already, and you should only pick a few of them to work on at a time.
I have two points though.
Each element reads fairly well on it's own, but you are missing reflected lights to bind it all together and feel like it's all in the same place. For example, the blue of the water would shine up on the underside of the fox, so I would add some blue in there and some orange from the fox onto the water.
If you have something really colorful, you can try sitting next to a window and holding up the colorful thing next to the shadow side of the skin of your knee, this should illustrate what I mean :))
The second point is about the construction/perspective of the fox's head. Since the ear to our right is closer to the viewer it makes it easier to read if it is larger than the one on the left, so I would make it larger or make the left one a bit smaller.
All that said, I think you did a pretty good job with a complex composition
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I think you've done really well and it seems like you understand the origins and insertions of the muscles, mostly. The only thing I could find was that, for all I know, the origin of the medial head of the deltoid attaches a bit further in on the clavicle. (Mostly for our right one)
Although likeness might be slightly off, it's not the purpose of this exercise. You have a believable human body with good gesture. It obviously doesn't hurt to do one more, but I think you could savely move on.
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I think the rythm you found for the right leg in the first four gestures you did would work really well for the outside of the thigh, but I would add another gesture line going from the knee down along curve of the shin bone. And stop the one for the leg at the knee.
Also, it's really great that you test of where the limits are for exaggeration, 'cause you can't exaggerate infinitely without loosing believability.
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Day 9.
Notes: Caught up ever so slightly getting six done today.
I am quite, quite sick of doing sculptured dudes with beards! Quite.
I'm finding too many poses in this challenge are a) sculptured guys with beards, b) sculptures and c) slightly off straight on to about 20 degrees). It could do with more variety.
I'm also finding I'm committing more time to drawing with this challenge, where previously I'd kind of wander off after a while to play games or other distractions. I like having this focus.
Almost halfway, phew.
Also had fun trying to do my favourite traditional style digitally: charcoal/carbon with some pastel (wrens). Do bird heads count as portraits? :p
Once I've completed the challenge I'm going to watch Ahmed's video of him drawing them all, but I don't want to watch it before I'm done so I don't start just copying his ideas.
Help: The pen drawing (#36) was really hard with so much beard detail. How do you simplify that? It was so chaotic I just couldn't find shapes unlike #38.
Hey Dan, I do realise that I advised you find a way of constructing the heads, and I think that looks to be working really well for you as far as alignment of features and feeling of form. Good job! However, for things like beards and large hair I sometimes find it easier to use an envelope and then work inward from there, but it might work better when you aren't using permanent mediums and can erase a lot. Cheering for you!
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I think it is really good but you need to shade little bit more darker.