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Brad Clement
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1yr
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I’m having trouble finding the brush pack that “comes with this class” - see 2:55 in video. Thanks in advance.
Andrea Böhm
1yr
@Proko Support Where can we download the brush pack Marco is speaking of?
Brad Clement
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2yr
Asked for help
Attempt at learning from David Malan’s drawing “Natalie”. It quickly became clear that I could not maintain any semblance of the expression he captured in the hair by trying to meticulously copy every pencil stroke. So I tried to keep the “spirit” of his approach -even if much less skillfully.
Brad Clement
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2yr
Stan, would you please elaborate on what you mean by rhythm? I’ve heard/read several artists refer to rhythm in very different ways. In this video I take your comments to mean that finding a rhythm is finding a line that shows a gesture, but that this line becomes lost and found - so the eye follows the gesture but has to do a little work to connect its parts, thereby making the drawing more engaging for the viewer’s mind? Am I close?
Brad Clement
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2yr
Asked for help
Here are my level one attempts. I’ll go back and try these again after watching Stan’’s demo - I know I failed at the loose sketching approach - but I tried. For the VR girl I included the first gesture sketch that I did - I defined the drawing’s envelop, found the midpoints of the figure (vertical and horizontal, but then didn’t do any more measuring - I just tried to find the right shapes to fit on the gesture.
Well done. Your process is excellent. I see most confident lines in the penguin. Perhaps some hesitation underneath the confident, darkened lines, or you've used an eraser, in both spider hand and the girl. More excercises like this and the confidence will be there with one stroke, I believe (and hope, what comes to my own drawing 🤭). In any case these look very good.
Yes, I think you've lost a bit the proportions of the VR girl. However, the stroke seems a little hesitant to me, not confident. Much better penguin and spider hand. But that's just a beginner's opinion
Brad Clement
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2yr
Spent a couple of hours sketching in a coffee shop with the Asheville Plein Aire painting group (in the winter we move indoors). Worked on line quality (still got a long way to go) and saying more with less….
Brad Clement
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2yr
One of my own hiking boots. Perspective of the toe seems a bit wonky, but to be fair, I have pretty small feet.
Hey Brad, your boot looks pretty good. The reason it looks off has to do with the centerline of the toe. This is something I'm sure Stan will cover soon, but the centerline helps us determine were our object is facing. I did a quick diagram to show you what I mean, but know that you were not that far off. Keep it up :)
But, looking at Stan’s demo of the boots, his are quite lovely, I think because of the confident “S” curves - he admits some things are off and says that’s “OK”. Perhaps see where you could emphasize curves?
Brad Clement
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2yr
Asked for help
For those of us struggling with the boot laces, maybe this internet dad joke will provide some levity: I bought some boots from a drug dealer. I don’t know what he laced them with, but I was trippin all day.
Simon White
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2yr
Asked for help
The shot of the camel was more of a complex structure so I found myself firstly roughing in the big shapes and gesture lines for the legs etc. The head itself, I decided to try and draw a box to help me figure out how to break the shape down, noticing the planes of the head that I could see, a bit of the front plane, the side plane and the under plane. This turned out to be really helpful in helping me to place the features.
Interesting that you used boxes. I used two circles -one for the skull area and one for the nose/mouth volume. Either way, I guess it helps visualized the volumes of those features. Nice job.
Brad Clement
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2yr
trying hard to simplify with CSI, but some part of brain always seems to take over and start squiggling,
