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Drawing Basics

Course by Stan Prokopenko
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146 Lessons so far
Skill Level
Beg. & Int.
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Duration
62h 35m so far
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COMMENTS
Stan Prokopenko
It’s here! The Draw Basics course is now available. A true beginners course aimed at teaching you core drawing fundamentals.
Newest
Mahdi
6d
It wasn't until I saw the demo that I realized how sad my drawing is. :D
Phil Toth
The pear drawing exercise … I seem to gravitate to rounding things anyway. But, here the stab at Level1
@arpan23
13d
Did lines project!! Level 1 are done without demo then watched level 1 demo and tried level 2... Reallllly happy with skeleton!! Any feedback is very much appreciated..
Agustin Gomez
this course is complementary to Digital Painting Fundamentals? and how I add it to a wish list
Noel R
21d
My attempt at the model picture. I have yet to watch the demos.
Tommy Pinedo
Nice attempt, the demo is definitly going to help out. I watched the demo maybe a few times to really understand whats going on. I look forward to your second attempt! :)
@arpan23
21d
Did once without 'demo and critique' then after watching... Did struggle in hair for second one and now it looks a wierd circle in her head but pushed through.. Definitely long way to go but here we start.... Any feedback is much appreciated.. Thank you!!
@georgiosnt
Crazy Aunt Betty
My second attempt.
@georgiosnt
Tommy Pinedo
This is a really nice looking pear with nice values but I am not sure if its the lighting or the values are a bit too light. It looks really good I just wish I can see it a bit better. :)
Risto Eskola
This was suprisingly hard. I had hard time finding the values! But enjoying the start and can’t wait to keep going😎
Richard Powell
Let’s learn to draw!!!!!!!!
@noak7
1mo
Can i use a watercolour pad, but i draw with graphite
@whatsthemoonmadeof
I think it's fine, as long as the texture doesn't bother you and you don't mind the extra cost
@noak7
1mo
The paper is thick enough, i like it but i use graphite
HAK24
1mo
The course was interesting and fun at the beginning, so what happened now??!!
Liam Gordon
Has it been getting progressively worse? I'm only on the basic shapes section.
@halo_lit
1mo
When you convince yourself you can justify the cost of this course only to find out you have to pay 20 % VAT upon adding it to your cart... Yeah, I don't think I can justify it after all. Maybe that's for the better.
Captain Online
Discount count: THANKYOU15 Will take of 15%, maybe that will make it worth it to you. I'm still on the edge. Just sucks to see that tax thrown on top of it, in my country tax is already included with listed prices so took my by surprise as well :/
αyατ нαмєɒ
I love drawing, but I cannot pay for the course
@whatsthemoonmadeof
Hi! Just started following the free version of the course, really excited to find out I could still make posts here. Although I don't have access to the project videos I've been trying my best to do them using the images in the free critique videos or just other images I find on the internet to put the theoretical stuff I've learned into practice. Here's what I've drawn so far and my commentary on it: 1. The pear! Drew it before I watched the critique video. 2. The face, had trouble with figuring out where the highlights in the hair should be, as well as just struggling with the values in general because of the red pencil. I also had trouble with simplifying the shapes where the lighter values of the face are, so those are a little more loose 3. Decided to have a go at sketching from imagination after I watched the demo, so I looked up images of toucans and drew them. 4. This one is also of toucans from reference, although I begin to try to exaggerate them a bit here 5. A page of toucans from imagination, trying to exaggerate and cartoonize them a bit 6. The full page sketch without shading 7. The final drawing. For having almost never drawn animals before I am pretty happy with how it turned out. 8. Drawn before watching the critique video (made the mistake of trying to copy it exactly lol) 9. Loose doodle of how I could try to push the gesture. Drawn after watching the critique video 10. My second attempt, after watching the critique video. Not happy with this one at all. Tried to push the gesture but I couldn't quite tell what I was supposed to push. I think it's a lot harder for me to push and exaggerate human shapes at the moment because of all the different limbs going in different directions. Was also getting increasingly frustrated which led to me rushing and my lines being bad. 11. Ended up doodling the penguin because it seemed easier and I needed to end the session on a better note lmao 12. After watching the video on habits for good line quality, and practicing the tips individually, I did a full page drawing, trying to practice all of them at once. Noticed I was struggling a lot with the S-curves, I ended up mostly separating them into multiple c-curves to be able to get them somewhat accurate. Also struggled a lot with ghosting. I mostly ended up ghosting just a little bit at the beginning of a line instead of actually following the full motion before drawing it. Finally, I also noticed that I struggle with getting a stroke that is properly tapered at the beginning and not just the end. Overall I'm pretty happy with the final drawing. 13. The reference picture for the previous drawing. Chose to draw something more cartoony so I could focus on the lines that are already clearly there instead of worrying about simplifying a realistic image. (art is by Sage Cotugno, I believe) 14. Drew cubes to test the different ways to use line weight! (don't know if my shading makes sense on any of these) This is the Hierarchy of Importance one. 15. The Depth and Form cube 16. The Light and Shadow cube. Any qritique (both positive and negative) on both the drawings themselves or my mindset/reasoning is of course heavily appreciated!! Also sorry for the incredibly long post xd
Liam Gordon
Your drawings of the birds are fluid. The line work is gestural and rhythmic. Great job
Brian Brotherston
@expensivetea
Hi! Started the course to work on my drawing skills- did the pear and the portrait so far. Left drawing is before the demo, right is while watching/copying the demo. I think I misunderstood part of the point of the assignment once I got to the portrait because I couldn't quite see the differences in shadow and didn't realize we could still use guidelines to help place features, so the face is super wonky. Also definitely got frustrated with it because of that lol. Planning on repeating the portrait assignment with a different image at some point to get more practice. Also these were both done with a 0.7 mm mechanical pencil- I have some better pencils I'll use in the future.
Tommy Pinedo
The face looks better on the second attempt for sure. I did the pear assignment about 4 times for more practice and I plan on doing different references too. I see improvement though! :D
Rj Thompson
I just drew the snail and I know it doesn't look good, but I see other people's drawings. And I don't see how y'all make the head look like that, this is the way I see it.
@osrour
2mo
Yo, my name is Oliver, I'm 15 years old and I am really excited to join this community
Pablo Torres
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