The guy from BluishDot
Romania
I’m just some guy with a passion for studying nature.
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The guy from BluishDot
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15d
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Here's my attempt before the demos.
I took Proko's instructions to heart and really tried to think about what I was designing and not just go trough the motions. Because of that I ended up erasing more than usual which is why some lines ended up looking really messy (I guess I have to slow down a bit and think more before "solidifying" a line).
Even though I think most designs turned out pretty bad, with a couple of them I am quite happy.
Critique is highly appreciated.
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15d
These look great! Looks like you had fun with these!
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Here is my submission. Critique is much appreciated.
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29d
Very nice work! Fun poses, great sense of depth and form!
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Here are a few attempts at the various difficulty levels.
I also noticed that I was having the most trouble with capturing the gesture of the seal “standing” straight up by the pool. I attempted drawing it twice but wasn’t happy with either result. I’ll make sure to go back and practice capturing the gesture of these kind of poses.
Critique is highly appreciated.
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2mo
These are so much fun! I love the crab especially! But they are all great.
Maybe you can try practicing with flour sacs before drawing more seals. It’s something that animators practice with to understand gesture. I think it could help you too.
Keep it up! Your cross contours are looking awesome!
The guy from BluishDot
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3mo
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Some attempts at level 1 and 2 before watching the demos. Any critique is appreciated.
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3mo
Lookin good!
Gustavo Melgarejo
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4mo
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I am trying to resume the course after a long break..... Any recommendation or critique will be welcome.
Hello and welcome back!
I think your drawing turned out quite nice!
The only thing I would suggest (and I think this was mentioned in the demo as well) is to keep the outline of your “value shapes” the same as the actual value of that area.
Also regarding your new attempt at the course, my advice would be to not get discouraged by how much lies ahead. And don’t try to rush it, thinking that you have to somehow catch up. Just focus on your current lesson, work at your own pace, and do the best you can.
I hope this helps!
The guy from BluishDot
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4mo
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Here are a couple of attempts at level 1 and level 2.
Some notes for myself:
- draw bigger so I can engage my whole arm as much as possible and not be forced to construct tiny ellipses (also helps keep things clean);
- focus on the accurate construction of the boxes in perspective (otherwise even correctly constructed ellipses will look out of place);
- stop rushing.
Any additional critique is highly appreciated. Thank you!
The guy from BluishDot
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4mo
Thanks for the demo!
Seeing Stan do these is always a good reminder of how much more I need to practice. :D With that in mind, here's a new hand with another attempt at level 2.
The guy from BluishDot
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4mo
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Here are a couple of attempts at level 2. This was really tough and it showed me that a lot more practice is needed in this area.
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4mo
These are great! I like how much you varied the lineweights.
The guy from BluishDot
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4mo
Hi there! Thanks for the demo! It’s really informative and cleared up a lot of the questions I had after my first attempt at the exercise.
I am, however, a bit confused about a couple of boxes from hands 2 and 3. I marked them in the attached images.
I understand that the way it’s drawn is not necessarily wrong since we could have more of a trapezoid box that would look like that in perspective. However, I thought that in this case we should draw boxes that had only 90 degree angles.
With that in mind, even though it would look a bit strange when compared to the reference images, shouldn’t the marked lines from those boxes converge the other way? Even if only slightly?
I’m asking because this is what caused me the most trouble and frustration in my initial attempt. Seeing that the form of the finger “converges” towards the viewer but having to draw a box that has to converge in the opposite way.
Generally your intuition is correct. Stan didn't nail the perspective in those two fingers. In the set of lines on hand three, that segment should all converge "above" the horizon-line for that box, not below. Notice, I said generally above, because, in the hand two example, these are three separate segments. Each is a box with its own vanishing points and horizon-lines. So each box can converge separately but as long as each box for each segment is foreshortened in the same way, they will converge in that direction. But again, they don't have to: look at the index finger in hand three. We see the bottom of the first segment (longest), but we see the top of the second segment.
The take-aways when you notice things like this:
1. Ask questions like you did. Self-doubt needs answering. See 2.
2. Don't doubt yourself just because you're not the expert. Experts make errors like this when they are demonstrating because there are many things to coordinate, and that's when the little things like this sneak in because of the next one.
3. Per 2, The Brain and your eyes lie to your hand, and then your hand and your eyes lie to your brain. Other times, it/s the hand and the brain gaslighting your hand to draw obviously wrong lines. It's really quite a situation. Anyway, this even happens to experts, who have trained for this. In fact, it's the main problem of making anything: getting these guys to agree long enough to make a meaningful mark that is accurate.
The guy from BluishDot
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5mo
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This was quite the shock, jumping from Steve to this. Here's my attempt at level 1, I gave it my best shot.
