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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!
Here is my attempt on the penguin and VR girl.
Trying the arm next but had big problems even getting the basic lines down on the first attempt.
Critiques appreciated.
Alright finally done. I struggled with all of them honestly, taking multiple shots at the penguin and the hand. The VR girl wasn't really interesting to me so I left it on attempt 1. Would love some advice here. Am I even doing the project properly? What should I be focusing on here?
I think you did the project properly. The focus on this project is to be loose and to sketch with tapered strokes. It is not that important to be clean and precise with these sketches, this is more of an exercise in sketching and using searching and lost lines.
Here is my attempt. I tried to let go of my usual tendency to be strict with line art and be a little bit more loose and do searching lines (at great cost of accuracy of porportions however).
I think the hand was the hardest one, I did it digitally and for digital drawings I usually only try to make clean lines, therefore it was a little weird for me to do it loose and sketchy.
For some reason sketching feels much easier to do on paper than digitally, anyone know why? Any tips on having an easier time sketching digitally?
Goofed up the proportions on the girl also she is looking the wrong way kinda? I found the hand very hard, overall I like the penguin the most probably because it's the easiest and most forgiving shape.
Here are my first attempts, I really enjoyed the VR girl, she remembered me the characters in the comics of Teen Titans, in the magazines I was reading when I was a child.
I feel a bit embarrassed as it seems like everyone else is doing way better than me... but here are my attempts... feedback welcome!
I found the hand very difficult.
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You're doing great! Remember, these aren't finished drawings, but simply steps along the road to improvement. And it is a long road, that we will all hopefully get to travel the rest of our lives!
As far as feed back, I think doing lots of BIG full page doodles in your sketch book, and very lightly, will help. You seem to be going a little too hard, which is normal in the beginning. Long and loose lines are the key! Also, as you continue, keep thinking about shapes. Complex subjects like the hand can be broken down in to a number of shapes that make it a much easier drawing to approach.
Good work, and keep at it!
Everyone is their own worst critic! I think these look great. No tips or feedback or anything, I just like your drawings!
The penguin and VR girl came out alright. I can see that I struggle with placement and proportion. In addtion, I found it difficult to be consistent in making full, loose, and energetic lines, often catching myself making short, tentative searching lines.
The hand was difficult in the same ways, though it shows more there. I made some guesses about which interior contours were really necessary to include, which led to feeling doubt while drawing them. I should have given them the same care as the exterior contours. In retrospect, I think I should have drawn all of the interior contours as this assignment does not ask for simplification.
How do I draw a tapered stroke? The assignment calls for it, but the lesson doesn't say and 20 minutes of internet searching didn't yield an answer. I experimented on a separate paper but only managed to get better-than-a-complete-mess lines that are bolder in the middle, not tapered.
I don't know about my line quality. I tried to be quick and carefree about drawing this
My attempt! Critique is always appreciated. The hand was the most painful one, it was both the most complex and also the easiest to look off if I got anything wrong, so I did find myself at times not being loose enough.
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Nicely done. I think your hand came out pretty well. One thing I'm seeing there and in the penguin is sometimes you are making forms thicker or thinner than they should be. The pinkie for example is really thick in the hand, while the body of the penguin is a bit thin.
One trick to being looser is actually to go a little slower. It's easy to see some artists just sketching really quickly and think that is how being loose works, but you can be very loose and still slow. Build up your lines lightly and take a step back (or lean back) and look at what you've done. The number of times that alone has helped one of my drawings has to be 1000!
Again, nice work, and keep it up!
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Perfect example of staying loose! Great work 👍
I made this, 1st time doing digital. I added a wagon. Added: I modified the yoke a bit.
