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Shelly England
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7d
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I get the point of the exercise, I’m just not sure I pulled it off with a pencil. And what’s up with the iPhone camera after this latest update? It forces warmer or cooler colors than are actual. 🤨 ugh. I’ll try another
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6d
Go slowerand be more specific. With each little dark shape
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8d
You have a average , in the ballpark ,placement going on here but you are starting to loose the smaller shapes in accuracy. The name of the game when learning this is "accuracy". Start with one of the eyes and using the average shadow and average light, try to get more specific on each little shape you observe.
Shelly England
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8d
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I like your teaching style. Learning a lot: like keep the lights and shadow colors separate (opposite of what I thought was expected/getting them close) And don’t use a light color as a shadow side highlight. I’m sure I’ll pick up more by going back through the course when I’m less eager to get brush to canvas. Patience is not my strong suit.
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8d
compare more. rapidly looking at the reference and your painting, at this stage. Look if you can spot anything where your drawing is off and keep that in mind at you now put in the average light. Use the average light like an eraser to make your drawing more accurate. This is not a race. take your time.
Shelly England
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8d
I was going for tight on the B&W but might be a little too tight between shadow and light
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8d
On the black and white scale your halftone and reflective light are too close. You need a little more contrast between the two to have proper shadow-light separation.
Shelly England
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9d
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thanks for teaching and not just demo'ing. This is great info with nice examples.
Shelly England
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10d
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A quick first attempt. I’ll do this again! The ear was really hard and eye wasn’t easy. Fun though
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7d
try using a grid of your choosing
Shelly England
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10d
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Well this is surprisingly fun! I started with a center line. I tried measuring but that seemed awfully tedious and probably not terribly helpful in progressing. The thing that seemed most helpful was tracing the printed side with my left finger while I drew the right side with charcoal (nitram). I’m right handed, so leftys would need to reverse that. Thanks for the extra exercises!
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4d
you are almost there. try squinting at the photo especially in the area of the eyes and see the dark shapes that mass together. fill those in so you can see where you are deviating from the photo. your drawing should have those filled in so you can really judge if your little shapes are correctly placed and correct size. right now they are not. His right eye is too big and a little too high. But fill in the shadow shapes to see it and then use rapid eye movement back and forth between the photo and your drawing. THE KEY TO GETTING BETTER IS SEEING YOUR MISTAKES. the best thing I can do for you is to help you see them with different little tricks to help you have a fresh eye.
