Kalp Bhavsar
Vancouver, BC
Hi. I am a college student pursuing a career in the Visual Effects industry. I am fascinated by art, science, storytelling and people. #DFTBA
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Kalp Bhavsar
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3mo
added comment inDigital Painting in Grayscale
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Done with a mouse so already working with one hand tied behind my back. still would appreciate any and all thoughts...
Kalp Bhavsar
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3mo
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idk kinda ranges from really good to really bad... dont want to rely on luck tho i want to become more consistent. Any suggestions?
Kalp Bhavsar
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3mo
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Chose my own reference and was working with a mouse did my best... Feedback??
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3mo
Good value blocking! I do notice that your light half-tones tend to lean a bit darker, so brightening the area of light would help capture the setting and also bring in more value contrast to your painting.
Kalp Bhavsar
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2yr
This is likely one of the best Proko videos I've watched detailing how an artist thinks. Thank you to all involved in its production! Look forward to more Kim Jung Gi content if you get the chance.
@zook
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3yr
I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a problem that I have with twisting and overlapping lines. Stan says in the previous video that the two corners of the form closest to the viewer will be the lines with overlap, but I feel that alot of the time in these examples he doesn't follow this rule. I saw that someone else asked the same question and that the answer was that if there is an "s curve" then the overlap lines follow the curve and in other circumstances follow the other rule. But even then when there is an s curve Stan seems to go against it in the example at 21:45
Basically I'm really confused with overlapping lines now
@zook Yeah, the S Curve description isn't really too intuitive for me either. I'm still working on twists myself. Maybe try and looking for references that you know have a twist and try and instead of connecting the two masses of the bean, start with indicating which way each of them turn, i.e. Using arrows to denote a clockwise/counterclockwise turn. Hope this helps.
I tried overhand grip with Ipencil , didn’t know it’s possible! Lines are a bit wonky, I know... but I did try to vary the line as suggested:) what do you think? Any criticism very very welcome!
@Vera Zgonik I think it looks great. The only suggestion I can think of is focusing more on overlap and cross contours. If you indicate the 3 dimensional form using cross contours, the beans would feel much more solid and it would be easier to tell the orientation at a quick glance.
Kalp Bhavsar
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3yr
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Hello Everyone,
I was really into Court Jones's Caricature course. I am still an amateur to understanding anatomy and I thought exploring caricature would be an engaging way to think about anatomy. I really think learning to exaggerate form and facial features is key to understanding likeness. So my caricature skills would help me make better photorealistic portraits.
As such, I came up with a cool project to play around with caricature. I made caricatures of all my former high school classmates (just graduated!). I did these with charcoal pencils and they're each about 8" by 5". Obviously I used more than one reference photo but for privacy's sake and the photo limit I'll just post one of them.
It was mostly an exercise in trying to capture the likeness. Personally I think I could have tried to exaggerate even more and push the likeness to its limits, but I'm curious to see what y'all think. Please let me know. Thanks.
If you need to comment on a particular caricature just identify the number of the picture. Eg: Picture 3 Critique:... Picture 1 is the reference. All the other ones follow sequentially.
PS: I also did a self caricature a few months prior to these ones. You can check that one out here: https://www.proko.com/s/t1mf
Also let me know what kind of caricature art you like.
Kalp Bhavsar
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3yr
I followed a few of the lessons in this course a while back for a self caricature. I didn't really spend too much time on each video. Kind of just rushed through because I was spending too much time on it. I really think studying caricature is really helpful in understanding likeness as much as anatomy is. Here is my reference, rough sketch comprehensive (in charcoal) and my final drawing (graphite pencil). Personally, I feel like I couldn't quite translate the success of the sketch onto the final piece (maybe I got lucky?). I also could have tried to exaggerate more. I particularly want to know what to do if I can't quite get my final to be as good as my sketch, but all critiques and feedback are welcome.
Kalp Bhavsar
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3yr
Looks really cool. For me, charcoal is the easiest to work with because I find that I have more control with dry mediums. If you're just starting out with it, try doing life drawings and render them photorealistic. Doing still life and figure drawings with Charcoal really helped me get good with it.
