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@afish
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1yr
added comment inProject - Learning to Sketch from Observation
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My last sketch of the three, on big paper, after watching the demos for the hand and penguin. It seems like the goal of the exercise is to just have fun and not worry too much. It was fun! I did worry less on this one; I moved faster. I did very minimal measuring. It felt good.
@robikobi
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1yr
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My attempt at spider hands and penguin before watching the demo. I'm somewhat satisfied with the hands but the penguin could be a lot better. I think it's quite off balanced and also the lines don't flow as nicely as they do with the hands or the vr girl. Any feedback is appreciated :).
Honestly the penguin looks fantastic to me. Maybe do a photo overlay to look for discrepancies? Love the way you simplified the hand in a way that still totally reads like a hand.
@afish
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1yr
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Brutal. The pinky... oof. is there some kind of foreshortening there? Curious if anyone had any tricks or guiding lines they found helpful.
I had trouble sketching lightly and going increasingly dark. My tendency is to draw darker and then erase. Maybe i need to switch pencils?
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Here my 2 other drawings for this exercise. Thank you for your critique!
Very much captured the style and motion of the originals! It looks like you gave the penguin a bit more of a pair shape, but I still love the character you ended up with.
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Here is my hand drawing. Tried the red pencil me too! It is a strategy that helps me as well stay in "sketch" mode. I am quite satisfied with the result. I sense that my linework is improving as well as my hand-eye coordination. Proportions are satisfying too I think. Let met know your thoughts. Cheers
This is amazing! One thing I'm seeing is the 1st (bent) knuckles of the ring and middle finger, which for a diagonal going NW to SE on the reference but are about horizontal on yours. By fat on the end, maybe the side of then hand by the pinky does look more plumb/round on yours and a bit more depressed on the original. Is that what you mean? That seems more to do with the wrinkle lines than the proportions?
@afish
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1yr
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Drawing in curves helped me a lot for the snail. For the camel, I found myself still end up with scratchy lines, but maybe fewer scratchy lines than would have happened if I did all straights? Great exercise!
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1yr
I would recommend trying it without the shading, so the focus is on the quality of the linework alone. I do think you're on the right track for simplification though, so something else that can help is going over your initial sketch lines with a darker line to make your line decisions more clear.
Connor Tolan-Mask
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1yr
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Pre-demo & Critique attempts. The laces on the boots were definitely a struggle. If I were to do it again, I would break them up into more curves and strokes, as well as making them lighter.
