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David Stocco
David Stocco
Mendoza, Argentina
Figure and portrait artist
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David Stocco
how you notice his eyes are off? I didn´t notice the difference
David Stocco
the Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencil, which is easily recognizable by it’s bright blue casing. These pencils range from very soft (9B) to very hard (9H). The company add a special component to the graphite that avoid the shinines in the B values. They dont want to say what is this special componnent.
David Stocco
Im sorry I just catch up the livestream. Is this video going to be uploaded somewhere?
Sean Ramsey
Yep, it'll be on Youtube!
Jason Winter
Here is my attempt. I'm okay about it. Comments welcome.
David Stocco
very good drawing. Maybe the eyes are a little bigger than in the original photo? what do you think?
farukh rafiq
I think I am late for the assignment. Can I get a critique?
David Stocco
nice job on the proportions. The only thing I could advise you is to take your drawing a little further and round out the shapes to give the curves a softer tone. This way the face will look more feminine and more alive. The other thing you can do is render the cheek a little bit more to give it a slight gradient and it dosent look too strong. If you squint the eyes the cheekbone is very marked in your drawing. And by having so much contrast in this area, it steals the spotlight to the most important features of the face: the eyes, the nose and the lips. but very well you have a good solid base on which to keep working on.
Kennedi Mallory
I really enjoyed this livestream - and I'm so excited for what Proko has to offer! Any critique is much appreciated!
David Stocco
Nice style!
Dana Obera
My 2nd attempt, around 7 hours - watercolor. I intended the neck to be darker, but it made the head pops too much. I used cool light under the jaw with gouache but it's too much. I still can't copy/color pick from the photo into my color palette yet. Any tips on how to copy the color from reference into the palette?
David Stocco
Very good! Watercolors are quite a complicated world. But if you do it well, it looks much better than an oil painting because we are made of water. Great job
Nyx
I really enjoyed this approach! This is my first time here on Proko, so I'm very excited. Any critique would be greatly appreciated!
David Stocco
I agree with the other comments. Very good control of face values. This was quite a tricky pose but you were able to solve it quite well.
@karolinaruddin
David Stocco
the proportions of the face very well. Perhaps you can lower the tones a bit so that you do not have so many contrasts in the face and the shadows are not so strong. On female faces the word subtlety is the key. The rendering has to be very smooth because if we go overboard we can over-mark the lines of the face. But your drawing is still very good. keep on!
Mark Manthorpe
Second attempt this evening giving myself the same amount of time as the livestream (around three hours) started at 3AM BST, did what I could until 6AM. Tried doing the best I could, not confident with the features but I am curious to know what others think. 🙂
David Stocco
good job there! well focused on the proportions and the quality of the lines. I would suggest to push the drawing a little bit further. Rounding the shapes to make it look more organic. But if this was just for practice its good too. I finished a lot of my drawings at shadows blocking stage.
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