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Jerry
I don't see why you'd want to toss any drawings. They're a record of where you've been and where you're going and they can give you valuable insight into what you do well and can expand upon and what you need work on. One day it might be nice to look at them and get some perspective on how far you've come. I keep my basic warmup line and circle exercises in a separate sketchbook and I don't mind tossing in those although even then it might be nice to see how much you've improve at those over time. If you're working digitally you have the benefit of not needed to worry about sketchbooks taking up physical space even if the trouble of choosing how to organize comes into play.
@eshields
1yr
I like this mindset, thank you for sharing
@eshields
As I navigate the courses I'm taking and going through exercises and reinforcement practices, I'm struggling with what to keep and what to toss and what would be great to go in a sketch book. Is there value in keeping those early drawings and exercises, including the not-so-good ones? Or do you keep what you like/love and call the rest just practice?
@eshields
I struggled with the shading but it’ll get better With practice. This is my 3rd study and it came out the best. I tend to over elongate the eye so I drew more guide lines to help with proportions. Feedback appreciated especially on proportions!
@canthebean
Hi esheilds. Your bottom eye looks accurate and pretty. I like that you added the shading under her brow. If I were to point anything out, I would go back to the lesson and pay attention when Stan talks about almond eyes. Your eye is very symmetric on the horizontal axis, I believe the shape would be more interesting if the bottom apex was more to the left. Especially since your reference has a really cute droopyness to her eye. This might be causing the eye to feel long? Either way the added structure will help you with preportion. Preportions that you might have gotten a bit blind to- you misjudged the proportion and shape of her eyebrow which makes the eye larger. Her top lid is showing more, which makes her expression calmer in the ref. The waterline- I dont know if this is a preportion issue or a drawing issue. It seems very thin. Its also completely white which makes it pop out too much. I like that you are adding it, but on a person, especially at this angle, It's a lot more subtle. A heavy black outline to show it is a bit severe. Or maybe its that the consistent shape you drew flattens it out, which kills the forshortening. Honestly, I don't know. It just feels like the skin of her lids is like a membrane, so if anyone else has any ideas. You are heading in a good direction I hope that maybe my feedback can help you out. (also a nitpick - this lady has a slight epicanthal fold that crosses over her inner eye - your drawing ends the fold prematurely. It makes sense that you missed this since many people don't practice anatomy on this eye style.)
@eshields
I was a little nervous taking this study on, but I like how it came out! I need work on perspective for the back half of the avocado, but I’m happy with how this came out. Feedback welcomed.
@eshields
Here’s my pear. This is my second attempt.
@wickedtuna
This model really helps understanding the head in different views. Here's my attempt.
@eshields
2yr
Great Idea! I'm going to make one and add it to my notes, as well!
@eshields
Omg this is so helpful when I can't quite grasp the curve around the front plane when practicing my heads.
Nicolas Malloy
Egg practice Though I am drawing digitally, I work hard to restrict my options so that I don't hurt my learning progression. I disabled my undo shortcut, use a simple brush tool (pencil), and I try not to change the zoom level while drawing. I am not sure if these limitations are enough to overcome the benefits of using pencil and paper to improve drawing skills. I hope so. I suppose I can compare an egg drawing I do on paper with this digital drawing, though I am not sure that is a valid skill test. Any thoughts?
@eshields
2yr
That's a great idea. I'm doing mine digitally, as well as I can't grapple with so much wasted paper while I work through my chicken scratch! :D
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