Project - Simple Animal Portraits

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Project - Simple Animal Portraits

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Deadline: Submit your assignments by 06/15/2023 for a chance to be featured in the next critique video!

Level 1:
Create animal portraits using basic shapes. Try to simplify the animal using 10 shapes or less. Keep your shapes organic and simple. Simple shapes could be stretched, bloated, indented, or curved to capture personality. Don't worry about perfect proportions. Instead, focus on creating cool, simple designs. No details or shading! Use the three reference photos I provided and find 5 to 10 more.

Level 2:
Take Level 1 assignment and push them further. Play with your basic shapes and size relationships to give the animals different personalities. Don't hesitate to experiment and look for additional references to understand your subject better. Now, go have fun!

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Gloria Wickman
It took awhile for me to work though things and overall I found the animals with fur a lot more difficult to simplify as I had a harder time of deciding how to break it down into more concrete shapes. I experiments some early on with doing both super geometric and organic shapes to get a feel for it. Now that I'm posting it I realized I should have played around with showing the animals from different angles but I guess I will handle that next time lol. Thanks for taking a look!
Mika Vermeulen
these are my first tries for the level 2 project. i will draw more of these with different animals. Critique always welcome!!!
Rachel Dawn Owens
These rock! I like the variations of the hippo designs.
CharmLotta
I tried level 2, now I see I should play more with the proportions, not only with shapes. I had problems with the side view - it was hard to forget about 3D thinking and identify simple shapes. I gave up with the fox this time, I have to come back to this exercise again sometime.
@fluffybuttss
I got very sick and it messed up my whole streak, but I’m finally back! It was INCREDIBLY difficult to narrow down the shapes for me.
Melanie Scearce
Welcome back! The shapes in your rooster are super cool.
Arthur Nesbitt
Took a lot longer between this and the line section than I had planned, but it's good to post in these classes again! I attempted level 2 with a couple of them but it was tougher than j expected lol
Melanie Scearce
Good clean lines in these drawings. I like the peacock. Nice work!
Monika Tafelska
Hi! This is my second attempt. I challenged myself to limit the drawing to just 5 shapes. It was really hard, but I think I did a good job, and I'm happy with the results. The colored versions are my way of breaking down the drawing into separate figures. At the same time, I wanted to study line quality (I know a chicken isn’t the best example, haha). I hope you like it! Any feedback is appreciated. ❤️
@stitch_
7d
@silver847
I think this went pretty well!
Aimee
12d
I feel like I did an okayish job at this. Some are before watching the demo and some after. I have some weak attempts but also some that I feel are a bit better. Would love any feedback if anyone has any thoughts!
Rachel Dawn Owens
I love the toucans!
@lucagray
16d
This was quite a fun exercise!
@lucagray
15d
Ok so after watching the critique video I decided to try again and also to give level 2 a try because I thought it might help me understand what the key shapes were. Sorry I know the photos of the drawings aren't good and I ran out of steam to darken the lines 😖 I really think this is a worthwhile exercise but I think I need to try and study what other people have done because it just doesn't feel like I'm quite getting it. Like the tiger looks like a bear or a dog no matter what I do 😅
Janou Baarda
This was great. Decided to finish the banana monkey in the left under. Thnx for the inspiration and good lesson Stan!
Agnieszka
16d
Love it
Jim H
17d
Those are really cool!
Melanie Scearce
Awesome characters. I really love the banana monkey and the chunky monkey.
Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
There go the level two... quite an intellectual challenge!
Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
And here are the proposed exercises. I have to admit that they have been difficult for me to execute.
Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
Hello, here are my first sketches
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice! You did a really great job keeping the lines loose. I really like the turtle. He’s got the most character I think.
Andrea Anaya
I tried to keep it simple. I haven't watched any of the demos yet, so probably I will try more of these after I do. Maybe I could exaggerate some of the shapes more?
Andrea Anaya
After watching the critique, I realized I went way too 3d with my first attempts. I gave it another go. I think I could have varied some of the shapes more. For example with the rooster I could have changed the shape of the beak more. They kind of all have the same-ish beak.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Haha that little dog looks great! Lots of character.
@sirmightymike
This is my first attempt. I found this really difficult to simplify the animals into shapes in my head. I think I had too much focus on accuracy of proportions which made me very hesitant. I am going to review some of the other submissions and then do some more drawings!
Rachel Dawn Owens
Looks like you’re getting it with the hippo!
Lost 247365
I know I went over limit on some of these but I couldn’t bring myself to leave them less finished than this. I even turned the gecko’s feet into circles to lower my shape count in exchange to listening to him telling me how he could save me money on my car insurance. For level 2 I did the roadrunner and couldn’t help but see him as some snooty aristocrat with his nose/beak high into the air. It was very hard to make him look blocky as opposed to triangular.
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are so great! Your drawings have a lot of character to them. It looks like you had fun with these. I really liked your roadrunner reference, so I tried my own hand it. I went about it a little differently than Proko, but I find that starting with the longest line helps measure the proportions before I get into the shapes. You did great! Keep it up!
Bee Murray
27d
Here is my first attempt!
Rachel Dawn Owens
It’s great! I love it!
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are fun!
@joel2311
29d
I've made some Level 1 and level 2 drawings after watching th livestream and both demos. Would love some feedback :)
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are so good! They have so much character. Keep making more! I especially love this guy.
@joel2311
29d
Sorry for the first two picture, here are better ones (hopefully)
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