Project - Learning to Sketch from Observation

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Project - Learning to Sketch from Observation

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

17K

Course In Progress

Assignments 2.7K

Downloads 8

Use the three reference images of clean line drawings and sketch them using simple loose lines. Don't try to match the cleanliness of these drawings. Instead, sketch them out with energetic, tapered strokes. Don't hesitate. Just practice moving your arm with confidence. If you draw some lines and then you realize that, Oh, shoot, I need to curve that more. Go ahead and just draw the new curve right over it. As you get more confident that you've found the shape, you can darken those lines and the lighter lines start to disappear. Focus on the big idea and the shapes the lines represent, rather than on each individual line.

For you, Level 2 monster trucks, I want you to start with this Level 1 project as a warmup, and then head over to the Learning to Sketch from Imagination project page for your instructions.

If you'd like to have a chance to be included in the upcoming critique videos, you must submit your drawings below by March 9th 2023.

Good luck and please have some fun!

Mahfam Zohrabi

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22h

I’m not sure why, but I avoided drawing this one for a while. Today, though, I finally felt ready to give it a try.

Jose Anton

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22h

This was definitely the most difficult exercise for me, and the one that required the most erasing and rebuilding. Still, I'm happy to have finished it!

Steve Wright

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This one was quite tricky, I went out my envelope I think it didn't help I drew the ring first before the character. The proportions were quite tricky to get too, I think the feet are a bit smaller, I'm not sure as my observation skills are still very low as not been drawing long, I think I managed to keep my searching lines quite loose and confident, I sometimes push too hard or go over lines too many times making them darker. If anyone has any feedback or advice it would much appreciated.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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23h

This is a solid drawing for this assignment. Just keep going!

Juan Sanchez

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Here is mine!

Rachel Dawn Owens

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22h

WOW! You packed so much style into these drawings. It’s so refreshing. A+

Mahfam Zohrabi

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I tried my best to keep it loose and draw using my arm.

Steve Wright

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This one took a while over the week, I found it quite hard especially the fingers, I used the envelope method Patrick Bosworth kindly explained to me in a previous post of mine. I noticed I made the palm slightly too wide near the thumb, and the middle finger also has a bit of a wide gap between it and the index finger, and slightly odd angle of the top of the middle finger too. I tried to keep my searching lines loose and confident, which I think I managed to achieve. If anyone has any feedback or advice it would be much appreciated.

Melanie Scearce

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I agree, your line quality/strokes between both drawings look good! Nice job keeping your drawing on the page, it looks like the envelope method helped!

Monica

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Decided I'd do my own reference image twice, the second time I went over lines that I felt a little more confident in. A key theme for me with mark marking is taking the time to figure out if I'm getting angles and lengths correct and not rushing.

Melanie Scearce

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Your second drawing definitely looks more confident! Keep up the sketching :)

@naf

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Day11 1st attempts of sketching reference images-Penguin was 1st , Spider Hands was 2nd and VR girl was3rd Is my lines become looser ?

Rachel Dawn Owens

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It looks like you’re stretching your lines out more as you go. Keep it up!

@allegiant336

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Attempts of sketching reference images - VR girl was 1st, Spider Hands was 2nd & Penguin was 3rd. I think I was getting the hang of not trying to sketch perfect straight lines when sketching the penguin. Will be applying this sketching method to future sketches :)

Melanie Scearce

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I can see that your lines become looser with each drawing! Nice work, you're on the right track. Focus on pulling longer strokes and your confidence will grow.

doweey

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more ones

doweey

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These are other references, I tried to use more of the envelope, silhouette outline, and form definition. I focused more on the line quality overall, rather than exact proportions

doweey

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These are the drawings from the course's references

Melanie Scearce

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Nicely done!

@smileylemon

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This is my assigment, penguin was done first and the hand was after giving myself feedback:

Arca Ludo

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Sketch - VR girl

Arca Ludo

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Sketch - spider hand

Matthew

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A handful of sketches - I don't think I stayed as loose as I wanted, and the resulting sketches don't feel simple enough; I'm definitely someone who gets distracted by details

Arca Ludo

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Beautiful! I like your idea to sketch Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong and will do the same in the future. Especially since the main reason I'm learning to draw is to do it for video games. :-)

sean kenna

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I could have definitely had a lighter hand on these, and I'm not happy with the hand put overall, i feel, despite the mistakes, I really feel got the gist of how to plan out the sketch.

Melanie Scearce

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These are all well-placed on the page! Nice work. I think you may have needed to slow down on the hand drawing just a bit. If you notice you start to get scratchy with your lines, it may be because you are feeling unsure/unconfident. That's a good time to reassess and try to get back on top of it. Looking at it next to your VR girl and Penguin drawings, you can see the different in line quality. Your lines are a lot looser and exploratory in those other two drawings. Overall, you definitely seem like you're getting the gist!

Arca Ludo

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Sketch - Penguin

Janae

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10d

I had a lot of fun drawing all images. I made a few mistakes with the proportions of spider-hand. Still getting the hang drawing true proportions as shown.