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Philippe
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3d
added comment inDemo - Simplify Snail and Boots to CSI
Too scared to do the laces.
@deepti04
6h
i was scared too, but then i jumped into it at the count of 3. please don't worry . Hope you' ll give it a try :)
@deepti04
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6h
hello ! it took me longer than expected to get back . and as for the boots , i don't know but somehow i went with the straight lines more , though i now realize that it makes the the drawing more kind of rigid and complex. i'll work on that ..... critiques much awaited. Thank you!
And fellow students, i really hope we all get better and get where we want to be. Good Luck ! everyone :)
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4h
These are great. I love the enthusiasm
@deepti04
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1mo
Asked for help
resubmitting level 1 and submitting level 2
level 1 was comparatively a bit easier to do, level 2 turned out to be a little better on 6th attempt but I am going to still try on more references. My brain can see more mistakes than my hands can correct, but I'd be still glad to have critiques and suggestions.
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1mo
Superb work. That is a great place to be in your journey, because your craftsmanship will catch up fast with that knowledge on how you can improve. Keep up the momentum!
I don't have too much to add, but be mindful of focal point when working on portraits. The face will generally have the most detail and highest contrast, and by organizing the values by light and dark and keeping other parts of the image as simple as possible, we can really enforce this. These are general rules I would use if I attempted this project. Simplifying the shapes and decreasing the contrast between values the areas in shadow around the neck will keep it from competing for attention with the face.
Eric Simon
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2yr
Asked for help
Day 1 of the course, and just started drawing about a month ago. I'm having a difficult time locating the chin in space. It makes sense how to divide the face into thirds vertically, but creating the frontal plane of the face - from brow to chin - is giving me a hard time. My chins always seems to distort the plane. Is there a methodological/geometric approach to this, or is it just trial and error?
Hello, I just wanted to chime in here.
I think there's two approaches here: short term and long term.
Long term would be to fully understand forms (such as a box, cylinder, and ball), understand perspective (how parallel lines converge, constructing believable forms from imagination) and then to apply these to complex forms such as the simplified head shape. This, of course, is much better for your artistic health, but like all healthy things, hard endure with out a little bit of sugar :).
Short term (and the one I did) would be to draw the simplified head until you know when the lines look wrong, and use this knowledge correct yourself. You'll start to pick up on perspective and all of that, but your foundation will be shaky. You'd have to repeat this concept with all new objects you learn to draw, and probably waste more time this way. However, this method is much more fun, and kept me motivated where as vanishing points and horizon lines would've made me loose interest.
At least that's how I see it. I think motivation is the most important thing, and so that's what I prioritize. You can't draw if you don't feel like it. But let me know what you think.
- Dwight
