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Minna Mäkinen
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3mo
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My Level 1 and 2. First one is from the references, second one is from memory.
Tori Blade
2mo
Wow, your memory and reference ones look equally great! That's cool that you can do that so well. Great job :D
This looks so good. Even if it isn't 100% accurate, I absolutely love your shape design and line quality.
Minna Mäkinen
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3mo
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This was definitely tricky. The reference photo is not the easiest one out there. Strangely enough, I found it easier to start from the bottom and block in the shoulders first so I could figure out the size of the head better.
This also took me way more than an hour. I think it took around 3, maybe longer :´)
PS: I hate noses.
Minna Mäkinen
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3mo
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Finally finished mine. I started out really strong but then my brain just farted with the hippo. The anatomy is so so hard.
Hey! you're a much better artist than me so take my critique with a grain of salt, your discernment is probably much better than mine, but I think you hadn't exaggerated the square forms on the buffalo and the hippo enough. For an example, you made the ears of the square water buffalo much more pointy than they needed to be, the same goes for the chin and the horns of it as well. While It doesn't look aggressive, it also doesn't have the square sort of structured archetype feel that Matthew Mattesi described. Perhaps giving it a wider jaw and more broad features could help give off that large and strong feel rather than the slender and elegant or majestic sort of feeling it has. The opposite goes for the squared off hippo. I think you had made him too rounded, while he isn't as circle based as the circle baby hippo, the square one still has a very childish or friendly sort of feeling to it, because it's so round and soft feeling. they all look fantastic though
Wanted to play with shapes a little before starting the official assignments. But simple does not fit into my vocabulary so I went and finished my design :3
Minna Mäkinen
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3mo
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Been slacking quite a bit but I did manage to finish my master studies. I chose two digital artists as it would've felt a bit strange to try to replicate traditional lines digitally. I chose aveartz and vixiearts. I found the aveartz studies a lot easier even if there was a lot of delicate precision in the lines. I felt like I started to really understand the style.
I also added in the colors for some extra mileage.
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3mo
so cute!
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3mo
Really fantastic studies. I enjoy the additional shape, structure you found with yours. The ears of the first cat, and muzzle of the second have some really pleasing additions to the line work that clarifies the forms. Great work!
Minna Mäkinen
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4mo
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I can't put into words how important and useful this exercise is. I actually went the extra mile and traced the entire rhino so I can work with my usual brush and really go out of my way to control the pen pressure.
I also included some drawings I've done before where I've used line-weight. However, now that I've done the assignment, I feel like my own drawings could use some light and shadow line-weight added in there as well. I tend to go the priority route and often my drawings end up looking flatter than they should be.
I feel the exact same way, I redrew mine so many times over catching another area I didn't manually "correct" the pen pressure in to actually show the form and not just a mechanically "nice" line drawing
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I stayed pretty loose with the hand and the penguin but the VR girl's loose-ship sailed far far away into the sunset. All the geometric shapes caused me to obsess about the perspective. Also, an interesting development of me drawing the penguin.
I understand form a lot better when I draw digitally.
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4mo
Really cool to see your progression with the penguin. Nice work!
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I've been sketching a lot of bunnies lately. The photos are mostly just random stuff I found from Pinterest. Then I sketched out some bunnies from imaginations. Even colored the one I drew in Procreate. No rough sketches though since I didn't know I would add these to the course project.
