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Rosanne Borst
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1mo
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I learned from Paintcoach that usually the most of a painting is made up of mid-tones, and only a small part for the darks and lights. I rembered that while I started to work digitally on this project. Curious about others opinion about this!
I found myself up to 1,5 hour working on the Cornwell one in graphite pencil. Decided to make it easier/faster for myself by tracing the big shapes digitally in Procreate than making those as small as thumbnails and putting in the values.
Hope this is ok and not cheating :)
Since it is a value practise and not drawing?
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1mo
Tracing is a fine tool to use if you’re trying to save time, but you won’t learn as much.
Your Cornwall studies look really good. I like how you designed the shapes. Everything is designed nicely together.
The digital studies look cool too. I like the different iterations that you tried.
Thank you for sharing!
Niklas Nilsson
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2yr
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Some attempts at the buffalo. Like the one with more triangles even though squares feel more “heavy” and “stable”. 🐃
Such a nice idea coloring the different shapes! They look very fresh and like a nice style
I like how you captured the essence of the animal with just an outline! I dont know if it was essential but I found it helpfull to actually draw the whole shape not only the outline, makes it a lot harder a guess!
Rosanne Borst
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2yr
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I really liked this assignment. Also the restriction in the amount of shapes to use was very helpfull for keeping it quick simple and not losing myself in details.
These look great! I especially like your sketches of the gorilla and the hippo as you have really captured the form with your shape design :)
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Yeah not happy with this one. This was like my 10 th attempt at the pinguin. I seem to stay stuck in the 'lost lines' stage here.
Cant get the form right and I keep adjusting, therefore making the lines darker and darker..
How to come from this to the searching sketch lines. I thought if I just keep trying over and over, but after the 10 th one I m pretty done :p
Anyone else has this problem? Or knows how to get past this?
I'm not sure I understood your issue. Are you saying this is getting too dark too soon for you? If so, I simply suggest that you use a hard pencil, like H2 or higher. It will ensure your drawing stays quite light. And when comes the time to draw some cleaner lines, just take your soft 6B pencil and it will be intensely darker.
In any case, this sketch looks good to me.
And it's at the "searching line" stage for sure. Lost lines are far more crazy and less refined than what you did here, because they're used mostly for drawing from imagination. Here, you have a reference, so you know what you're supposed to draw already. In this situation, it's normal to skip to searching lines right away.
Yes, I drew it several times because I kept thinking I could do better. Count it as practice and move on. I also found the red erasable pencil he uses to be helpful in staying lose and the lines not getting too dark. Don’t be too hard on yourself it looks good.
Hey you are going to burn out on this penguin! Try drawing different animals and insects. It looks like you've hit the limit of what you'll get out of this particular drawing. It does look good but Imagine the entire bird was drawn in like the tail section of your drawing.
Johannes Schiehsl
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2yr
This is what I like about drawing digitally. I can make my "tought vomiting lines" (love that term) or make some rough layout lines with a broad brush and than put that in the back with low opacity (like putting a piece of paper over it on a lighttable) and go over it with cleaner, now more confident lines. Does that make sense?
Eric Lindau
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2yr
Im having a hard time keeping the proportions right with these swoopy lines, the envelope-thing might help me a bit, good advice! Im not ready to share anything jet because i know i can do it better than what I've done so far. I think the step from drawing a simple pear to these boots was a big leap. The snail was a bit more beginner friendly for sure.
The proportions were very hard on overall, and than also the proportions of those laces but at the same time trying to keep it in longer lines..
