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Ken 3D
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9mo
added comment inLandmarks of the Human Body
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Here's my attempt. Any feedback is welcome.
James Hicks
8mo
Did you trace over the photos? not seeing the landmarks in the "system" being described. I enjoy some of the choices you made, these are very fun to look at!
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week 15: second unit of the second term. officially i should be working on drawabox lessons 4-7, but i haven't done lesson 3 yet, so i'll be working on that first. I'm also working on the 250 cilinder challenge. For this week i did the arrows, leaves and branches exercises. I also drew the first 65 cilinders, and dit a bit of a longer portrait drawing for fun in my new strathmore toned sketchbook. I've found the cilinder challenge very challenging, not sure how to check if i'm doiing it right. Anybody got any tips for that?
try drawing a roman pillar i guess. simplify to a cylinder where you can see the arch contour line when it is above the horizon line, a straight line at the horizon, and a smile below the horizon.
then, apply it like you did here but its an arch when above or moving away and a smile when below or moving toward (foreshortening 101 i guess)
@maziurek
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3yr
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Hello! I try draw spine. What do you think about it? Please write me what I did wrong. In the first exercise, I drew red on the skeleton picture and then I moved them to see if my freehand drawing was correct. I marked the first and second attempts with numbers(its black drawings). Second exercise was really hard for me and I dont know if I make it right. Regards!
hi! question for you or anyone on the premium course.... where are you getting the photo as reference? i can't seem to remember where those spine photos would be located.... maybe im blind lol
Heather Houston
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2yr
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Here are some very rough figure drawings 😕 they each took me an embarrassing 2 minutes to do. I'm in a huge taste gap at the moment. Existential crisis over. Time to put in the actual work. I've been drawing more complicated subjects and the like 🤷♀️ What do I expect 🤦♀️ It's gonna look wonky at first. Open to some tips even though there’s not much to work with yet.
Look underneath what you see to guide the gesture. Consider the skeleton, the muscles, the fat. But under and guiding those visiblr things is the energy of the gesture. Advice would be use the same image and draw it four times across the page. Each one will have its own unique good part, and you can take those pieces into a fifth drawing and i think you'll be pleased with #5. You seem to only need repetition; ice been where you are. Keep going!
![onigi *pronunce [on-ie-gee]*](https://static.proko.com/assets/images/avatars/dr-i-cube-40@2x.webp)
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It was really difficult to make this assignment. Most of the time I've been doing the Gesture and the Mannequinization exercise for the last three months but I should practice this training more to use basic structures efficiently!
these look good! something i have found helps my own attempt at 3D-ing from a photo is to let the picture be how it is, and letting my drawing be different. kind of like your giraffe, it is more upright than the reference; lean into that more and your drawing may have more.... energy/motion/personality! That is a cute frog though!
charcoal on paper; it needs to be in oil next. HUGE fan of Slew especially in revealing the process to the complete. i feel this one may have gone too dark, but i'm pleased with the end result. Picture 3 is the final. Awesome job everyone! great to see your face :D
James Hicks
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3yr
look at the negative shapes (not the person, but the space between) for easy self critique. The space between the right arm and the ribcage, or that lovely interrupted triangle between both legs with a heel in the center. Use plumb lines, vertically the breast is barely forward of the knee. i know they seem too simple, but the bean and "gesture" will give you indications of where the form should sit. using dailysketchreference, set the timer to 1-2 minutes, and get 10-20 simple line drawings in. and THEN attempt something as bold as this (: keep going!
squeen
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4yr
Here's an attempt to get an exaggerated "fighting" pose that felt like a small break-through to me. Normally as I draw the figures, they keep wanting to straighten themselves out!
this is cool! to further exaggerate, try to make it subtle where the weight is in the figure. the closer figure looks to be on the balls, but if the left leg were to be in opposition it might make the effect stronger. the figure on the right is too static, personally i'd like to see a more S shaped gesture curve from the neck to leg. maybe on this one too straighten a leg out emphasizing the weight on the bent leg? check out the manuscript from Capo Ferro, this is an example from the two weapon approach. Overall your image looks like the calm before the storm, lots of built up energy! I'd like to see the "after" and which fighter gets the upper hand! keep drawing, this is cool (:
James Hicks
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4yr
Hi all! Here is a self portrait i recently did (no reference photo, as i used a mirror, and all photos didn't capture what i was seeing....).
I'll include a few of the progress photos so you can see the steps i took to a finish. Critiques welcome! Personal critique: i went too dark all over, using a charcoal pencil. I've considered lightening some areas up, but I'll just go onto the next project and take what i learned here!
Looking at your process I don't think you gone too dark, the main problem is that you didn't add enough contrast. I'm guessing you have a light coming at the side and the face are in shadows, but even that is not clear enough.
Spend a little more time at the 2-value phase. Really define your light source and then organize your values around it. Also check your proportions. Without the reference I can't tell exactly the problem, but the eyes seem too big and the ear and the bottom third too small.
Self portraits are kinda of a pain in the ass to do because you have to maintain the same head pose for all the process, and also maintain the same light (which if you're working with natural light can change very fast).
To mitigate this problems try asking someone to take a photo from the point of view of the mirror and use the photo to check your observations every once in a while. And go for smaller sessions at the beginning as you get used to the process. As you get more familiarized with the process you can go for longer efforts.
Keep drawing,
Best regards
Started digital art half a year back and only recently tried to learn figure drawing. I'm running in circles stuck on one lesson for I am not satisfied with my 'quick' sketches. send helppp thanks
Something i learned that may help (especially with later lessons): try to accurately depict the center line, with more on one side than the other unless it is straight on. This goes for the head and the torso: usually its an egg shape (or circle) and with one accurate angle marking the center line, your proportion will soar to new heights! If that line happens to be a gestural line, it will tie the whole sketch together. Hope that helps (:
