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Time for Level 2! Let’s push the shapes in our simple animal portraits and see what happens.
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Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
10d
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
12d
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
29d
Went all in on the circle, square, triangle idea. It's alot of fun to have completely different characters out of the same idea.
@goobish
30d
Redo of project done during watching the demo any critiques are welcomed thanks.
Daniel Rodriguez
2mo
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
2mo
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
2mo
I tried changing the perspective and testing some shape changes.
ANX804U
3mo
I am done, today was tiring day, I will post rest2 tomorrow most probably, hope so, I want to....
Catherina Petersen
2mo
Good job!! Looks awesome:)
Jack H
3mo
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
4mo
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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4mo
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
4mo
My sketches for the animal portrait exercise. It was a lot of fun.
Stefan Sharkov
4mo
Great work, these are strong simplifications.
Brhody Wallis
5mo
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
4mo
These explorations are very strong. I love the rooster designs, and your incorporations of shapes are spot on. Excellent work.
Tony Zhang
6mo
18… I think I’ll move on.
Stefan Sharkov
4mo
Great work with the simplifications. Level passed.
Tony Zhang
6mo
Animal Portraits 17… man I feel like I’m not getting better at all lol.
Tony Zhang
6mo
A few fantasy creatures me and my friends designed as a kid!
carla toms
7mo
Level 2 buffaloes
carla toms
7mo
Level 2 hippos
@bitwise
4mo
Beautiful line quality
carla toms
7mo
Level 2 chickens
Tony Zhang
7mo
Second attempt. Actually very few good designs… sigh.
Tony Zhang
7mo
After watching the rooster demo. So much fun!!
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7mo
Hey there! Seeing all your animal portraits, you've certainly progressed a lot and made great designs along the way. If you want to keep pushing the stylization, each attempt you can try out the opposing quality of the previous drawing -- for example, if you have a lot of curves and roundness in the design, try it out very angular with straight lines.
With proportions, you can go back to the most simple version of the animal (like for an elephant, a circle for the head, curved triangles for the tusks/trunk, the basic ear shapes) and use that as a starting point to push proportions for a specific shape each time. Thinking of 'Big, Medium, Small' (having one element of each size in your drawing) can also be useful. There are certainly a lot of areas to play around with here in this assignment -- have fun!
Tony Zhang
7mo
Hmmmm. Guess I could be a little more bold with proportions…
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