Ron Kempke
Somewhere over the rainbow
I am not a monkey. This is my cousin's photo but the engineer's cap is mine and I wish he'd return it to me.
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@omnesilere
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7d
added comment inAssignment: Mirroring
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Straight edge was used on the goblet. I ended up using a 90* triangle on the face so I could try to get some perpendicular help going. At least one of these lines based off the center I screwed up on and of course that was for the eyes so I ended up "fixing" them a couple times more times than I'd like to admit; before I caught that. Wolfs carbon on printer paper wasn't much fun either but I'm mitigating that by just not going full dark. Ie I'm too lazy I guess. Great exercises though. Practicing eyeing and measuring angles is never bad.
Ron Kempke
6d
Fold your vase in half along its centerline and hold it up to light to see where you're off. Maybe turning the drawing upside down will reveal the discrepancies to you too.
Florian Villoing
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6d
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Yesterday I went ahead and moved to the next phase but only to realize 2 issues: 1. My middle light was too light and 2. Some of the drawing was annoyingly off (eyes, nose, lips and side contour of the face). I could have moved on and tried to fix that on the go but this is not a race and I want this learning experience to result in the best possible painting I can produce with my current abilities. So I decided to take a step back, fix the drawing issues as much as I could and cover the whole light area with what I started to use for my half tones. I think this already looks better :-)
Reminds me of the paint by number paintings my mother made when I was a kid. There were also colored pencil paint by number sets you could buy at your local art store. Anyone remember those?
Ron Kempke
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11d
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I understand the family separation of a single local value but how do you determine the degree of family separation for two differing local values so they appear to be in the same light?
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11d
If you have a value scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being black and 0 being white, you could pick any 3 that are together on that scale as one family. The separation should not be so great as to seem to be too big a jump. If you do, the painting will look too choppy. This is just a rule of thumb, not some great law you cannot ever break. But just know in general, keeping the families close together will result in a cleaner sculpted look. If for instance, your highlight value is too big a jump from average value the head can end up looking like it was covered in sweat or oil.
Ron Kempke
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1mo
Nothing against Stan, but comparing his drawing to the reference photo, the drawing needs to lose at least 50 pounds. (I think the model would be offended by it.)
Ron Kempke
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5mo
From a top view, the rear of the human head is wider than the front of it so I believe a "keystone" box top was intended to show it - hence the diverging lines.
Chavel
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1yr
Some animal structure practice! Critique is welcome! Initially I was struggling a lot with breaking down animals into shapes (what shapes to use, etc.) but moderndayjames’ video on how to draw animals really helped. However I know I still have more improvements to make so I’m considering spending another week on this after watching Proko’s critique video (not sure why I didn’t watch that beforehand).
You seem to rely on outlines and shapes and avoid adding much structure. Try building your reference with imaginary boxes in place of shapes. Imagine you're using blocks of clay. If that's too difficult, get some clay and actually build it with clay blocks, or build it by gluing sugar cubes together. Then draw what you see and draw it from various angles. Take photos of it and draw directly on the prints the structure you see. It takes a lot of observation and practice to convincingly show structural depth on your paper, but it's important to make it fun too.
@lightsdesu
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5mo
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hey Michael, thanks for the info and examples. I’m struggling with figuring out the jaw and neck. It drives me crazy. Here are my examples for this project. Hopefully I made it in time for critiques.
The intersection of the cylindrical neck with the bottom plane of the jaw is a curve. Your drawing shows it as a straight line or it's been left out altogether. It's helpful to imagine the curve that's produced by partially cutting a large diameter tube, representing the neck, at a slight angle with a saw. The jaw's bottom plane isn't perfectly flat but imagining it as a plane, the saw, is easier than imagining it as part of an even larger cylinder that cuts the smaller cylinder of the neck.
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Day 6 Week 1 Chonky Blaster Gun
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Fire hydrant and Toy Car - i hope its okay to have them combined in one composition.
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Day 7 Week 1 Playground
I see that you used your thirds construction to locate the swing's seats horizontally, relative to the length of the top bar. Your thirds construction is correct but can you prove it is?
