Jake
Jake
West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Jake
I think the lack of background and the lack of dress detail doesn't help, in my opinion. The face is great but it oddly "pokes out" of nothing.
Anubhav Saini
Thank you very much
Jake
Carry on drawing as much as I can 4 - 7 days a week. But remember that it is useless if I don’t push myself to progress. To get more involved with the community. Not get ahead of myself. I’m doing the drawing basics course and I don’t want to have to re-do it!
Gannon Beck
I'm in the Drawing Basics course, and I'm finding that redoing things is sometimes unavoidable. I've done each exercise once, now I'm going back and redoing the ones where I feel the concept haven't fully sunk in. One of the things I like about the Drawing Basics class--and every class on Proko--is the lifetime access. This puts time on our side as we can revisit lessons as needed. And at least for me, its needed lol.
Jake
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Simplifying animals into shapes
Jake
Tried my best but still just beginning!
Jake
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@aubrey
1yr
I think you did a really great job with the proportions and the big shapes for the shoes and the shell. For the snail, the section that is coming down the wood looks like it's missing a section of its body just below the shell. As for The boots in the front there is an overlap, but overlaps don't go all the way around the subject. It makes it look like a separate shape. I hope this helps, keep up the good work, Happy drawing!
Jake
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Second lesson, draw some fruit. Old shading habits die hard. Was meant to keep it boxy with no smooth transitions. Hand waivered a bit.
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Jake, nice work! I think the first one is especially good, with its more accurate drawing. I'll do my best to help you further :) Keep in mind that Stan will probably touch on the things I mention further down the course, so don't stress over it 😎 - When drawing keep a vertical and a horizontal line in mind. The vertical line parallel with the vertical edge of the paper and the horizontal line parallel with the horizontal edge of the paper. Having a clear idea of what is true horizontal and what is true vertical can help with the accuracy of the drawing. In the third drawing the pear looks like it's tilting the right --> the vertical relationships has not been captured accurately. In the second value scale, the shape of the squares changes. Try to make the size of the squares consistent and edges truly horizontal and vertical. It might sound overkill, but it's good practice for capturing the more complex shapes of nature. - I would encourage you to do another value scale. The steps look pretty good (you might want to darken the mid value and the second to darkest value. The value scale leans a bit to the light side). The main thing I notice is an uneveness withing each square. In your next one, try to make the values more even. This can take some extra time, but it's a great way to build value control skills. When shading a drawing, a change in value comunicates something, such as a change in form. If the value changes in the wrong place the form might not read the way you intended it to. When doing the value scale I would recommend making the lines for the squares light, so that the edge is created by the filled in values instead (you'll get to practice edge control - in this case making a hard edge.) I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
Jake
It's been a while. I was hitting a wall and had to acknowledge my faults, so I have bought the Drawing Basics course. They cheekily give a one time discount offer on "figure drawing fundamentals" at checkout as well....so I got that haha! But anyway here's exercise number one, lines!!!
Jesper Axelsson
Nice! Is it the assignment for this lesson Project - Get Your Tools and Start Playing (I would encourage you to post your assignments under the assignments tab in the lesson), awesome! I'll take a look on you other post as well👍
Jake
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latest study. Focusing on eyes and nose at the moment, so the jaw is mostly indicative.
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Jake, cool drawing! It's great that you try challenging angles, and I think you did a pretty good job. The elliptical line wrapping as a crosscontour around the sphere (the line that the brows sit on), looks really nice! - I think you'll really benefit from, and enjoy taking the Drawing Basics course. It will give you a broad foundation that is going to help you in whatever subject you're drawing. - Try to be lighter on the hand as you draw. This video has some great tips on linework Intro to Lines . - Try to apply the same approach you use for drawing the head, when you draw the features; build the features with 3D-pieces. Do this with light lines, then render on top (Top 5 Drawing Mistakes (at 8:51-->) ) - Since you seem to enjoy working with value, I think you'll appreciate doing value studies. If you're interested, check out this video How to Organize Values (you can get it for free in the Proko Course Sampler ). I found working with 5 values difficult at first, so I started with practicing 2-value studies, then moving to 3, then 4, then 5. For the 2 value studies, I still used the same approach of finding the extremes, then judging a value against those, to discern what group it belonged to. (I attached a paintover of Proko user Tony Vu's work.) If you find it hard to control the value itself, it could be useful to do a value scale, with the drawing tool you intend to use. Draw five squares, and mark them 1 to 5. 1 is the white of the paper. 5 is as dark as you can go with the material. Start by filling in square 5. Get to know the material; apply strokes in different directions, build up the tone from light to darkest, feel where the tip of the tool is touching the paper. Make the tone as even as you can. Then do the same with square 3. The value should be inbetween the strength of 1 & 5. Then you do #2, which should be inbetween 1&3 in strength, then #4, which should be inbetween 3&5 in strength. I hope this helps :) Let me know if you have any questions!
Jake
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Don’t know about technical accuracy but I’m feeling a human connection to a lot of the eyes I have been doing
michael legassie
this is beautiful, but quick tip, if this is watercolor, try to use color pencil and blend those uneven marks.
Martha Muniz
Awesome progress! You've come a long way and I applaud the dedication. What program are you using by the way? I think switching to smoother brush may help bring out more clarity in your drawings.
Peter Anton
This is a good start! The left eye looks a bit bigger than the other. I'd avoid doing all those splotchy gray values all over the face, I'm not really sure what's going on there, but it looks like you don't have a clear separation of lights and shadow. Structure and studying the planes of the face will help with that. I think the face might be too long as well, or the eyes should be lowered
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