Melanie Scearce
Melanie Scearce
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Laurent Van Acker
Challenged myself to do all 24 before watching demo and critiques (as that's a few hours of content). Most went fast, and noticeably got faster the more I progressed. What do you think could improve? I doubt I don't have blind spots :). I consulted the eBook a few times as well, but I'm really eager to watch the demos and continue with new drawings!
Melanie Scearce
Very solid drawings! I love the gesture of #3 and #20. Keep pushing the degree of exaggeration of gesture in these poses. Some of the less dynamic poses are a bit stiff. Look for patterns that you can push with some invention and lean into the power of asymmetric curves. Sometimes you might push it too far, but that's okay. You have to break it sometimes so you know where the limit is.
Gannon Beck
431st Day of Proko and counting. Untimed tonight.
Melanie Scearce
That red is so nice!
Evan Wray
Took me a while to get back onto this project. Ginger and my dogs head, and then some non-organic cross contouring to feel out the differences. Realizing halfway through a lot of these recently that I'm losing track of line quality/weight/perspective and trying to refocus on those things and incorporate them.
Melanie Scearce
It is a lot to think about all at once, but these are looking really good! Are these wavy lines I marked in red an indication of the contour of the ginger root or the wrinkles of the growth pattern?
@christalynn
Coquettish squirrel-I am definitely not there yet on line quality—but this was a fun project.
Melanie Scearce
I like the facial expression you chose out of your sketches. I think it matches the theme of your coquettish squirrel the best!
@kuhmu
Struggled with the laces but otherwise I'm fairly happy with them
Melanie Scearce
These look great! Good line quality.
Ben Johnston
Hey hey. This is my first proko assignment. Took a few tries but I think they turned out ok. Pls excuse some of the left handed smudges in the background. Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Melanie Scearce
Hello! Nice work with these. You did a great job using hard edges to show the shifts in value. One thing I would point out to keep mindful of is the effect of the placement of the light values and the core shadow value. Typically when a darkest value is adjacent to a light value, it represents a sharper edge, which is why you use half tones to show a gradual shift or roundness. Even though we are only using straight lines for this exercise, we can still show a gradual plane shift by using the darker half tone to separate the light halftone from the darkest value. It will require some invention to design good shapes for this exercise, so thinking about the pear as if it was built by rectangular planes is a helpful.
Naomi
Melanie Scearce
Great job with this assignment. The only thing I would adjust is to move the index finger over so that it is originating out of that side plane of the cube of the palm. These hands have great gesture!
Dani Torres
I made these with references, any critiques? 😊
Melanie Scearce
The gesture on the seal at the bottom on the second page looks great!
Slava
Day 12 Had a couple of days in a row that were rough and I felt like all the daily sketches turned out awful, but today made a page of whales that I really really like, so wanted to share it here Thank you
Melanie Scearce
I really love the gesture of the big whale. Nice work!
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