Stan Prokopenko
San Diego, CA
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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Larry
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added comment inHow to See Values Correctly
This very subject of relating values never stops amazing me. Will have to keep my eyes open...and occasionally squinted. 🙂 Nicely explained Stan.
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lol
ANX804U
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nooooooo..... another week wait for next video... sad life.... Wanted to ask like a major question, how do you see primary values or primary shapes when the subject is too complex, like nature and scenaries. like in a forest of 1000 trees and million leaves, where every tree is overlapping each other, every leaf is overlapping each other, every leaf has its own cast shadow on next leaf, how to even start putting any lines or shapes at that point. When you are drawing from reality that far tree really looks far and have a detail like its next close to you, if you dont measure, your lines start curving and if you measure it takes you 5 hours minimum just to lay in lines. Any help would be appreciated. BTW, i have learned so much again from this video, thanks.
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When drawing trees with millions of leaves, you draw the form that they create together, not individual leaves. It's like drawing hair. You don't draw individual strands, you draw the major form and then indicate a few key areas of texture and it looks like hair.
How to remove the distraction of individual leaves and see the major masses? SQUINT!
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Christina Unger
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Turns out I'm pretty bad at seeing boxes, and not really better at drawing them.
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You're doing a lot better than you're giving yourself credit for. These are really good!
Alain Rivest
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Here's my value scale. I used the suggested pencils (2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B) plus a Mars Lumograph Black 8B for the darker shades.
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Wonderful!
Lesulie
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19d
Asked for help
Level 1 assignment (will attempt lvl 2 later)
From top to botton:
graphite (2h/hb/2b/4b/6b)
ballpoint pen 0.7mm
fine liner 0.3mm
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You can definitely add several more layers to the darker values to extend your range, in both the graphite and ball point.
@omegaduck
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Here is my attempt !
I started with pencil (HB, 2B, 6B)
Then multiple fine liner (I messed up a bit the line weight in both cases)
Following with a single 0.2 fine liner
And I finally tried a 6 blinded value scale
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In all of them except the "single 0.2 pen", the jump from the darkest value to the next one down is too extreme, causing all your lightest values to be very similar.
Pedro Branco
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Here's my attempt:
I used a B and 3B Caran d'ache Technalo for the top scale and a range of 2B, 3B, 5B, 6B and 7B Caran d'ache Grafwood for the bottom scale. Paper is some low grade printer paper.
I feel like the top one came out all right as using just 2 pencils feels a bit easyer to me, but the bottom started getting weird around the 6b transitions. The 6b pencil felt a bit more "grainy" than the 5b and it was a bit hard to judge if I was doing too much or too little at a glance. Meanwhile the 7b was quite comfortable as its only language is dark.
Please tell me if there's something that I can improve so I can get on with doing that.
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I think you can add a few more layers of graphite on those darkest value to extend your range.
