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@thenotsogrim
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27d
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Hi, excuse me, maybe I shouldn't start the assignments at midnight, but I need a bit of help... so Stan has the vertical units measured (digitally) to get the five units with the hat, and then he lays in those vertical lines on paper but... the printed out reference image is much smaller than the page that he's drawing on? I may not be getting this, but isn't this eyeballing as well? The scale is different between the two pages, so how do we know where each separator goes at this point by actually measuring? I get that one unit is the hat's height, but how can we apply that to the page if we are not working one to one, side by side?
@thenotsogrim
26d
Well, I tried anyway, but I wouldn't say I really measured anything properly after the parts that Stan showed. I tried here and there (and it worked well a few times), but I'll have to practice this somehow in the future.
@thenotsogrim
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2mo
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Wanted to finish a second set of this level 1 task, I quite liked it, even if I didn't get to draw a lot of times lately.
@thenotsogrim
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3mo
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Tried to do a good number of pictures. My application of the concepts until now is spotty, but at least now I'm conscious about trying to include them!
Well... looking at the demonstration now I can see that I totally didn't simplify enough. :D
@thenotsogrim
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3mo
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It's been a month since my first study that I did of a Jeff Watts portrait, I could finally get the time back to do one again, this time I decided to do the skull to keep things "simple". Since in the demo Stan used a charcoal pencil I also tried using it for the first time but... well, needless to say, I hope I get better at it :D To be honest the problem was largely the fact that I had no idea how to use this tool or how to keep it sharp, so I'll have to watch the old video about it again. The final result turned out to be better than I thought it would be while in the middle... but I had to totally forego caring about anything relating to shapes or relations to TRY to get lines like Jeff. Of course I mostly didn't succeed (I had to resort to a lot of eraser tricks), but at least I know now what to practice. Charcoal pencil otherwise is actually pretty fun! Just need to get used to it.
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3mo
Are you using the overhand grip by chance? When I use this grip and continuously rotate the charcoal pencil in my hand as I draw, it stays sharp for essentially the whole drawing.
This is a great study! Nice work.
@thenotsogrim
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4mo
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I decided to take one of Watts' art pieces, but my choice might've been more complex than I first thought... :D Anyway, here it is. I am pretty pleased with it, but it took ages to put in the searching lines and redoing them.
@thenotsogrim
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5mo
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After the demo, kind of lost my patiance on the shadow one because digital is not my forte but it was a good experience!:)
@thenotsogrim
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5mo
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Don't have a printer so I had to resort to digital art which I'm very new to.
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5mo
Great job trying out digital, I think the choices read very clearly! The one thing I would mention is continuing to push the hierarchy choices inside the silhouette of the first rhino. Pushing the line weight for the key areas inside, like the facial features (especially the eye, since this is how we connect with others), helps guide the viewer's eye after they see the strong impression of the heavy line silhouette.
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Here's three sketches that I've done of random pictures after the first initial three references. (I just really didn't want to repeat the hand again :P )
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I decided to take the last assignment as a digital piece since I recently got a drawing tablet and I'm getting used to it. We'll see if I keep them mixed or stick to pencil drawings for now. I seem to have a problem with enlarging everything that I draw from observation. It's getting better but I have to be really conscious of that.
