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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.
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Suzanne
4d
Super excited for this course and improving my abilities. Would love to hear your critiques!
Ps. the highlights are not white anymore due to copious amounts of erasing and redrawing (as are other parts of the drawing😅)
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4d
Wow. This pear looks amazing. You drew very very clear and well designed shapes of value that describe the form well.
Great work!
@airship
5d
Looking for critique.
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2d
Thanks for sharing the progress! That’s very helpful. It’s a perfect pear drawing.
@airship
5d
I accidentally attached the images in the wrong order, sorry.
@perrito
15d
I'm at L0 but really keen to improve my abilities. I'd appreciate any critique or tips that will help with that :)
Sofy
14d
This is very good. Not the critique you asked for, but the on you deserve.
@azurelyse
15d
Hi perrito! This looks awesome, I think you captured the asymmetry and character of the pear well! I also like that you used directional shading to indicate the form, and how sharp and crisp the shadows are! I noticed there's a bit of smudging on the page; I've had that same problem, especially when working with the darker pencils. Something that's helped me a lot is keeping a piece of paper in between my hand and the sketchbook paper.
I think you did a great job! :)
Nova -tto
21d
I know it's my first attempt and that I'm level 0, but when I see the other drawings I get demotivated too quickly, I completely lost my motivation hahahahaha
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14d
Looks good! Don't lose that motivation. On thing to try is to draw that value scale at the top, and then carefully and lightly map out all the shapes first. Then all ya gotta do is fill in the drawing using your value scale as a guide. Keep it up, and you'll master the exercises in no time.
Sergiu Covalcic
22d
Here is an apple I drew trying to follow what was said in the critique, I could have been more careful with my lines and proportions, but it was fun to apply the exercise to an other object.
It was fun trying to show drapery with X,Y and Z lines and to play with composition, shape design and contrast, even though I can't really call myself satisfied.
I guess the important thing is that I challenged myself and that I had fun.
Johan Wendin
24d
Love the video, this is very helpful! Just found it funny in critique #6, saying he kinda "cheated" using 6 values and then propose a solution with... 6 values. :)
Phương Phạm
24d
After watching the critique, I thought I should have tried a new object (instead of the pearl from project), so I got another drawing of tomatoes. It was hard, but I had fun :)
Amatullah Jamali
7d
love your sketch , looks fun to try !
Alan Massey
21d
The vines are so well done.
C. A. Corbell
30d
First post, first course! Made some of the same mistakes as those in the video critiques, but I feel good about this beginning.
Ricky Purnell
1mo
Hi everyone, I’m trying to get back to drawing after many many years, I’m a 3D artist looking to add drawing to my arsenal. I want to draw anatomy and characters but also realize my basics really suck. So, here I am. I did the pear. I’m not sure if I missed the point or cheated, my pencil sketch wasn’t so great and I think I lack motivation with this boring assignment, (in my eyes) but understand this is also essential to my learning so let’s do it. Did I chicken out from pencil because I failed? Or did I make a boring assignment fun and inventive? Did I miss the point. Any feedback welcome.
@johnnythreedee
29d
Dude that looks so good lol I'm jealous. Shadows on the pear look clean.
Only thing I see that might need tweaked is the shadow behind the pear. If I remember the project video correctly, we should break it down between the darker shadow directly underneath and a lighter shadow further away. I'm just learning too so... I could just be a dumb dumb and not remembering properly.
Peter Tighe
1mo
Definite improvement on the second pear from the first pear regarding the execution and use of values. Pear 2 also looks more three dimensional. You might consider the shape of the top right side of the pear for accuracy.
@manisha_g
1mo
This is my first assignment of pear, I drew it two times. I would appreciate some feedback, thanks.
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14d
Overall really good! One thing I find helps is to have more of my values on the lighter side of the scale, and a biggish jump between the light and dark. So 3 values in the light and 2 in the shadow. Also, it may help to find a few more lines around the contour of the pear. Often silhouette is one of the strongest tools us artist have. Nice work!
Tiffany Stallings
2mo
I'll likely reattempt the portrait at some point. I don't dislike it, I think it comes across as graphic and stylized, which was my intent since I didn't know how to plan a portrait without using curves, so I just pushed a little away from realism and into exaggeration.
But my values got a bit muddy and I think a sixth or seventh snuck in. I hadn't thought of starting from a thumbnail as illustrated in the demo.
And yes, the ghost of a former pear is haunting the background of my pear. I learned a little lesson in both planning and pressing too hard with my pencil on my first lay-in.
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14d
I love the graphic nature of it. It shows that you are thinking about the design which is important. To get better at drawing shapes themselves, especially in faces, is to really squint up your eyes, so you hardly see an eye as an eye, or a nose as a nose, but just blurry shapes. Too often, our analytical mind takes over and we think we know what something looks like and just draw that. But again, I love these drawings. Well done.
Matvrak
2mo
Tyrell Jennings
2mo
@ilanj
2mo
I did all three pears about a week apart. The first was the 2nd reference, the second was the 1st reference after watching the demo, and the third was the 3rd reference. It was fun. I think i got better? Idk?
@michelled
2mo
I've just started the class, and am looking forward to improving my drawing skills. Any feedback welcome on my pear assignment drawing.
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14d
Great drawing! I don't have a tone of notes, other than to resist the temptation to curve those lines (just for these exercises). And that your mid-tones might benefit from a little more variety. I find that for these types of drawings, having 3 lighter tones and two darker tones, with a big jump between them really helps punch that pear out at ya. But again, really nice drawing. Cheers!
Omar
2mo
definitely struggled but i am welcome to critiques
@idr4w
2mo
It looks pretty good to me haha I started today lol
@derrotebaron
2mo
Shown are the three main practice drawings I did labeled 1, 2, and my final drawing, number 3
@scides
3mo
Hello everyone. I did this exercise a couple of times. I tried to draw a pear before and after watching the demo. Now I attempted to draw the pear using another photo as reference. Here is the result.
@brambodobbie
3mo
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