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Chris Bodary
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3yr
added comment inDrawing ‘Morgan’
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Getting better. More to do.
Grant H
3yr
Only three weeks ago you posted this drawing, asking about the hair. This new portrait has so much improvement on everything, including the hair, it's crazy to think the time difference was less than a month. Very nice, keep going. I look forward to see what's to come.
@mikeyschwarzenagger
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3yr
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hello i would like some critic, the only part i fell like i didt did it that it look like the image is the hand mayby with the stick,
Hello,
The most important critique I can give is that you'll need to draw larger/cleaner and take a much clearer picture of what you drew. It's really hard to give other meaningful critiques when it's so difficult to see your drawing clearly.
Grant H
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3yr
Asked for help
Hello. Here are a few Loomis heads and the start of a self portrait. I plan to take the portrait as far as I can before doing the portrait drawing course, then redo it afterwards to see the difference.
I feel like in my drawing I'm coming out older looking. But maybe that's common during the early stages?
All critiques welcome. Thanks.
Great idea. Excited to see the progress when it’s all done! I think the age thing is just cause the structure lines are there. The more lines on the face and less subtlety all translate to aging
Grant H
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3yr
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Hello. This was by far the hardest assignment of this course. Here are my first two attempts; more to come. All critiques are very welcome on this assignment. I have difficulty deciding what I want to get very basic with the forms on versus where to let the contour take over. I imagine the more basic/structural, the more I'll be able to recall the forms from imagination later on. Any thoughts on this? Any tips on how to do these mannequinizations faster? These took a lot longer than I thought.
I also have a specific question. On the third image I attached, which cross contours are correct for her leg, assuming it's just one simple cylinder? Initially I thought the first (dark blue) would be, since her leg is slightly coming towards us. But at one point in the drawing the purple ones seemed right too. Then straight lines (green) seemed right because I thought her leg isn't really coming towards us/the camera, but is just tilted. Obviously only one of the three can be right. I'm leaning towards the straight (green) ones, but I'm not sure. Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Chris Bodary
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3yr
Asked for help
Try to think of the hair as a simple 3D form of its own that just drapes on top of the shape of the head. Because the head is like a sphere at the top, the hair form follows that sphere. Because the head is flat on the sides, the hair falls straight down.
Here's an example for you. You can think about her hair as an archway/cave/hollow mailbox that sits on top of her head. That's what her hair is, except the cave/mailbox shape isn't just a half cylinder. From the side, it angles down, which you show in your drawing too.
I think the biggest thing for you to improve would be to use cleaner lines and focus on the simple forms. Your shading isn't 'wrong' for the hair that you drew, all the highlights and shadows are in the right place. It's just that the hair you drew isn't well defined and doesn't have much 3D form of its own. Sharp, clean lines will improve your drawing a lot. Hope that helps.
Grant H
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3yr
Just a few animal quick sketches as a break from drawing robo beans and mannequins. I will say, the gesture assignments have really helped me when drawing animals as well.
Grant H
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3yr
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My third robo bean assignment; this one is for twist. All critiques welcome. I'm pretty happy with these so far, I feel like I'm finally getting the robo bean.
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3yr
These look amazing Grant!
Grant H
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3yr
My attempts at the tilting robo beans. I'm pretty happy with them. They came out a lot better once I started drawing the regular bean in lightly first, then adding the boxes on top of that. All critiques welcome.
Grant H
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3yr
Hello, here's my first go at the robo beans. I plan to go back in a little more depth and check them against Stan's to see where I'm off. So far, when I look at his compared to mine, I think mine are coming out a little too stiff. All feedback is welcome.
I do have one specific question though. On the second image I attached, his drawings have a concave curve for the belly on one bean, but a convex curve for the other. These poses seem very similar. When I drew them, I made the curve concave for both. Is there a particular reason one would be convex or concave, other than it appears that way on the photo reference? Or maybe it's due to body type? Just trying to figure out if I were to make robo beans from imagination, how I would know when it's concave vs convex. Thanks.
Hello, Grant! There are probably a dozen different reasons why you would use concave vs. convex lines, anything from body type to artistic license, but I think in this example, we're dealing with the spirit of the pose or the gesture. On the female model, we can see she's pushing her chest up, while the male model is throwing his chest back, so concave and convex lines help distinguish this difference in the poses.
Tony Vu
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3yr
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Here's my first attempt at the spine Assignment. I intend to now go watch Stan's examples. I feel that my positioning is quite off, and that I don't exaggerate the spine enough. Feedback is always apreciated!
Hey Tony,
I haven't gotten to this assignment myself yet so maybe I would have better feedback at that point. However, one thing I'm seeing is that you clearly define the front plane of the ribcage, but not really the back. In a few of Stan's examples I just glanced over, he didn't draw the back plane either. However, he doesn't draw it because he knows the perspective by heart and just skips putting it in. In your case, I think you're unsure about where that back plane actually is.
For you, I would try to "draw through" and sketch in the back plane of the ribcage, even when looking at it from the front view. Once you have the back plane, you can give it a centerline and you'll know that the spine has to follow that. At the moment, it seems like your spines are just floating somewhere inside the ribcages, rather than being anchored to the rib cage's back plane centerline.
I made this simplified egg example for you that hopefully makes sense. The leftmost form is just an egg. The middle is an egg with a little of the back carved off. You can see the green centerline follows the form. That centerline is what you would attach the edge of the spine to. The third form is just with the spine added. Hope that helps. Maybe I can help more after I do that assignment.
