Stephen Clark
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@maximilienle2d
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5mo
added comment inMannequinization – Structure of the Human Body
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I think I went a little too much in the anatomy, for lack of understanding the forms
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5mo
I can understand why you feel you went too far into the anatomy of the form on this mannequin study.
But if you're working from anatomy knowledge and trying learn how they work together, this is solid.
Good use of the cross contours in here too!
@maximilienle2d
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5mo
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dis 3 of those, the dogs were constructed with yellow pencil but I decide to continue the drawing since i liked the gesture a lot
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5mo
Cool to see the process here! Great choices on the simplification of colors on the corgis.
Andreas Kra
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5mo
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Here, I focused on practicing and repeating the drawing of skulls. To keep the practice interesting, I added some skulls of other animals for variation.
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5mo
Solid! Love the open mouth human skull on the second page! Strong studies.
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5mo
Love this! Nice clean exploration of simplification.
Nicole Guz
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5mo
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I have a hard time making shapes imteresting! This is my try of it though
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5mo
I think you've got some fun stories and character in these guys! Don't be afraid to give them rolls like the Michelin man. That would give you a little more depth and some fun places to put the cross-contour lines too.
Angiev
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5mo
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Here's my first try at the mushroom warmups. This is a great and fun warm up that is challenging me in my lines. Again, I'm so happy I took this course even though I've been painting and drawing for year. Love ths warm up.
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5mo
Good ellipse explorations! You seem to be putting the exercise to great use. For a couple, it looks like you did slow down on the marks and ended up with some wavy ellipse sides. You don't have to whip your arm around at crazy speeds or anything but when you slow down, you'll get less smooth lines and have that shakyness to it.
I think my favorite here is the one towards the top of the first page with the 4 and 5 identified on it. It kinda looks like little legs gaga
@creatureoflegend
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5mo
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Looks like I got the slant of the left side wrong and pushed the nose too far to the right.
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there's some good simplification going on here! You've made some specific choices while laying it in with straights that are solid. I appreciate that in some areas, your simplification was applied seemingly with the intention to prioritize what was and was not important to the overall piece.
I do think that you've got some proportion issues in here that make it feel like the nose is too far over. But it seems like the nose is too small, overall. One thing I found handy with his face is that the nose itself was a really good tool for sight measuring. Try comparing the size of the nose you initially lay in to to other parts of the drawing. We can see that from bridge to base of the nose is about the same as the measurement from bottom of lip to bottom of the chin (under the beard). checking relative proportion like this helps a lot.
Keep sharing what you make with the lessons! I like what you've got going so far!
@mstefan
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5mo
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hello guys, can you help me with an opinion about this drawing. How could I improve it and what mistakes did I make?
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Seconding Martha! Without having been there to see the model, we can only assume. But a general assumption would say that his head in relation to his other limbs and torso probably wasn't that large.
A fun thing to do with life drawing is to pick a specific thing to study with the session. It could be worthwhile to do quick sketches one day, rendering on another or other more specific challenges,
I think you, overall, have a good grasp on some core art concepts and would love to see you try to hone in on and focus on a couple things, starting from the broadest like proportions before trying to apply them all at once.
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5mo
I think you might be in a spot where you're moving ahead with details before getting your proportions in place. We've all done it! Getting those proportions in first will help you way more than it might realize at first.
I think you've got some good things going on here! Your lines aren't all scratchy, so you can make a line with a confidence and that's GREAT.
But there are some big differences between your drawing and the refence. The hat on the guy is actually pretty tall, being about the height of the area of his face from the mouth to the top of the visible forehead. You're is very short. And the area between the bridge of his nose and the eye on the left of the photo is small but in your drawing is wider than that space for the right eye.
Putting that shine in the eye in the reward after we've done a lot of the rest of the work. Making sure you do things in order proportions, to blocking in shadow and highlight areas before starting detailing will make you happier with your results and make the time you put into drawing more useful.
I look forward to seeing more of what you make in the future!
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Some practice with robo beans. The key is to maintain both gesture and structure
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5mo
I especially like the bottom left one on this page. The tilt of the head with that kind of backwards ben and extension is a really important element to sell that pose.
