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Tori Blade
Tori Blade
USA
Hi, I'm Tori Blade, and I'm 14 years old. I've been captivated by the world of drawing since I could hold a pencil. Focus: Anatomy and Perspective
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Tori Blade
I definetly struggled with keeping shapes dynamic and interesting. I noticed that after the reference drawings, my imagination sketches got sloppy and I began losing energy to draw. I know there is something I could do better, but I am struggling to find out what. Any critiques are appreciated! 🙂
Tori Blade
Any critiques are helpful 👍
Minna Mäkinen
My Level 1 and 2. First one is from the references, second one is from memory.
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1mo
Wow, your memory and reference ones look equally great! That's cool that you can do that so well. Great job :D
Rachel Dawn Owens
This was fun :)
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1mo
Your drawings have so much personality! So fun
Vue Thao
Asked for help
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1mo
that looks amazing! Wonderful work, the shading is clean and even
@maetran09
I simplified from a different pear in the downloads. Struggled a bit with the plane changes in the middle of the pear - where its hard to determine light/dark 😁
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1mo
You did great! Your values are really clear and it is easy to tell what is going on. Great work :)
Tori Blade
Hello! I am Tori, an artist hoping to improve my perspective and anatomy skills. I am currently working on the drawing basics course, so I will be doing both courses simultaneously. I am so excited and bought this course right away. Perspective has always seemed really difficult to me, and I look forward to improving and making perspective intuitive. I want to be able to draw better from my imagination and have great technique in perspective. Being able to build anything I imagine on paper is a big dream of mine. I would love to draw through different angles without reference, so I can construct anything from my imagination. Once I learn how to draw people, I would love to apply this perspective knowledge to my human drawings, clothing, rooms, animals, you name it. My main inspiration is Kim Jung Gi, as he is amazing at drawing from imagination. I am so excited to be a part of this community and grow with you all!
@geetar
Hi everyone. I'm actually still in the middle of the Drawing Basics course, and getting close to the perspective part. I didn't want to miss out on the critiques here, so I decided to start with this class a little early. To be honest, perspective is still very new to me. I can barely even draw. In terms of masters, I'm still new to this, so I don't even know that many works where perspective is the key point. I've only seen like two drawings by Kim Jung Gi. I love manga and anime, and know that perspective is essential for drawing; I tried to limit myself to just two mangaka, and ventured out from there. Masashi Kishimoto. NARUTO. I think many in recent years either don't know or have forgotten that Kishimoto can draw like this. NARUTO certainly has its flaws, but the quality of drawing is not one of them. Yukinobu Tatsu. Dandadan. He's just an exquisite artist. I think someone else uploaded this page too. Hiroshi Yoshida. Golden Temple in Amritsar. I was very happy to see his work included in the video, so I decided to put one of his works that I particularly like. Scott Robertson. Inktober motorcycle drawing. Robertson's book How to Draw gets recommended all the time! I haven't bought it yet, but his drawings are clearly that of a master of perspective. M. C. Escher. House of Stairs. I think many of us here have an M. C. Escher work in our posts. Big picture goal. It's hard for me to judge what's realistically attainable in the span of the next few months. Maybe those of you who have more experience with perspective can advise me on this. Perhaps a capstone project where I draw a simple car from an angle, in two point perspective?
Tori Blade
2mo
Same here! I'm 40% through the drawing basics course and doing this as well. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I hope you improve and have fun!
Tori Blade
I am really conflicted and cant figure out what I am doing wrong. Any advice helps I would love to improve this but I am not sure how
Melanie Scearce
Overall you did a great job! This is a very difficult assignment, so please don't get discouraged. It will take a lot of reps to fine-tune your sight drawing skills. Finding relational angles between landmarks of the body is a great skill to practice. I noticed a few areas where the correct angles would make your drawing more proportional. The first area (red) is the angle between the eyes -- I used the eyelids as reference. The second area (blue) is the angle between his left eye and the top of the ear. You can use any pair of points that makes sense to you as reference and as long as it's translated correctly in your drawing, you will have the correct proportions. The last point is an anatomy correction. The neck in your drawing connects to the junction between the jaw and the ear lobe. The sternocleidomastoid is the muscle that makes this shape and runs from the clavicle to the skull behind the ear. It's responsible for turning the head and nodding. Because we know that the scm connects behind the ear, we know that the mass of the neck will be visible behind the ear, as shown in my draw over. Hope this helps :)
Tori Blade
Any critique is nice :D I really rushed it I am for sure going to slow down next time.
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