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Thien Minh Pham
My Attempt of the project! Any tips help!
Martha Muniz
Looking good! Just watch that the curvature around the edges doesn't get too flattened, especially around the goat's face. Otherwise, very good work, and superb line quality too! :)
Cal Stanback
Martha Muniz
Nice practice! I think you have a good eye for placing the cross contour lines, though there is a tendency to flatten the lines a bit. Try drawing some cross contour lines all the way around, as if the subject were transparent, to get a feeling for what the full mass would look like, especially in rounded areas like the squirrel's tail or the puppy's legs where an ellipse can really demonstrate the curvature. It's also helpful to keep an eye on the curvature of the cross contour lines by the edges, where the curve would be the steepest but risks being flattened. Hope this helps, keep up the good work!
@dollydigital
Martha Muniz
You've got it! Nice work :)
CharmLotta
Asked for help
This kind of poses drawing should probably take no more than 5 minutes per figure, I needed 20 or more... I focused on proportions and the methods of simplifying of the body parts. Maybe it's just not the time for me to speed up yet.
Martha Muniz
It's alright if you need more time, especially when starting out! There's a lot of different parts of the figure to break down, but once you get more familiarity with the subject, speed will be less of an issue. I do think you still keep fluidity throughout the poses with rhythms in mind, which is excellent. Do however watch out for the tendency to elongate and make the limbs, especially the arms, too fluid, almost into noodle arm territory. Adding structure by finding hard edges to incorporate as straight lines can help. Also, keep an eye out for the shoulder area as a transitional rhythm between the torso and arm that still holds it own mass, so it can be more fleshed out and developed in the drawings. I think this will also help with keeping the arms proportional, as the arm's starting point will be further away from the torso thus shorter. Hope this helps!
@matterweave
Super new going through all of this, but I liked the chicken so much I tried to stretch into the level 2 stuff. First pic was the first attempt for the level 1 exercise, then tried some basic tweaking all the shape language stuff with circles and triangles.
Martha Muniz
Great shape explorations! Love how different each one is from one another.
@yashimon
I tried warmups!
Martha Muniz
Nice work! :D
Anthony Huynh
I tried doing a whale, not any specific type but just focusing on the features that I really liked (like that big ol' chin/belly). Just did a bunch of sketches from different angles and trying out multiple ideas that I thought might be good, like multiple fins with different shapes, or trying to get that spikey bearded dragon look on the chin (but I didn't really like the idea, so I scrapped it). I ended up settling on a droopy looking whale with big and glorious stag horns, and some killer whale spots around the eye. Experimenting was definitely quite fun even if it didn't necessarily match-up entirely with what I thought of in the beginning.
Martha Muniz
These are really fun ideas, and you pulled from great inspirations! If you want to keep pushing it, I think a fun place to hone on would be the size relationships, especially with the massive chin/belly and horns vs everything else. Even just making other areas as tiny as possible, like the tail, fins, and head/eye area could really change how the belly is perceived. There's a lot of room for experimentation too just on the principle of size: large vs small horns, long vs short tail, big vs small eyes, and so forth. I'd love to see what you can come up with, it's definitely a fun challenge! :)
@superokay
Not sure how well I followed the brief here. I feel like they weren’t sketchy enough, lines were too bold
Martha Muniz
I think you definitely got the spirit! The idea of sketchy linework is to not be tied down into the smallest detail, but instead approach each line with confidence, intention, but also the ability to redo it if necessary. I think you definitely show those qualities, though if you would like a cleaner drawing, a tip would be to first start with very light lines and only place in a final, darker line once you figured out exactly where you want your lines to be.
@alanel
The boots were really hard! I had to watch the demo just to get anything that looked vaguely boot-like.
Martha Muniz
You did really well! Everything is very clear and simple without losing the description of the subject matter.
Traci Williams
Very hard but I figure if it's ugly now it will be better later! Great exercise! I will do it again!
Martha Muniz
Great progress! Try giving each ellipse a couple more rounds -- that will really push your arm to get loose in no time.
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