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James Sunderland
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1yr
added comment inSharpening 6 Types of Drawing Pencils
Does this look about right?
Josh Fiddler
11mo
They look lovely. In my experience, you're going to have some harder edges where the graphite more rapidly changes angle from the drawing edge to the edge of the pencil shaft itself. If you look at what Stan has, there is a much softer, longer transition from the drawing tip to the shaft to avoid this.
That said, you may want to have a hard edge like that but that's a question of edge control you may develop later.
EDIT: I added a screen cap from the video from 8:54
@psychedomination
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1yr
Hey everyone, I just started the Drawing Basics course. I'm posting my first assignment. I did this drawing before watching the demo. I'm trying to develop my eye for seeing light and shadows. I find that the most tricky. I'm also trying to free up a bit when I draw. I'm looking forward to the process, I'm going out to get some softer pencils today.
James Sunderland
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1yr
Asked for help
I bought the figures drawing fundamentals course a fat 3 years and unfortunately, did stop at certain point with it because it was very confusing to me and I was getting very frustrated😔
BUT now I came back! And eager to learn some basic first! So here I am.
I decided to do both level 1 and 2 because ehhhhhh why not?
Used a HB 3.0 mechanical pencil for the drawings
Level 1: so after I did the contour and shadow, I was kinda having a hard time deciding what was a dark shadow, and what was a light shadow. So I made a guess and kinda just placed it where it felt right. Then when I got to the light shading part, I didn't add the 3 volumes liked asked, I did the highlight and then.... well just kinda felt like I did whatever on the out side of highlight. Not sure if I was having difficulties because it was very round or because the apple it self was kinda a dark color but there you have it.
Level 2: (was drawn before I looked at proko example) veeeeerry difficult for me to find the shapes within the face, a lot of uncertainty and guessing. And when it came to the facial features like the nose, mouth and eyes. I REALLY had no clue what to even put down as a shadow, light shadow. you can really see at the lips that it's a really mess right there and that I kinda gave up. The only thing I knew for certain is that right side of the face is very dark. But I kinda completely threw the idea of volume out window here.
I never posted my drawing on the figures fundamentals course cause they just looked so bad to me that I just hated the idea of some one looking at it 😔 BUT NOT THIS TIME! I desperately need some qritics here! Thank you if you read all this and if you are a fellow student, then I wish SUCCESS for you!
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1yr
Welcome to the course! :)
In response to the light & shadow, it's helpful to know the elements at play. Focusing on the apple example, the light reaches the table and some rays will bounce onto the apple, causing the closest edge to become lighter, but still within the shadow. This is where you will see the lighter of the two shadow values, whereas the darker value is closer to the division between shadow and light. On the light side, you already have your two lightest values, but the third lightest (aka the middle value) can be used for the area where light starts transitioning towards the shadow side. I think once you apply this to the apple, the same ideas will apply when tackling the portrait.
