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Cross Contour Project Deadline Extended!
I decided to add in an additional project video to practice cross contour. I'll show you how I turn up the difficulty level on ginger root blobs and turn them into characters.
Deadline: 6-10-2024
Turn the Difficulty Knob
- Start with random ginger blobs. Make them humanoid by adding limbs and a head. Focus on mass rather than anatomy and proportions.
- Use photos of people in dynamic poses. Ensure the photos have depth (things coming towards you, body twisting, etc..). Avoid static poses.
- Create specific characters with pre planned proportions, like a monster ogre with a club. More specific characters add more constraints and chances for errors.
Refine the Drawing
Switch to a black pencil for cleanup. Focus on line weight and clean up your shape design. Adjust cross contours to show depth and volume. Emphasize interesting shapes and avoid symmetry.
Very fun project the first ones turned out a little too humanoid, so I tried to make them look more like gingerbread men. I'd appreciate any feedback :)
This was definitely one of the more enjoyable projects. I really like this mushroom professor.
Yes, he is my favourite, too. All your characters are really cool! But why didn't you trace over the feet of the first one?
Seem to be lacking behind a bit after these pros here but wanted to share because I had tons of fun. Effed up the right arm of the left character but decided it looks broken, so I added the right one as the one braking it and seeing the scene come together while painting the right character with no reference was fun af! Went a bit overboard with the cross contour, mainly to try out stuff with it and I didnt care as much about line quality because my searching lines in red were already messy :D
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17d
These are great!
This surely was fun. But not so easy as it apparently looks. Gave it a try 1st one from pose reference and another from imagination
A ginger root character crossing a soapy bathtub... stretching all the limbs to counterbalance body falling to one side.
I started to adjust the shapes to improve asymmetry and interestingness for characters, but somehow ended up as 2D character (the right one). Suspect that it is due to attachment of limbs were non-normal positions (intentionally), or body-contours were not curvy enough.
Some ginger root people for the assignment. I copied one of Stan's to get moving. Then picked some random pose reference.
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2mo
Very fun, the poses you chose are nice and energetic!
I don't really have one complete ginger root person (well, there's sort of one) but a bunch of little parts. I kind of struggle with the character design aspect of this, even though I know that's not the point of this exercise.
There's a head in here I kind of like though!
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3mo
I love these. They are super cute.
I found this difficult, there was a lot to think about at once. Gesture, 2d shapes, the 3d shapes/perspective, pose, etc. I think I shoulda started easier with just torsos / limbs. I'm happier with the last monster one I drew though
I tried and they look f***ing awful! I can't understand how people can draw such interesting things with just random blobs.
Here is my submission. I wanted to add some color (which I probably shouldn't have done), but I still had a lot of fun with this project. I know my perspective is not where I want it, I need to practice it more
Alright, here are two more Ginger Root people after watching the critique video. This time I used reference and I included the ones I did from imagination before for comparison. I don't know if it was because I used reference but I can tell I didn't design the shapes as well as the first two I did from imagination. Even thou the two ginger girls have more proportional errors. I used a mechanical pencil for the first pass and clean up with a 2B graphite pencil; I tried to use Depth line weight but, I don't think I succeeded.
As for the Cross Contours, I don't think I wrapped them around the form as well this time, specially with the ginger guy with big ring on his back.
I'm moving on to Gestural Perspective. Any advice to improve next time?
