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Jake
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Priportions study first attempt at the musketeer. Warmup sketches beforehand.
Jake
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Accidentally went away from using basic shapes and went on to just blocking them out
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These are still nice simplifications. No detail.
Using basic shapes will help when you try to draw more from memory.
I particularly appreciate how you simplified the rhino head. You went for a more dynamic shape rather than a stagnant one.
Jake
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Doing the simplifying animals to shapes challenge whilst still trying to remember how to do lines
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Nice work keeping things simple.
Jake
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1mo
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This might be the third time I've done this but I'm enjoying it and seeing the difference between the different methods. It's not a lot for a "days" study but I have other commitments.
Jake
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1mo
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Just a repeat of my last study but with a different object. My glasses case.
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I'm having trouble using those standing pencil sharpeners that have a handle on the backI cannot seem to make them work. I am talking about these kinds of things:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OPQZ2A8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
This is the second one I have had and have similar problems. I need one for adjustable diameter pencils as some of mine, especialy charcoal ones, are too thick for normal sharpeners.
So I use it by just sticking the pencil in and turning the handle on the back. The first one I had had adjustable settings for thin and thick, I tried both. I hold the pencil so it doesn't rotate as I turn the handle. The result always seems to be the tip of the pencil gets cut off and the "base" of the tip gets sharpend. So the pencil ends up with a broad flat head.
Can anybody tell what I am doing wrong?
Does anybody know of any good sharpeners that take pencils of any size that work?
Please and thank you of course :)
Jake
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1mo
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I'm at the "drawing with line weight" part of the Drawing Basics course. I've chosen a small model of a pokemon to draw as it has complicated and simple bits. Though I have oversimplified the model to just focus on the objectives of the lesson.
The first drawing shows hierarchy, the most interesting bits having the heavier lines.
The second drawing is unity and seperation, uniting the pokemon/creature with one line weight and the base/pedestal with a lesser line weight
The last one shows closeness, the subject is leaning forwards so the head neck and body have the darkest lines and with the withdrawn wings being the lightest.
They are oversimplified but laying them all out like this does illustrate to me at least the difference line weight can make when used in different ways.
Jake
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1mo
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Doing things with line weight here for the first time...or first time in a while
Jake
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1mo
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Did some "Skating around the page" and other warmup before some still life studies.
