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Grant
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18d
added comment inWarmup - Mushrooms
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Just found a comfortable sensitivity for my stylus on Procreate so I figured I’d try this warmup digitally. It was a very humbling experience.
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13d
It's definitely a fun warm-up but also agree with it being rather humbling as you get into it 😅 Digital can provide a bit of added difficulty, but it also serves to figure out and calibrate yourself to the program's setting, which I think makes it all the more worthwhile. Keep at it! I also suggest adding some more revolutions to each ellipse, to get more momentum and fluidity as you loosen up with each attempt.
Grant
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20d
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First Proko Project (wohoo!) Getting the values to look good was more challenging than I thought since it’s been a while but I think it turned out ok. My value scale was 2H,HB, 2B, and 4B.
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13d
Wow! So smooth and controlled, super impressive!
@selmo
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16d
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So decided to spend a week on this and make attempts daily before moving on here are both before watching the demo.
I completely neglected the shadow on the pear and found the face to be significantly challenging.
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13d
Great dedication and progress! I think your hard work definitely shows in your results, especially as you attempt more challenging subjects to draw from.
I think something that can help you is focusing on the separation of light vs dark. Really any image can be simplified all the way down to just white vs black, where we see the areas hit by light separated from the areas in shadow. This is the most important distinction to still keep in our minds even as we progress to adding more values and more complexity to our image. Once you add more values, like 5 for example, those 5 values will still fit in either the light or dark category (usually, like in these pear and portrait references, the 3 lightest values are in the light section and the 2 darkest are in the shadow section). When you approach your image, look for the separation of light vs shadow to help guide you as you place your values, making sure it's clear that your designated light values are only on the side of the light, and the same for the dark values on the side of shadow.
You're already on the right track with great shape simplification and rendering control, so I think just controlling your lights vs darks will really make it pop. Let me know if you have any questions!
@amcgavisk
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15d
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Pear… both before and after watching demo. Then gave the portrait try.
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13d
Awesome! I see a huge improvement from your first to second attempt, especially in value control and shape simplification. A small detail to note in the portrait is that sometimes knowing the literal color/value of an object we're familiar with (like the knowing the eye sclera is white) can lead us to portray it that way in our art even when it's different in reality, like the eye sclera actually being a light grey due to the shadow. One trick I like to use is to squint at (or blur) the image, to assess the general abstract masses of value/shape without being distracted by more complex details/ideas. It's a good habit to carry forward as it also helps with assessing pictures from a larger overview perspective. Hope this helps, keep up the good work :)
@eyeeatlight
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21d
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Struggled a bit to keep the values consistent and the shading not too messy!
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13d
Lovely work! Great job with such consistent values!
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13d
Hi! Nice work, definitely has a volumetric feel to it already. Try starting even lighter with your light greys so there's more of an even shift from step to step as the values get darker, rather than starting darker from the jump and not having as much difference left in between the greys. It helps to lessen the pressure with your pencil and also to use more of the side of the pencil, taking advantage of that softness rather than the harshness of the sharp tip. Hope this helps, keep up the good work! :)
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27d
Looks good! Very clear choices for Light & Shadow!
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27d
Lovely work! I think for future attempts you can still go a little simpler with the shapes you select, like using an example here, the cat could have a simple ellipse for the major head shape and the dog more triangle ears. This is mostly to help with breaking it down to a basic essence where you can later then use those basic shapes to stylize and experiment and have some room to play with -- like squashing and stretching the ellipse or replacing it with a totally different shape like a square instead. Your stuff is already looking pretty good, just keep exploring! :)
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27d
Love the size variation!
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27d
Looks pretty good! Keep doing more loops for each ellipse to really get the fluidity and looseness into practice. You got this!
