Time for Level 2! Let’s push the shapes in our simple animal portraits and see what happens.
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Gala rog
7d
Had a lot of fun with this one, i dont usually feel comfortable exploring with character design and simplifying the animals first to basic shapes has helped me a lot!
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7d
Wow!! These have so much character, I especially love these two.
Henry
1mo
Learning how to be free and explore more but these shape lessons are fun and looking to keep building up the skillset of manipulating shapes. Stan makes it fun!
Any feedback is welcome
Tommy Pinedo
2mo
This is my attempt for level 2 before the demo. I was struggling with this exercise in the beginning because I felt that I was too safe, and too geometric with my shapes. If you take a look on the first image on the left, chickens 1 to 3 were too stiff, and too geometric. I did not know how to stretch my shapes or how to. It felt a bit like I had to draw from imagination.
So I went on pinterest and studied some designs visually. I went back and did chickens 4 to 6 and I did my best to be loose and not so perfect. I wanted to make my shapes more organic. So with each animal I focused on stretching the circles, squares and traingles. I hope it looks good. :/
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2mo
These are excellent! I like your geometric shapes

Shreyans
2mo
One thing I observed when coming up with new shape designs is that the idea to come up with is kinda hard in its own. Designing and modifying the shapes wasn't the hard part for me, but coming up with ideas for different and interesting shapes was the challenging thing for me. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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2mo
I dig the variety. You made a bunch of iterations. Nice work!

Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
3mo
Well, there are my sketches copying what Stan does. In one of them I got carried away by my imagination...I hope you like them. I think the loose lines are becoming more and more noticeable.

Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
3mo
After watching this video I was really shocked to see to what extent Stan has the ability to play with shapes and take them to his field. I have realized how much I still have to practice in order to advance. You can really see the years of practice Stan has in drawing. My most sincere congratulations. Until now I had not realized to what extent my creativity is blocked. My lines are coarse to variegated.
Natalie&Jeff VG
4mo
Went all in on the circle, square, triangle idea. It's alot of fun to have completely different characters out of the same idea.
Tommy Pinedo
2mo
Interesting design! I like the unique style for this.

@goobish
4mo
Redo of project done during watching the demo any critiques are welcomed thanks.
Daniel Rodriguez
5mo
I am very satisfied with how these came out. I tried to follow what Stan was doing but at the same token let myself be a little loose. But all criticism is welcome to help me improve. @Martha Muniz
@mstefan
5mo
Hi there! The animal I worked on is the snow leopard. I tried several variations and attached a picture of the leopard. I would be delighted if you could give me a critique on the shape design.

@arthiecio
5mo
I tried changing the perspective and testing some shape changes.
ANX804U
6mo
I am done, today was tiring day, I will post rest2 tomorrow most probably, hope so, I want to....

Catherina Petersen
5mo
Good job!! Looks awesome:)

Jack H
6mo
It was fun trying to think of the different ways to change the shapes of each of the animals. I definitely felt that birds are one of the more easier subjects, compared to other mammals like a dog, for instance.

@creasofie
7mo
I think I pushed my designes to far to the simple shape I choose. I'll try again keeping it closer to the animal.
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7mo
I love all the different styles you tried out! It's definitely good practice to try opposite approaches like you did, like one more realistic and another more simplified/stylized, or more angular vs more curved. Keep it up! :)
Daniele Olevano
8mo
My sketches for the animal portrait exercise. It was a lot of fun.
Stefan Sharkov
7mo
Great work, these are strong simplifications.
Brhody Wallis
8mo
Not the most jaw droppingly original designs here... but I did not know I could draw like this! I was able to manipulate and turn things in space without additional references... this is the best! What a great lesson this one has been. Thank you! 🥳
Stefan Sharkov
7mo
These explorations are very strong. I love the rooster designs, and your incorporations of shapes are spot on. Excellent work.
Tony Zhang
9mo
18… I think I’ll move on.
Stefan Sharkov
7mo
Great work with the simplifications. Level passed.
Tony Zhang
9mo
Animal Portraits 17… man I feel like I’m not getting better at all lol.
Tony Zhang
9mo
A few fantasy creatures me and my friends designed as a kid!
carla toms
10mo
Level 2 buffaloes
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