Robo Bean Assignment Examples - Lean
Robo Bean Assignment Examples - Lean
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Robo Bean Assignment Examples - Lean

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Robo Bean Assignment Examples - Lean

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Stan Prokopenko
Examples of the Robo Bean Leaning.
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@rinivar
4mo
Hello, could you please give me some advice how to improve them? I think the main problem is proportions + wrong perspective. I sometimes find it hard to visualize the box behind all the distracting volumes of the muscles and skin. I try to focus on the visible landmarks, make a line where I see them, but then I struggle with connecting it to the other side (which is sometimes hidden behind those other volumes. numbers by the drawings are refference to the poses from the Gesture Reference Sampler nude.
Ralph
4mo
Putting into words what is off about some of the boxes would probably take quite a big wall of text since it would require explaining perspective again. I do not have the time to do a drawover, so I will try to make it brief. Numer 9-0 and maybe 3.0 look pretty good to me, but almost all other boxes ignore some rules of perspective. This lack of understanding how perspective works and how one of the boxes would have to be drawn in relation to the other, makes it feel like they are not connected properly in many cases. In general i would argue that you have some trouble with making the lines of your boxes converge "correctly" and understanding "3d" space (or rather the illusion of 3d space on a 2d piece of paper). Practicing this with distorted and twisted boxes is making things needlessly more difficult. In other words: You are focusing on landmarks and muscles before having understood perspective enough. Given that you still struggle with perspective you make focussing on landmakrs and anatomy even more difficult. Most of the boxes are also hardly rotated (mostly front facing with some rotation but no bending of 90° or anything) This further makes me feel like you need to work on understanding boxes in perspective more before tackling body shapes. Given that understanding boxes in perspective intuitively is pretty essential, I would recommend to try the 250 Box challenge over on https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes . It is pretty boring but it helped me doing boxes intuitively a lot. (read and follow the instructions though, especially the part about checking the convergence of your boxes after every page. If you first draw all the boxes and then check them, you learn a lot less than if you draw five boxes on one piece of paper, check and then implement what you learned on the next page) some words on particular boxes: 1.0 - the lower edge of the top box aligns with the upper back edge of the lower box. Therefor it looks like it is further back. The boxes would have to overlap to be correct. You have improved that in 1.1. 2.0 - The left and right side of the lower box are visible simultaneously, which would only be the case if the box got wider towards the back. In other words, the edges do not converge properly. 12.0 - The edges of the bottom box moving "away" from the viewer are parallel. No real convergence to one point. 15.9 - The top box has all of the edges going "away" from the viewer are also parallel. No real convergence, just some distortion. Whelp… turned into a wall of text anyways. I hope it wasn't too harsh and you can get something out of it. Keep it up.
Filippo Galli
3D vision just ain't my thing. I'm on my way there though. The rest of the examples will come later.
jean marc
5mo
dude i really like your robo bean, can you tell me where you downloaded the images?? haven't been on the app for 3 years. thank you
Filippo Galli
Getting better, but placement and proportions are still a no-go.
Makoto Yasumasa
Cool!
Gannon Beck
More robo beans.
Alexia BF
11mo
@sudsyartist
In the first example Stan shows in this sequence, I'm a little confused how we are seeing the front AND back planes of the torso. Is Stan just super exaggerating his upper box to have and intense curve?
Kevin
1yr
I also find it to be a tricky one - however, it makes sense in my opinion if we consider the central lines (front and back). For the back, we just see half of it, the part until the spine/central line (that we cannot see). Therefore, on your rectangle for the back, you should be able to see half of it. On the front, you can clearly see the central line at the pelvic region, but it then disappears because it is masked by the shoulders. Therefore, the top of your rectangle should cross above the front plane. So I thought it was exaggeration at first, but this is actually accurate. Hope that helps!
@slyx
1yr
1st attempt is watching the pose 2. is watching stan do it 3. is again just watching the pose. any critique is appreciated if u go over mine i'll gladly go over yours
Dwight
1yr
Hey slyx, nice work. I would only add that your proportions are a little off. I've attached what I would've done, which is yours plus a little extra gesture (I can't help myself). All I had in mind for proportions is that 1. the ribcage is longer than the pelvis, and 2. the pelvis is wider than the ribcage. Let me know if I don't make myself clear. - Dwight
@slyx
1yr
i'd really appreciate some feedback, this was quite challenging,,
Jenna Shinn
Robo Bean practice and draw along, could use some feedback. I get the towel twisting visually, but drawing and grasping it myself is more challenging. Anything else that is seen, please feel free to comment :)
Eveline Rupenko
Was drawing along with this video to understand a gesture in robo-bean better
Chris Martin
These are fun, and insightful, and tricky!
Zoungy Kligge
My sketches for the robo bean "lean" lesson. I thought it was pretty challenging!
@pmak22
2yr
I used the references in the video above and didn't watch the actual process. I started with red as a foundation sketch, then black for my final, then yellow to show the difference in general direction between what I watched in the video afterwards. The biggest thing I noticed was just how off I could be on some of the severity of the angles, effectively drawing a 15 degree angle when in reality the box leaned around 25 degrees. I also sometimes forgot that the start of a crease or fold typically started around the box itself not a random part of the mid section, but rather the lean of the top/bottom box causes and starts the crease.
faye zhang
2yr
I did the assignment examples on my own first and then followed along with Stan. I’m also unsure whether to indicate a top/bottom plane on some poses, but I found that overlaying Stan’s drawing over the reference first and then overlaying my drawing helped me understand where I misjudged the perspective of the forms.
Sandra Süsser
These were my very first Robo Bean exercises.
Daniel Wladika
Here are some of my leaned Robo Bean attempts
Lebogang Monaheng
These are great, you've a great job at capturing the motion of the figure.
Nathanael Tendam
stans exaggerated drawings make it hard to identify landmarks as some angles completely change because of the exaggeration.
@ryanhyndman738
Here are my Robo bean - lean sketches, let me know how I did. :)
Lebogang Monaheng
These sketches are really well done, I would suggest you try drawing from other reference images that Stan hasn't drawn from before because if you try to deconstruct other images of figures to the robo bean this will help you understand how to identify the blocks on your own.
William Horton
I'm having fun following through this lesson but I'm confused by one thing in Stan's finished examples. How I study these is that when the reference comes up, I pause the video, Draw it for myself, and then watch Stan's process and see what he does differently and how I can improve my own, pointing out the mistakes I made during my process. My confusion is that in some of these drawings, Stan will draw the "guts" connecting the pelvic and rib-cage prisms together, and sometimes he'll just leave the drawing as two floating rectangles. Is there any particular reason for it? It's just a minor thing that was bothering me through the tutorial.
@dwt12345
3yr
This section sure is tough compared to the previous ones! (Except the landmark section, I had no idea what was going on there ha), but I guess that means it's where the real improvement can take place. Here's some of my attempts, some of these are from the photos he used in the video, some are based off other reference. It's so hard comparing mine to his because his line quality is so amazing, ha. Mine are certainly a lot more messy than I'd like. The hardest part for me definitely feels like putting down the first shapes. Would it be wrong to just start with a normal bean and then turn it into boxes? Starting with the boxes from the beginning feels really hard. Any other feedback would be super appreciated. I'll probably spend a long while on this, cuz it seems like this is a really essential skill to practice.
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @dwt12345, I think you're of to a great start! I'll do my best to help you further: - I think you're making the box of the ribcage to short. Stan shows it being longer than the hip box. In many of these you got it the other way around - If you haven't already I really recommend checking out this video https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-hold-and-control-your-pencil/assignments Being able to draw long strokes from your shoulder is a great tool; the drawings come out faster and are more clean. - "Would it be wrong to just start with a normal bean and then turn it into boxes?" No, I think you can start with a bean if you feel like it helps. Then as you grow more confident you can go more directly towards the robo bean - I noticed that you haven't posted any assignments for the previous lessons. I strongly recommend doing that, especially with the gesture lesson, since the community can help you spot mistakes that you can't find on your own. I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
Peter Tinkler
This is my final robo bean study for now, as I've decided to move onto the next exercise. I'm certainly not saying I've mastered this, far from it, but I feel a need for a new challenge. I've enjoyed these exercises, but they are really tricky. Drawing 3-D boxes is harder than it looks sometimes.
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