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Download the photo reference images of seals and sea lions.
Level 1 - Draw from Reference
Draw their gesture and design dynamic shapes using the concepts from this lesson and the previous lesson.
Remember that gesture is not the contour, so don't just copy the outlines. Look for the movement and energy throughout the shapes. Use your whole arm and use the looser sketch line that we learned about.
Level 2 - Draw from Memory or Imagination
Start with the level 1 project and after 5 to 10 poses, turn the page, put away all the reference photos and do more drawings from imagination or from memory.
You can try to invent your own poses and design those shapes to be dynamic. Or you can try to remember the poses you already drew and use those as inspiration. Try to push and design with a focus on drawing dynamic shapes. It doesn't matter how accurate you get to the original photo, it's more about designing the shapes to look dynamic and interesting.
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Deadline for submissions to be included in the video critique is next Thursday (8/24/23)
* Because of the large amount of reference images, it would help a lot of you include the reference you used for each drawing. I'm more likely to select your submission for the critique. Thank you!
This is sealion #3 I plan on doing all the sea lions probably one a day because that is all the time I have to do them. after doing all the reference lions I will do level 2 drawings from memory and imagination
When finished with the little sketch book on the right I will start doing my drawings in the new bigger sketch book
I feel like my lines are improving as I practice more consistently. This is my project for this lesson, I enjoyed it a lot.
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I like their structure. Good job!
Did one of the Seals today #1 that is all I could do with time I have. I want to draw more or even all the images provided for practice
Happy with what I got! Did 3 before and After watching the Demo. Demo Helped a lot with helping me understand the best way to tackle this project and I took a little bit more time sketching out some of the general shapes and action lines I would want to follow. One of the bigger issues I had on the first couple were I think I was too stiff and still focusing a bit too much on the accuracy rather than on the gesture and flow of the drawing.
This was a lot of fun, and I plan to keep trying this! My goal is gonna be to try and get away from the extra planning I'm doing and to get it all in one shot/while I'm getting the Gesture down. I also gotta focus more on the tension points, I think I neglected to put those in, even in my later ones.
I actually remember doing this project years ago before i stopped following the course due to procrastination and other commitments away from drawing. So this is my second shot at it since i'm doing the whole course again.
Unlike last time i'll try level 2 too tomorrow, i feel like i took way longer than expected for these ones. I still don't feel confident to try from imagination so i'll do a few more seals at level 1 first.
Overall i'm pretty pleased so far, especially the one at the top right. I struggled with the potato on the bottom left, it's pretty much foreshortened(?) and i'm not sure where the gesture is or how it would look like since all i see is a big blob. I tried basing it off the curve of the tail and just took it from there.
I couldn't seem to get into the zone today but i had to commit finishing this project. Honestly i felt these level one seals didn't seem to be as good as yesterday, can't exactly tell why though aside from the lines being a little more messy this time.
Level 2 is hard and got really frustrating especially when i was already dissatisfied with the earlier seals. The angle and perspective of how the seal would look is so hard to imagine, especially when they are twisting. At many points it started looking like i was drawing a ferret/weasel/walrus or some weasel-dinosaur creature (top-left). The bottom-left was most frustrating, i was thinking to have the back of the seal closest and it'll be twisting around to look back at the viewer; i can't figure out where the flippers would go or the shape of the body right between the head and the tail.
I do like some of the imagined seals though. By the time i was done i was actually pleased with some of them (top-middle and bottom-right). Glad i did it, these 2 were enough to put me in a better mood at the end of it :D
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These look awesome! I think that's a good solution for the bottom left one. The c curve for the bottom of the belly helps with the foreshortened roundness of the form. Nice job!
Some level 1. Took me a few attempts, but seems to get better.
will continue drawing some of these, but heading to the next lessons in the meantime.
Did a few after watching the demo. Going to move on to the next project, but really want to come back and do more. There's so many :)
here are a few sealions. I'm still doing very fluffy, hairy lines, i found positioning the flow lines acurately really hard, though i'm enjoying using them as a start point.
Hello I have been doing seals for a while and there sure is a progress. I did half of the images that were given and I will try to finish the other half before I start the rhythms project. The exercise seemed to be simple however I find it to be very helpful in the design of organic shapes despite its simplification. Hope I did good.
I'm going to practice this more. Some are OK in terms of gesture, others not so much.
I have the picture numbers from the download next to the seal/sea lion. Please offer critiques.
first drawing felt more like a warm-up. Really liked seeing the effects of different shapes for the second. The hardness of the rock floor contrasts with the softness of the seal through square and round shapes respectively.
Here are my gestures and references! This project was challenging but a great exercise to look at images differently, looking forward to improving as i feel I'm still looking too much at outlines and not shapes.
