Ana
Hobbyist (aspiring) artist with a lot to learn... have been enjoying and benefiting a lot from youtube videos, including the Proko Channel! : )
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Ana
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added comment inDrawing Caricatures - The Thumbnail Sketch
Great lesson, thank you so much!
Ana
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Hi everyone, I've been trying to do a caricature of Putin for a few months. It has not been easy to capture his likeness, as you can see from the thumbnails - I am still indecisive about which features to exaggerate, specially to emphasize his very prominent "dark-side" nature. Do you recognize Putin in any of these? I would be glad to hear your suggestions for the exaggeration.
In case it is allowed to submit more than one entry to the creative group portraits challenge, and if the deadline has not yet passed, here is my 2nd entry. This time painted with watercolor and improved digitally. Thanks for the challenge!
Hi everyone, here is my entry to the creative group portraits - it is still rough, but this is as far as I can go within the deadline. I call it Family Xmas, it was inspired by a family I saw in the park : )
My July 2022 Proko submission
Hey there! Love your idea and composition. The dad's droopy eye on the left is killing it a bit - I think you'd have a great piece if you would change that a little
I'm glad for the deadline extension! : )
Are we allowed multiple submissions?
Hi everyone, color is a challenge for me and I have been learning a lot from Marco's channel, so could not resist participating. I'm new to digital and fell into a few traps along the way, but I am really amazed by what one can do with the media - I'll definitively continue doing digital! My inchworm is still rough and the background is not what I intended, but it is already very late for me, I have to stop here. Thank you to Marco for all the great teachings and to the Proko team for this challenge! Thank you also to @Isaiah for helping me to work out the perspective.
ops, it seems I submitted a file that was too compressed. Here is the same work with higher resolution.
Asked for help
Hi everyone, I am trying to sketch a tiny inchworm happily moving towards a (distant) apple on a table. But I am having a bit of trouble framing the scene. To make the inchworm look small, I have to make the apple look big - but the inchworm is the main character. Below are some ideas so far - my favorite is #6 but because it is flat it will be more difficult to apply lighting. I will color the scene, so if I crop the apple, I think it will still read as an apple, but I am not being able to make it look like the apple is far away. Any advice?
Something that might be worth trying is putting the apple in the foreground so that way the perspective will push the size difference between the worm and the apple, and you'll be able to see the worm's happy little face.
Play around with it and mess with where you put the horizon line and see how it goes :)
Hello Ana, I think this is a really cute concept for a picture. I wanted to try my hand at helping you solve your problem with respect to the feeling of distance. I attached a quick sketch to show how I would try to solve it. I basically just remixed solutions you already explored in your own iterations.
First thing I wanted to do was to get on the inchworm's level, as you did in #3 & #4. We're used to seeing a creature like this from above. To it, we are a bit like a spy satellite with a zoom lens. But maybe we can empathize more with its struggle, if we see the world from its point of view.
I used 1-point perspective to geometrically establish distance. (Like you did in #4)
However, I also made my version more like #3, in that I cropped out the top of the apple. From the inchworm's perspective, the apple is like a mountain. So, I wanted to treat the apple like it was too big to fit into the frame, to establish a sense of scale.
I also wanted to use a little atmospheric perspective to further exaggerate the feeling of distance. This is not realistic for objects on this scale from a physics standpoint, but the effect should still read. Actually, I am not sure if I succeeded at this, but the aim was to try to make distant objects lighter in value and to reduce their contrast.
I liked your lighting scheme from #8, so I tried to mimic that.
There are probably other ways to show distance or to improve on the solutions I attempted here. Either way, I am confident you will make a lovely picture out of this scenario. I look forward to seeing the end-result!
4 and 1 are my personal favourites. I think 6 is a bit too flat and not dynamic. 4 and 1 have the worm bunched up in a different way.
