Tips for Pet Portraits with Aaron Blaise
CHALLENGE:Paint a portrait of your pet! If you don’t have one, we’re providing reference here. Any medium, traditional and digital, 2D and 3D are allowed.
Prizes provided by @aaronblaiseart, and @stanprokopenko
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The Judge
@aaronblaiseart is a world renown animator, illustrator, fine artist, and art instructor. Aaron graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 1989. He was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation where he spent 21 years helping to create some of the greatest animation films ever made including but not limited to Lion King and Aladdin. In 2003 he was co-director of Brother Bear where he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. After Brother Bear Aaron left Disney in order to pursue an opportunity back home in Florida. His work has been enjoyed by millions around the world. We are excited to have him as a judge!
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1st Place
Patrick Astilla – @patrickastilla
Prize – A signed original drawing by Aaron Blaise, 1 Signed copy of “The Art of Aaron Blaise, Volume 1” (to be released later in 2021), a 1 year membership to CreatureArtTeacher.com, the Proko Figure, Portrait, and Anatomy courses, 3 Proko Model packs, and their art featured on the Proko YouTube Channel.
2nd Place
Sarai Hecho A Mano – @Sarai.hecho.a.Mano
Prize – 1 Signed copy of “The Art of Aaron Blaise, Volume 1” (to be released later in 2021), a 1 year membership to CreatureArtTeacher.com, 2 Proko courses of winner’s choice, 2 model packs of winner’s choice, and their art featured on the Proko Youtube channel
3rd Place
Amira – @amira_the_drake
Prize – 1 Signed copy of “The Art of Aaron Blaise, Volume 1” (to be released later in 2021), a 1 year membership to CreatureArtTeacher.com, 1 Proko course of winner’s choice, 1 model pack of winner’s choice, and their art featured on the Proko Youtube Channel.
Proko “Team Choice” and Best of Jake
Italoa Humada – @italoahumada
Prize – 2 Proko courses and 1 model pack.
Roundest Cat
Maya – @the.art.cookie
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Best of Bear
OzKa Scribbles – @ozka.scribbles
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Best of Rice and Bean
Dicky Oka Wahyuda – @dickyteenz
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Fluffiest Cat
Inna Stefanova – @stefahen
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Best of Suki
Erzebet Zsofia Ferencz – @coccinella_artempunctata
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Best of Blue
Chandler Ellison – @cj.ellison
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Exciting Draftsmenship Award
Puddleface – @puddleface_
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Beautiful Rendering Award
Amelia – @pixus.art
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Best of Eva
Alex Muñoz – @alex.munoz.art
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Traditional Art Award
Mercelo Rochá – @artrocha
Prize – 1 Proko course.
Random Winner
Matteo Di Pasqua – @matteodipasqua
Prize – 1 Proko Course
Honorable Mentions
Other Honorable Mentions in no particular order.
Jasmine C – @corvus_hound
Yanis Savolainen – @xellmet
Bianca Faragó – @faragobia
Chandler Ellison – @cj.ellison
Augusto – @gutomonn
Tessa Cardinal – @tessacardinalart
Heather Lenefsky – @hlenefskyart
Brett Colonell – @brettcolonell
Thumbnail Art by Puddleface
Filed in: Animals/Creatures • Critiques / Q&A • Portrait / Head
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These entries are absolutely wonderful! They’re all so different in style, but all are arresting images and so well done. Congratulations, artists!
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Thanks for this honorable mention!☺️
Wonderful challenge. This was my first time ever that I took part in a challenge. I believe not the last one)) Glad you like my Mishka cat
Hey Stan, there’s a subject I always wanted to see in a video, but I’m not sure if you already talked about it or if you are thinking of covering it in the future, and it’s how much real anatomy should I know if I’m looking forward to become a comic artist or anime artist.
I’ve seen the video of you drawing a superhero comic and the questions and answers video where you said the fundamentals can be applied to anime too, but I wanted to see more on the subject on how can I turn what I learned in realism into a fictional character and. I’m not sure if I can apply the caricature course for that because it’s not exactly what I want.
I’m mostly into anime, so I was looking for a video on something like how to apply anatomy to understand Vagabond from Takehiko Inoue or Dragon Ball from Akira Toriyama, but I was also interested in understanding more in how to understand the exggerated proportions of the Incredible Hulk or Wonder Woman. What’s the best I can do to learn how to use anatomy to do interesting fictional characters?
Best Regards.