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Lee
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Hello again, artists. After watching Mr. Stan's video and taking in some helpful critiques, I re-attempted the pears with newfound knowledge. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about them. I think it's because me personally, I don't see too big of a difference between my two attempts. I have a hard time with getting carried away and overcomplicating the different values. I'm trying to not be too hard on myself, especially at the beginning of the course and there's going to be plenty of improvement later on! Just got to keep applying what I've learned and practice. I did find the demo and advice extremely helpful, and while putting it all into practice can be a challenge I've been having a lot of fun! ♡
Monica
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I reattempted the pears after watching the demo. I tried really hard to keep the shapes simple (I always get suckered into the details). I think I eventually got there with pear-3 (the one with no background) but maybe to simplified now.
@maetran09
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I simplified from a different pear in the downloads. Struggled a bit with the plane changes in the middle of the pear - where its hard to determine light/dark 😁
I think your simplified pear looks great! I agree with you about determining the lights and darks, I struggle with that too.
Lee
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Hey, everyone! This is my first official post to the discussion board and I am very excited to be here :D I just completed the first project with the pears and had a lot of fun with this attempt. It was also quite humbling. First of all, I have a little bit of trouble sometimes determining where to start with the shading exactly, as in should I begin with the darks to establish them or focus on the lights first and build it up. As I continue on, I aim to get more comfortable with decisions like that. Another thing is that I used quite a thin mechanical pencil, as it was the first thing I grabbed and had on hand so I think that it affected my shading quality a smidge. Other than that, I'm pretty impressed with my first attempt at these little goobers. Any and all critiques are appreciated as I am trying to improve my art! Also, does anyone have advice about avoiding smudges from the pencil in your sketchbook?
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I made this tutorial to show how I would approach this exercise -- I like to start with the darks first. I find it easier to add in the lighter values with the two darkest values as an anchor. You can lightly map out the value shapes before you start shading and go from there.
In terms of the smudging, if you're working with multiple drawings on the same page, you could use another sheet of paper to rest your hand on to make sure that your palm isn't smudging any of the graphite.
Happy to hear that you had fun with this exercise! Remember to keep it simple and be very conscious about how you design your value shapes.
Kawaki Jr
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Pretty new to shading and values I wasn’t to happy with my first attempt so tried again with the second pear, I feel like it came out a lot better but critique a comments are welcomed. 😅
These pears are great! Especially with your second attempt, I think you got it down more confidently and I also really like the shape
