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Here’s a clip taken from the premium critique of the drawing basics course.
The assignment was to simplify a pear or a portrait down to its shapes, values, and edges. In this critique, I break down some of the common issues I saw students have with their shape design. I’ll give you advice and talk about proportion, asymmetry, and improving your shadow shape design. If you enjoy this critique and would like more be sure to check out the full course.
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Pear Critiques are here!
Critique for the portraits coming Thursday, but I recommend level 2 students watch this critique video too. I give advice and demonstrate things that should be useful to both levels.
Did a few pears after doing a study of Stan's demo. I think I did better on getting a clean value but I would still like to practice where to put dark midtones and how to differentiate light midtone and highlight.
After watching the critique:
I did the 3rd pear for my third attempt. Trying to not outline any of my edges. Any feedback I would appreciate it.
Multiple pear attempts after watching the initial video and demo, followed by my most recent attempt, which was made after watching this critique video. Would appreciate any critique/feedback (specifically on my most recent attempt) :)
Lots of errors in the first few, but I wanted to include them to show thought process/progression
I suck at drawing and couldnt afford this course so i decided to look at the pear and try my best to make it look good
I'm a total beginner. For a long time, I didn't even have the confidence to draw a stick figure. As a child, my drawings were often ridiculed by my friends and my sister (they weren't being mean, just kids being kids), but I eventually lost interest because it just wasn't fun anymore.
I spent my entire youth and adult life avoiding drawing, even though I’ve always loved looking at art. Now, in the year I turn 40, I’ve decided to finally dedicate myself to learning.
I’m currently struggling a lot with line quality, motor skills, and hand-eye coordination, but I’m practicing every day to improve. Drawing this simple pear was a really cool experience for me, and I’m happy with how it turned out!
Before watching the demo and after the demo.
Thanks for sharing this. Your pear looks great. I’m a total beginner as well in a similar boat (loved drawing as a child but lost confidence somewhere along the way). It is encouraging to see such progress from other beginners.
Any advice would be appreciated. First drawing was done before watching any of the example videos and the rest were after.
I couldn't find any 6b pencils, so I had to make it work with a charcoal stick lol. I think I'll give this another shot when I get some 6bs, my core shadows are definitely too dark
Absolute beginner here! Feedback welcome!
It was tough to understand the transition of shadows. Am I correct in thinking you can't have your darkest shadow next to the dark 1/2 tone (third lightest)? Is that what Stan said? Plane changes and all.. I went back in and placed the lighter shadow in between... Learning to think differently here is kind of exciting!
Yes i think he mentioned that if there is a very dark tone in a light area it looks spotty and not making a transition between whats supposed to be shadowy or not, because this is just identifying the areas for shadow. But this is because this is a study to just determine the transition. Your pear looks really good!
Second attempt at the first pear with a before and after. How was this? I tried to simplify it a lot more after seeing the pear critique video
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The shapes that you chose in your second version read much more clearly than your first, nice job!
Hello, Just got done with the first assignment and demos. Any constructive feedback is welcome!!!
Did I mention I have never been able to draw? Everyone in my family can, its never come naturally. Here are my very 1st attempts….
