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@eriku
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6mo
added comment inCritique - Simplify Portrait from Observation
A pencil and digital, one day apart. Have yet to watch the critique.
The pencil was an improvement over digital to be sure, but it took a long time to work the proportions. Overcompensated a bit compared to yesterday - the face now too wide as opposed to too narrow. Used a blue pencil to sketch the proportions which helped massively.
Fewer pencils were usable than expected to differentiate values. Used the full range at 6B, 2B, H, 4H, and white color, and even still the differentiation isn’t as intense as I’d like. the paper seemed to present its texture no matter how I used the tip.
The lips and ear are surely the messiest. Struggled to get coherent shapes. The eyes are also looking at the viewer, rather than the bottom right.
Merle Lueur
5mo
Proportions were not the focus on this project, but simplifying shapes and lights and shadows was. In my opinion, you did awesome on both those aspects. I love those portraits, both of them. And as someone said to me on this platform : don’t be too hard on yourself ! You are doing great.
@eriku
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5mo
Asked for help
Began by simplifying shapes, trying to capture the characteristic dark patch on the neck and frill. For better or worse, the “sphere with spikes” had a Sonic vibe to it. Not sure if the end result is as sketchy as the assignment called for. Also not quite sure I sold the head tilt perspective on the final piece. But the design forms a relatively pleasing shape. Also maybe it lacks some of the required exaggerated character?
You made a bird too ! I love these birds. Not sure what they are called in english. I like what you did, but I think you can definitely have more fun next time maybe with shapes and/or proportion ? I feel like you have what makes that bird, that bird, but now you might have a little fun with it ? I struggle to do so myself as you saw haha, so I am not sure I am in the best position to give advices on the matter.
Have a very nice day
Merle Lueur
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5mo
Asked for help
I'll share how that project went for me. It was quite a journey to be fair. I made 2 attempts at this project, one before watching the demo and one after. The first one was quite messy.
I chose to draw a black merle, and thought that I first had to study it, as I don't know what makes a merle a merle, what differentiates it from other birds. So I studied a lot of different pictures to understand that bird better. As you can see I lost some reference pictures, the process was quite messy.
I then started to do some research. It wasn't really reasearch to be honest, I just... tried and draw a merle in different position, without really knowing what I was looking for. I did not really understand at that point what was really the aim of the reasearch.
I was not really happy with myself : in my mind everything was bad and didn't look like a merle at all, but just like some random birds. I was stuck with reality because I never closed the google page with all the references, so my imagination was stuck with the photos right before me, my imagination could not wander freely. And I was too harsh on myself thinking that I can't draw, and that everything I drew just looked like some child's drawings.
As I am trying to draw digitally too, I fell in a trap to draw any reasearch on a new layer, I did not have a "reasearch" layer as it is shown, every drawing was at the same time a "reasearch" and maybe the "final" version. My steps were kinda all merged into each other.
Merle Lueur
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6mo
Asked for help
Here is my attempt at this project. The hand felt good to draw. I do not think much about the penguin. I felt that I need to work on my ellipses more with the VR girl.
I would love some critique. And I am going to watch the demo now !
Merle Lueur
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6mo
Asked for help
Great exercise. It's hard to unlearn drawing habits. I love how Stan Prokopenko manage to explain something as simple as "lines". I'll try to remember to use CSI because I feel like it helped me a lot. As often I got lost in details on the skull, and I did it whith a low attention span so it's kinda detailed and messy as the same time. I'll know to not draw when tired next time !
Merle Lueur
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6mo
Asked for help
I did the pears and had a go with the portrait. I ended up getting lost with the too many informations. I feel like I understand kinda well how different types of shadows works, but it gets hard when I have to get to light part. I also have the quite common issue of wanting to work on the details, and It's hard for me yet to work in big shapes, especially for the lights. Also, I use these exercises to get used to digital art. I am doing d'une pierre deux coups as we say in french !
