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I took the feedback from my previous post and watched the demo, so I attempted to do the pear drawing again (different picture this time since the example used a different picture). I think I did a better job thanks to imagining the pear as a low-polygon 3D shape, but I think I may have taken too many creative liberties with this drawing (the horizontal shadow across the pear I think didn't make sense but it helped me think of the pear as two blocky shapes on top of one another).
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Hi everyone, just bought the course today after reading an article about how I need to be productive and practice something. So yeah, this was my first attempt at Project 1.
I think I focused my attention on the brown spots on the pear too much, which then led me to using six values instead of five because I made brown its own separate colour and couldn't figure out which on the value scale it belonged to. At some point I think I forgot part of the instructions for the project so please let me know if I skipped a step or rule.
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Yes, focusing on the superficial details can definitely mess you up. It's a bit counterintuitive because clearly those spots are a different value than the rest of the skin of the pear, but here we want to focus more on the basic form of the pear.
Think about it as if it was a low-polygon 3D model. It has flat planes that are either tilted away or towards the light source. The degree that it is turned away from the light source will dictate how dark or light the plane is.
To simplify requires a bit of invention so don't feel completely tied to the reference. Think about how light would interact with the planes of the pear and do your best to indicate that.
Your basic shapes look really good here, if you ignore those superficial details I think you can clean up your drawing a bit and have nice clear value shapes. You're on the right track!
