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A morning quick-sketch using a still from the movie The Banshees of Inisherin as a references (great film). I was attracted to the darkness of the the character's dress and the donkey.
I need to do more of this. I've fallen out of the daily habit of pencil sketching since trying to learn how to ink better (which is S-L-O-W!).
As you can probably tell, once I get going, I don't look back at the reference enough and just start to rely on constructive techniques (and other hackery).
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The assignment for this project was to pick from one of the 3 cleaned up outlined drawings and do a loose sketch of them. The goal with doing these was to improve your line quality. During this level 1 critique I did one of the drawings and then realized that I didn’t capture the pose. You’ll see me revisit the sketch and exaggerate it. Remember, these assignments are meant to be challenging, but also fun and I hope you’re able to keep that in mind as we progress further in the basics course.
If you want to attempt this assignment you can download the reference images and submit your work in here!
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Intro to Drawing Basics
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Its time for critiques again! In this lesson, I’ll look over your sketches from observation and address the common mistakes.
These two critique episodes took a bit longer to edit, so Level 2 critique coming out next week.
Some practice after watching the critiques. I noticed that the two Invader Zim characters both have a curve that extends from head to toe, which fits nicely with this exercise.
All drawings were completed before watching the demo and crit vids.
Really trying to stick to the brief. I gained some confidence by the time I reached the VR girl and found i stopped searching and was able to put the line down confidently. I forgot to think about the big shapes and the overall energy
Well, I still can't get the sketches look sketchy enough but I'm definitely feeling more loose with the marks I make. VR girl didn't fit and I was too focused on the details. Single page frog and penguin are from the imagination even though I'm so lvl1. I love the process of sketching and will continue on working like the lvl2 task (several studies + drawing from imagination).
Great sketchy sketches. Looking at your imagination drawings, I see a little tightness compared to the drawings you produced using a reference. I love the penguin profile looking down.
I wanted to practice another hand sketch and this had a bird so it's like a 2x1 for practice (this is my second time drawing a hand, the first one was the Proko assignment. This is just a sketch but I know this would become hard once I enter the anatomy territory, I'm not ready.)
Knew that lesson not learned, so tried again. I feel that my searching lines not loose enough and drawings too clean. A bit better with the hand's second attempt. Would appreciate some tips.
I misunderstood the purpose of the exercise. This isn’t CSI practice—it’s practice for expressing the subject’s center of mass, movement, and energy through sketching, right?
So as long as the proportions aren’t wildly off, it’s okay to ignore them a little, correct?
In other words, it’s sketching practice, isn’t it!?
After the critique video, I want to practice more looser lines. Tried with my stuffed animals. Because it's night time here, it's hard to see the face of the black bear...
Watched critique and I think now I moved closer to "desired" lines for this exercise (left - old one, right -new one)
I used the Line of Action website with a 10-minute timer.
I’m struggling a lot to avoid doing a CSI drawing — I even placed a line in the right spot and then added some light lines just to pretend I was exploring more. I also tried using those weird lines from the critique video on the feathers.
I feel lost, like I’m not really doing what was asked.
So after watching Critique I decided give this one another go with images of my choice
(I might have chosen a little to simple images for this exercise).
Feedback welcome!!!!
I tried digitally and on paper and found myself lost into details sometimes. What do you think ? Critiques, good or bad, are more than welcomed. Thanks !
