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Use the three reference images of clean line drawings and sketch them using simple loose lines. Don't try to match the cleanliness of these drawings. Instead, sketch them out with energetic, tapered strokes. Don't hesitate. Just practice moving your arm with confidence. If you draw some lines and then you realize that, Oh, shoot, I need to curve that more. Go ahead and just draw the new curve right over it. As you get more confident that you've found the shape, you can darken those lines and the lighter lines start to disappear. Focus on the big idea and the shapes the lines represent, rather than on each individual line.
For you, Level 2 monster trucks, I want you to start with this Level 1 project as a warmup, and then head over to the Learning to Sketch from Imagination project page for your instructions.
If you'd like to have a chance to be included in the upcoming critique videos, you must submit your drawings below by March 9th 2023.
Good luck and please have some fun!
These are my artworks please give me some tips. I just got procreate and my dad said that I might get a coarse for that after
I don’t want to share my attempts at the other 2 lol these are definitely beyond my ability since I could barely draw a straight line before this course and it feels like we’re jumping into the deep end pretty early on here. should I hold off on this course and find something more basic before picking it back up? I thought we would be learning basic shapes and using those to construct more complex forms.
But here is the penguin. I’ll watch the demo and the critiques and try all three of these again.
Im working on mine now. Its good to see others going through the same things and learning.
I like your line quality. It’s not easy; especially for me learning a new skill creating the muscle memory.
keep going and learning
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You could jump ahead to the next module, which covers building with simple shapes (https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/7-ways-simple-shapes-can-improve-your-drawings). A huge plus of self-directed courses is that you don't have to go in order, although the course was designed to be done in chronological order to build off of what you learn in the previous lessons. You could check out the shapes section, and then come back here. Or whatever order makes the most sense to you!
This was fun but also a struggle. I also have no idea if my approach was the correct one.
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Looks good. Your approach seems to be working well! One thing to look out for is going too hard on the lines from the beginning. Start loose and really light on the paper. It's okay to sketch in a few of these ghost lines, and only once you feel good about the line should you go heavier. This not only helps you control the flow of the picture, but gives it that great sketchy quality. Keep it up! Cheers!
I do most of my work at night, and I think the light is too harsh, the red comes out light. Grr. Whole lotta CSI. Had lots of fun with this one.
I misjudged the proportions, so I drew the hand and the penguin, too large and part of it got cut off by the paper. Sorry about that, but I’m excited for the feedback!
I felt the penguin went really well, just ran out of space at the bottom, and VR girl was fine, but the hand was a real struggle. Looking at the photo I can see the arm angle is wrong which threw me off.
I'm finding it harder to manage proportions when I focus on making fluid lines, but I'm practicing.
this one was a complicated one, while the vr girl was hard for me remember that its a sketch not a finished piece was really hard to get out of that mentality, but the hand was something else i had lots of issues drawing the hand specially because the proportions was really wack in some of my atempts but manage to get a result that i was pleased by. Any tips are welcomed
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That penguin is solid! I like your shapes in that one. Overall your line quality looks pretty good, but just keep an eye out for going over the same dark line multiple times to avoid making your lines look hairy. My suggestion is to try to simplify just a bit more while your sketching, which I think will help the line quality as well as the struggle with proportions that you mentioned. Look for long lines between each part of the subject and lay in those lines very lightly. You can make adjustments to the proportions using these simple shapes without erasing a lot/trying to erase dark lines and making a mess of your paper.
I traced over the image below with the very basic lines that I see in the VR girl. Those are a bit too simple for a finished version of this project, but it's a good starting point to get into slightly more detail. Hope this helps!
