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Connor Tolan-Mask
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Takehiko Inoue Master Study
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I think I rushed a bit on the hair. I was too nervous with trying to make the curves feel natural and flow-like, and it came out a bit janky in some areas.
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My attempts for this project pre-demo and pre-critique.
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All of these exercises are new to me, and they will now be something I use forever. Thanks Stan!
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I believe I did good with not paying too much attention to the contours. However, I believe that I started forgetting about using the tapered stroke in the beginning of the drawings, and it caused some of the line's to look shaky and anxious.
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Pre-demo & Critique attempts. The laces on the boots were definitely a struggle. If I were to do it again, I would break them up into more curves and strokes, as well as making them lighter.
Ralph
11mo
I believe the main focus of the exercise was doing exactly that. Also using CSI lines and doing them in one motion. From what I see in your line quality for the boots, you seem to join a lot of very small strokes together which is exactly what the exercise is meant to teach you to avoid. Don't try to copy every detail exactly how you see it. Nobody will be able to tell if the laces of the shoes were a few millimeters further to the left or the right. People will be able to tell if you used clean confident strokes or insecure short strokes. In my experience these short strokes are the result of two things 1. Insecurity where the line should go so we do a lot of short strokes and correct the direction with every stroke 2. Being afraid of making mistakes. If drawabox was good for one thing for me, then it was helping me with getting rid of those habits to a degree. Essentially the exercises there, while often tedious, teach you to not value every practice drawing you make as if it was something you wanted to put on display. They essentially make you draw things so often (e.g. 250 boxes in perspective) that at some point you stop caring about how one individual box turns out. Ironically your lines look better once you stop caring that much, because you stop overthinking it and don't worry about every little stroke anymore. Later lessons in this course will also focus on how to measure and construct things, going from big shapes to smaller ones. That may help with the "avoid errors" mentality as well because you will learn how to build a lightly drawn rough orientation construct for where to place your lines before you actually put down your final darker lines. It removes some of the uncertainty. In the end my recommendation would be to just draw a lot while trying to focus on doing confident long CSI lines. If you sit down and do a lot of animal drawings or a few every day, eventually you will stop worrying about placing every line perfectly and use longer strokes without thinking about it (maybe even to just save time, given that this approach is a lot faster than doing all these small strokes) hope there is something in there that helps you a little.
@afish
11mo
Laces look great!!
Connor Tolan-Mask
Really liked using the red 2.0mm Staedtler lead point.
Connor Tolan-Mask
2nd Picture is my first attempt without watching the demo or the critique. The remaining are my 2nd attempt progress photos, after watching the demo and the critique. The halftones were definitely my achilles heel.
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