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scott ford
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2yr
Pear demo by observation, after watching Stan draw the pear, serious wow …here is my second try …
Jean Gao
2yr
I checked out your first attempt, and that's some serious improvement! Awesome! The shape and proportions of the pear look really accurate.
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Im posting my 2 attempt on the pear, hope i can still do the portrait today before the day ends so it so it´s still on time
Nice! There's a lot of improvement between the first and second pears! I like how there are a bunch of 90-degree angles in the shadows of pear 2. Gives it a cool stylized look.
One suggestion, it might help to angle your paper differently when taking a photo. The reflection of light at the top of the page makes it hard to see the drawing there.
Andrey
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2yr
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This is my most decent portrait entry to date, on which I spent a lot of time but in the end it does seem like there is some resemblance to the original. Albeit with some errors in proportions. Luckily we're just simplifying for now hehe. I decided to flip it.
Looks great! I like how effective the simple shapes on his neck and collar are at giving them volume.
Anna S
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2yr
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Probably too late, but here are my last attempts. I would have worked on the portrait a couple more hours, if I had a couple more hours...
Ben M
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2yr
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This took me a while! Tried doing it on toned paper to spice it up a little. Would love to hear critiques.
Some things I think I struggled with:
- How to do core shadows
I know I'm "supposed" to put in core shadows, so I did, but I can't really see them in the reference image, so I'm not sure how to do them correctly. I kind of just traced the dark area with an even darker area and crossed my fingers!
- Choosing shapes in the halftones
I think the hardest part of the project for me was choosing where to draw the lines between the light and dark halftones. I think if I were to give this project another shot, I would try to be more intentional about choosing shapes that accentuate the structure of the object. I kind of just went with my best guess from observation here.
- Clean shading
Every time I thought I was done shading, I would take a step back and notice all these patchy spots and conspicuous lines. I'd carefully go over the offending areas again, but the issue would just move somewhere else! I think I ended up in a place I'm okay with, but I think I got lazy towards the end, especially in the background. I definitely need to practice shading large areas smoothly.
Another question I had was about the highlights. Are they too white here? Can highlights even be too white? For some reason they look a little out of place to me, but maybe it's the just the shape and size that are the issue.
I love this! I think the shading came out nicely, and the shape of the shadowed area on the left shows the pear's form very well. I was unsure how to do the dark bits that stick out in the upper left in my own drawing; it's interesting to see how others handled it. I like that you included the jagged parts of the shadow but still managed to keep it simple.
We also seem to have had the same realization about being intentional with shapes partway through the drawing. Next time!
I think you may be right about the highlights. In the demos, the tone of the paper itself was the highlight, but here your highlights are brighter than the paper. If you did a value chart of everything in the image, the paper tone would have its own spot, even though it's not used on the pear. I tried doing three versions digitally based on your values. The first was from eyedropping parts of the image, the second is the first converted to grayscale, and the third is a 5 value scale, removing the value of the paper. The difference between the highlight and the next shade looks bigger to me than the difference between any other pair of adjacent values.
The highlight is also a cooler white than the warm color of the paper, which will make it stick out more in contrast even when the values are perfect.
Jean Gao
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2yr
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Hi all, here's my attempt at pear #2. Biggest lesson learned? Plan the whole drawing before getting detailed! Hopefully the shadow falling behind the value chart isn't too distracting. I'm not sure I spaced the values evenly enough, and a less textured paper might've made things easier. Picking out the difference between the two shadow values was a challenge. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes a look!
This attempt is a lot better! Good job making progress. One thing I suggest is to keep an eye on those shadows. The core shadow is darkest. On the top left part your darker part is on the edge of the pear. I believe this wouldn't happen in this case because the light would bounce up and hit that edge, creating a reflected light in the shadow. It's extremely subtle in this picture. Notice how you did the bottom half of the pear shadow on the left. That's more accurate. Keep it up!
I love the choices you made in the shadow area! I feel like the shape of the core shadow really helps illustrate the form. Looking at this one is actually pretty helpful for me because I wasn't sure what to do there!
