Proko - Project - Learning to Sketch from Imagination

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Project - Learning to Sketch from Imagination

Stan Prokopenko

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You’ll learn the most important foundational concepts for drawing anything and soon you’ll be drawing pictures out of your imagination or from reference.

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Stan Prokopenko

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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Thanks for the classmate who uploaded the cat's photo to #14 days challenge#. Sorry I can't remember your name. Your cat photo is so funny, I couldn't help myself drawing a picture for him or her.

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ASSIGNMENTS

Pick an animal, a bug, or some kind of creature, and find several reference photos to use as inspiration to sketch a new character.

Don't copy the photos. Feel free to explore with proportions and exaggerate or simplify things to make it your own. Do multiple sketches to experiment and try different ideas.

Once you think you have a clear idea of a character, do one full page sketch. Even in this final sketch, try to use loose, confident lines and focus on the shapes of the character you have in mind. We're trying something new here with this project by starting to develop our ability to draw from imagination. So it might be a bit of a challenge, but don't sweat it.

Let's keep it loose and rough with our sketches and just focus on letting those creative juices flow. Don't focus on the cleanliness of your lines. We're sketching, and when you post your assignments, please include the photos you found and all your experimental sketches.

If you'd like to have a chance to be included in the upcoming critique videos, you must submit your drawings below by March 9th 2023.

And don't forget to have fun!

Balázs Tápai

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19h

I was always fascinated with rhinos and I really like smart murder misteries, especially if it is in a noir setting. So I made some study sketches of rhinos first and then drew a rather basic sketch of a PI rhino in a fedora and raincoat, smoking a cigar with hands in pockets.

aparkerr

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Red is the final one I could come up with. Hardest assignment yet, doesn't feel like I pushed the shapes enough and felt like my creativity is lacking. Defo need to try it with a new subject, it was fun to be challenged.

@neevey

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I want to get better and better at this, it was great fun

Ash

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aw I love your birbs expressions.

Stark

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Just wanted to attempt level 2 after finishing the level one assignment, still pretty new to drawing loose and even newer to drawing from imagination.

@bobash

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this is my dog

Melanie Scearce

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Very cute!

Daniel Prokudin

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10d

Decided to do a jumping spider in a top hat. I’d post the jumping spider references but I don’t want to trigger anyone with arachnophobia

Dimitris Davakis

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12d

Here is my gorila character. Unfortunately I couldn't resist the urge to render. Opps.....

@mattr

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13d

GORILLAAAA

Patrick Bosworth

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13d

Great sketches! Really fun shape exploration, I love your balance of straights and curves! Keep it up!

Moses Sunny

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13d

Life of Centepede

Melanie Scearce

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12d

Very charming!

@mis_74

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17d

The last one was my attempt at free hand drawing

Chirantan

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14d

Nice!

Hodiyah Green

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17d

Here are some orcas.

Chirantan

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14d

Nice!

Patryk Makosz

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17d

rat is a rat 😎

K. Williams

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20d

Before the demo, I think I was a little too concerned with getting a "good drawing" so I started over to try to get closer to what Stan wants us to practice. I think I'm struggling to translate what I'm seeing to what I'm drawing. I suspect that's a skill that comes with practice though!

JoJoel

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21d

Wong Colleen

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21d

@xolotl1973

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21d

More of a level 1 person, so a ton of reference sketches and then a frog-sumo sketch. I found this really difficult--I don't have the skills yet to draw what I want to draw, so I'm going to move on and come back to this maybe at the end of the course.

@chrisdzy

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20d

these look sick!

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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21d

Nice work. Those skills are coming along fine if you ask me! I encourage you to come back to this exercise often. It is sketching like this that will get you where you want to go. Keep at it!

Ashley Hall Romero

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23d

I consider myself a level 1 but I decided it's best to just try drawing from imagination. I didn't follow the instructions 100%, first I just sketched frogs then I tried these, but I just kinda had to practice first. Here is my frog magician hippie chilling at home and under the rain

@na_talie

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22d

Cool characters! 😎

@marwaelhakim

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25d

Umberto Sincovich

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25d

Rhino character studies done! I was going for cute and funny, but the result is a bit more serious than I expected. As always, any feedback is appreciated!

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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25d

Nice rhinos! There are lots of little tricks you will learn as you explore expression, both in faces and in body language. Study what you did and see if you can figure out what made it look serious? Then I challenge you to draw another rhino even MORE serious, exaggerating what you learned. That's a real fast track to mastering expression, because more than me or another teacher telling you how it works, you've figured it out yourself, and that will stick with you forever! Keep up the good work!

Simon McCaffery

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26d

Probably a little bit beyond my abilities yet but I really wanted to have a go at this. Pure imagination was not working so I settled for adjusting the pose a little as if we have just caught this pirate parrot in the middle of preening a wing feather. Not sure it came across at all and even this took a few attempts. The talons in particular nearly caused very manly tears until I just kind of gave up, but it's something to add to the study library. I don't know if it's just because birds are pretty simple shapes or not but I also struggled to give it any real interest, I wasn't skilled enough to go full cartoonish exaggeration, though I am pretty happy with how the head came out.