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Jo Lefeaux
I haven't been drawing for a fair while, and I felt like I had a lot of trouble with this. I've included my three recent attempts. By the third attempt I felt like I was starting to get a bit of actual structure in the fruit, instead of just lines, but the structure still didn't match the fruit very well. I also had trouble getting 5 distinct shades on the page. Last picture was a more 'normal' drawing attempt for a comparison (spent a similar amount of time but didn't try to simplify). I feel like when trying to simplify the structure, I was struggling more to get features in the right place. I'm still very novice, so if anyone has any pointers for what I can work on, I'd appreciate it. :) Gonna try to stick with the course this time, and see if I can progress a bit!
Riin Kuro
6mo
Heyo! I’m Riin and I’m BRAND NEW here please take this critique with a grain of salt as I haven’t gotten to dive into the new learning of still life using planes as you have begun to learn! From what I can tell you’re already off to an incredible start! You’ve successfully identified your lightest and darkest shade regions. Your contour lines also progressively begun to match the 3D shape of the fruit. Your external linework however is where I’m seeing you struggle most. Slow down on your outer line of the fruit, as it seems you’re shorting yourself on the overall lengths and curvature of the outer line of the fruit. Stick to keeping it simple! But start trying to train your eye to recognize the proportions created by your outside planed lines. I hope this helps! Again I’m new here, let me know if I can help or if I need to better explain! edit: it also helps to have a more direct light if possible to give you stronger defined values and shapes created from those values !
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are great! I like how you sketched out the different planes of the fruits. That’s really helpful when deciding the different values. Heres another demo that may help you with your next fruit drawing. Keep it up!
Jo Lefeaux
Tried playing around with an HB to start with. Sharpened with a standard sharpener first (like I’ve done in past), then tried out sharpening with a blade and exposing more graphite (2nd two pages). I felt like I had more control transitioning from thin to fat lines, and the graphite was sturdier than I expected. I forgot to get sandpaper though, so I found it a little uneven. But it felt good to draw with!
Renee Painter
It's fun to see the difference between the two.
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