Stan Prokopenko
Stan Prokopenko
San Diego, CA
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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Gannon Beck
Only halfway through the course?!! Holy cow. This continues to be the best value for one's art educational dollar. I find myself recommending this course constantly. This is an exercise that's already a staple in my regimen, and it's incredibly useful. Whenever I get in the weeds or just intimidated by an assignment, I remind myself that any representational drawing comes down to objects occupying space. Once you get a feel for how simple forms (boxes and cylinders) occupy space you have the master key to unlocking any drawing problem. Excellent lesson in an already excellent course!
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Stan Prokopenko
Thank you for spreading the word!
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Steven Wolf
Stan, when you said that this is the half way point of the course, that made me very happy, that there is going to be that much more of it. It’s been so great, and so helpful, so far. This course has been such a great investment! There were so many helpful concepts, so far, that I never fully picked up or understood from other courses, and or art lessons. Things that make everything else, that teaches concepts for line drawing, easier to manage. In that way, this course also adds value to all those other courses, for me. I just wish I would have had this course earlier because it would have saved me so much grief, and struggle. I really appreciate the thought and detail that you put into your lessons, Stan. Art teachers often explain things in ambiguous ways that leave me uncertain. But it’s clear to me that you really take the time to figure out how to explain things in the clearest way possible, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate it. I am feeling really excited about drawing, and my art goals are feeling more attainable. I can not speak highly enough about this course! It’s already a 10 out of 10 and it’s only half way through! I absolutely love this course! Thanks for helping fill in the gaps of my drawing knowledge. Sorry it won't seem to let me post without hitting Request Critique. LOL
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Stan Prokopenko
"Under promise, over deliver" I did the same with my Anatomy course and people were very happy.
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@pedrobranco
Watched the tutorial and wasn't quite sure if I understood this correctly. Want to know if I'm on the right path. Truth be told I've done these box people exercises a few times and drawing the blob is more unintuitive than jumping straight to the box for me. Did I misunderstand the tutorial? Am I entirely wrong? or is it more of a comfort thing? Sorry for the overlapping forms, I rushed this and miscalculated how much space I had.
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Stan Prokopenko
Ya it doesn't look like you're following the same process I did in the video. Blob --> Oval --> edge. Either way, if it's easy for you to jump right in to a box, this might not be a thing you need.
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Juice
What you said as an exersice to Martin drawing something else in form of boxes and reimagine the angle. I made that before with a cool picture and pose of the Hulk :) and made it from a different angle. I didnt post it though. It was fun!
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Let's see it!
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Lisanne
I was so excited to start drawing hands, but I found it really hard to focus on perspective! I feel like I totally failed to apply 3-point perspective and was drawing too intuitively. I had a hard time sticking to box/square shapes and as I started to lose confidence, my lines got messy. I'm definitely going to practice many more of these!
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I know exactly how you feel. One big benefit of targeted exercises like this is learning how to switch modes in your brain. Every time you try again after noticing that you were distracted by the hand and didn't focus on perspective, you are getting a little bit better at getting your brain to stay focused on perspective. So, I'm glad to see that you tried the same pose multiple times!
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