Project - Simplify from Observation

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Project - Simplify from Observation

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

31K

Assignments 5.4KLesson NotesDownloads 9

Use the reference photos in the downloads tab or go find your own reference and start drawing! Remember, this project is all about simplifying to clarify.

Make sure to keep these 3 things in mind:

Shapes - Draw your shapes with straight lines
Values - Use only 5 values. 2 in the shadow and 3 in the lights
Edges - Make every single edge sharp!

I'll publish my drawing demos of both levels next Tuesday so you can watch me go through the problem solving process. For a chance to be included in the critique videos, you must submit your drawing to the community by January 26th, 2023, so I can begin filming and producing the critique video.

Thomas Olsen

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Practicing the assignment for second time. This is version 4 of this pic.

Menriv

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11h

Project - Simplify from Observation Level 2

Thomas Olsen

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Did some adjustments after watching the critique video.. this is the final version (I think)

Jeffrey Powers

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First attempt, the proportions aren't great. I can watch the example and critique and do another version.

Deepak Verma

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Thomas Olsen

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The upper two was my assignment. And the bottom-right did I do after watching the demo.

Melanie Scearce

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Really nice job!

@d3lizabeth

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First was from before starting to watch the demo and realizing I really needed to slooow down!! Maybe the most important lesson I've learned so far :')

@sharonkush

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I don’t think the edges are sharp enough. Learned a lot though!

Melanie Scearce

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I think your edges are sharp, but you could simplify the value shapes a more to make them more readable. You did a very good job with the value range in this, and I like how you simplified the dark side of the face.

@osrour

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I didn't have a lot of room for the shadow

@arauh

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2 pears - first is pre watching video. 2nd is post. 2nd day drawing so really appreciate feedback. Also just had a regular mechanical pencil, so values are a little off.

Catherine

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I didn't have a pencil handy, but I was excited and wanted to take a stab at the first lesson right away, so I used a few pens instead. Now that I'm uploading the pictures, I realize I rotated the pear...

Thomas Olsen

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No. 1 here is the assignment I did, and the No. 2 is what I did after I had seen the demo and critique.

@sharonkush

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Skinny pear lol.

Carlos Pérez

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Here's my excerises . They were made on 30 minutes each and i kept the mindset of Shapes and Simplifying values.

@gibgab

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wanting to to do a few attempts... its harder than i thought to just do straight lines and 5 values. Maybe I will change the lighting till I really can see the different values? Glad to have started though!

@sosoph

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Hi to everyone in the course!! :) I feel like I had trouble simplifying the shapes, I kept wanting to add more lines. It was harder than expected to make uniform values. I used a 2B pencil and HB pencil, and my drawing was small. Maybe I will attempt it again, but larger and by adding a 2H pencil for the lighter values. It was really enjoyable (:

Melanie Scearce

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Great pear drawing! Looking forward to seeing the second attempt.

Fabio Gamba

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First attempt before Demo. Would greaty appreciate some feedback :)

Melanie Scearce

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Great idea to use the value scale on the side of your drawing. The pear looks awesome and you made good decisions with your shapes in the dark range. I think you could break up the straight line in the lighter range a bit to show the plane shifts in the lower half of the pear, and also give it a bit more visual interest. The portrait looks really nice as well, although I think you could simplify some of the shapes further, specifically the shapes that make up the facial features.

Fabio Gamba

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Tried the portrait as well. The proportion in the left part of the face is off. The shading was a lot harder than the pear as well.

Anthony Huynh

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Learned a lot from doing my first assignment, but I found it really challenging to keep to the 5 values just because I was using the one HB pencil and I'm not that used to drawing with pencil generally. This exercise in simplification got me thinking about how to apply it more broadly to drawing in general so I think it's going to be really useful. Anyway, onwards, to the next video!