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Nigel Tantrum
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1mo
added comment inDid they get rid of the blue "purchased" label on courses?
I've bought more than a few courses and follow a few I don't own. By looking at "My Classroom" I certainly can't tell which is which. I don't know if a distinguishing mark was ever a feature in the past, but it certainly would be a good idea in the future.
Soul
1mo
Ye it used to be lol. i think they mainly had it because back then you could delete any course from the classroom, including the ones you bought, but now you can't so it makes sense why they changed it.
~ was still nice to visually see which ones I owned and which ones I didn't, but I'm not complaining lol, just nit-picking
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My attempts at this assignment. I like to keep things as simple as possible. I hope these can help some students out there.
Soul
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2mo
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Here's my first boots attempt, took forever lol. I probably just overthought a lot of it tho, rather than working quickly, which led to the longer time. That'll be something I work on improving for my snail attempt.
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1mo
I like the sketchy quality of your lines.
Soul
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2mo
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What can we check against our value scales to see whether it's a good progression or not? Like how do we check against the "right answer" lol. Or is there even a "right answer" to really strive for?
Dennis Yeary
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3mo
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will this work in procreate on a tablet?
I'd imagine with digital you can just choose the value you want to use honestly, like the training and stuff would mainly be in being able to choose the right value when doing studies and stuff, and less in the actual physical technique of it, if that makes sense. With traditional you'd have to worry about technique, *and* seeing value properly and stuff when doing studies. Those are just my thoughts off the top of my head
Soul
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3mo
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Throwing this out there, but I've rewatched/listened to the draftsmen clip on "How to Approach Figure Drawing (A Guide for Taking Proko Courses)" and one question I thought of recently was how it applied to structure and anatomy. Right now I'm revisiting the figure course and my plan was to split off and practice the drawing basics "How perspective works" and "Intuitive perspective" sections and then afterwards go back to the figure course and go up to mannequinization. Afterwards either jumping straight into anatomy and taking a break sometime during the course to bounce between portrait courses and back to anatomy or vice versa.
Anyways the main question is, what would be the wisest decision to go about building up to anatomy? Should I not take a small "side quest" 💀 and visit the basics course for structure, and just jump straight into anatomy? Introducing myself to it now and when I want a break from anatomy later, going to the basics course to practice structure for a bit? Or the opposite, and continue working on structure through the figure and other courses till I have it down well enough, where I feel I can handle the complex structure anatomy brings.
A bit of a long winded question but I tried my best to say it clearly lol, anyways thank you for anyone considering reading all that and helping :)
Soul
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3mo
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So many things I'm struggling with lol, like how exactly to draw from observation. I look, observe the subject for a solid like 30 sec to a minute, looking at the edges, curves, how many planes are showing, etc. Then look at the page and still struggle a bit to draw what I remember, but when I look at the subject again and bounce back and forth, I get a bit tripped out since the perspective slightly changed so deciding between being faithful to the drawing or to the subject is kinda rough.
I haven't really thought of tapering yet, since I'm drawing from observation, but I do want to try adding varying degrees of tapering/foreshortening once I draw from imagination (all of this was from observation). Line quality, how to actually draw an elipse, and other stuff are a bit frustrating too lol, but I'm honestly not stressing over it, so far this exercise has been pretty fun despite me complaining so much 💀
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3mo
It sounds like you're doing the right things. Visual memory is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so as long as you are enjoying the process all there is to do is practice :) You can check out this visual memory game to help you with the reps: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/project-visual-memory-games/assignments.
Good work! My suggestion for your trouble is to do one after the other, accuracy from observation then imagination (that may start from observation, but you fill out the rest yourself from the theory).
Then you can draw over and compare with the original and takes notes for what to do and look out for and repeat!
Harry Green
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3mo
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It's been a while since I properly did some technical drawing and since I'm not happy with my art at the moment, I thought it would be good to go back to basics and refresh myself on the fundamentals.
Here's some 1 minute gesture drawings I did this morning. The main thing I picked up on during my session is how sketchy or scratchy my lines can be, which I believe I can improve on by limiting myself on the number of lines I'm allowed to use. Is there anything else I can improve upon with my gesture studies?
These are great! You already pointed out what I was going to say, how the line quality could be given some attention, but in terms of expressivness and body language these are pretty good. There's no end to improvement
