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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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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!
I tried to set myself a bunch of challenges... easy (frog).. to medium (bat)... to hard (lions)... Frog wasn't too bad, nailing down the basic shapes was ok. For the bat, I tried to challenge myself and come up with a 'scene' - i.e. bat reaching for berries on a branch. I think the lines are smooth for both frog and bat for the most part and the creative idea was there. For the lions... I really lost the plot. Found them very hard funnily enough. It's fine to draw from observation, but found myself struggling with the anatomy in different poses (sketch looks more amateurish than the others). Oh well... all practice!
I decided to give my favourite seal a go! Harbour seal!
They are so fun to draw and have such lovely shapes!
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all of these are adorable!
This project was definitely a first for me, as an adult I suppose. I thought it was really interesting what Stan said about drawing from imagination being a skill in its own right, rather than a result of gaining technical drawing abilities.
I was planning on skipping this one, as a beginner, but I'm glad I did it. It was certainly a new muscle flexing for me, and I didn't even really push my references too much anyway.
I found this assignment fun. I'm guessing the goal was to reorient a single creator, but the idea got into my head to combine a few so I did that, hopefully not straying from the idea of the assignment too much.
I did this again, more trying to remember the main shapes. As I was doing my studies, is come back in afterwards and do a quick shape study of what I had just drawn to try to solidify the shapes in my head. Drawings labeled photo were from references, drawings labeled imagination were from imagination.
I realize my final is not terribly different than one of the references but I was trying to rotate him a bit to get a more 3/4 view.
Shrug
Redrew my waltorphant on my old surface 2 to practice two things
1) get a little feel for digital work
2) to follow the shape of the creature to fix the bad shell in the first attempt and how the shoulders didn't feel correctly placed.
But largely same angle. It was very difficult to get clean lines as the pen was not in line with the cursor (parallax effect). I've heard newer technology is much better with this.
Save the bees <3 but seriously it took me a minute to figure out how to position those eyes lol
Decided to do one of my favorite animals, the red wolf. Tried to incorporate some more clear rough lines.
Fun fact: We used to keep a pet chinchilla as kids. I was messing around with rodent-y potato shapes while blocking in this guy's fur. Tell me what you think!
Had loads of fun with this one!
First I sketched the references to help familiarise myself with my subject.
I loved the idea of a big fluffy ball with paws and tried to convey a cosy fluffy feeling.
I feel my lines are getting more confident and I love experimenting with the line weight and tapered stokes to convey ideas.
Not sure if my proportions are correct, but overall I am pleased with my efforts.
I used the references to learn how to draw a basic frog--I focused largely on the pacman and a smaller frog mostly. I then tried drawing without a reference and simplifying some of the anatomy (thinking of body parts more in terms of shapes so that I felt more comfortable drawing without a reference). I sketched out some initial ideas for a comic panel and posing frogs cross-legged. I'm going to continue on this froggy journey. Any feedback is welcome!🐸
This is all of my work trying to make a badger character. I spent a good majority of the time trying to get better at drawing badgers and getting the general form/vibe of them down. After that I tried getting better at drawing more humanoid figures while adding badger features to them, since the final drawing I wanted to make was supposed to be more or less humanoid. I got to practice expressions and posing a lot during this project, which I liked a lot since I want to get better at character design in particular, and badgers were just fun to draw in general. I probably would have drawn more, but I was fixated on trying to get the overall vibe I wanted/practicing drawing for around a month I think for this project, so I felt it was time to move on (although I will definitely revisit and refine some of the designs I was messing with more in the future).
Had a stab a this creating a Chameleon character. Did a few attempts at trying to understand the character. Found it quite difficult to understand the shape as it's so irregular and how it makes sense in 3D space. Trying to get the cranium in 3d space with either a circle or square shape was confusing. Also found it hard to work out how the head connects to the body.
Last attempt, tried to draw the chameleon holding a gun in a foreshortened pose (drew the gun wayyy to small originally) but not sure I got the shape right either (even if I used simple square blocks).
Drawing from Imagination: GECKO!
Hey all. Here is my attempt 1 for Level 2. I guess I missed the note on drawing from reference a skipped over that a bit quick! I'm happy with my searching lines, and overall mapping of the image. My final lines are still scratchy. Room to improve there.
All feedback welcome! Thanks
Here it is. My 2.5 year old daughter is into snails and dinosaurs, so I decided to combine them.
Took around 1h to do everything.
I actually like the mouth more on my second to last drawing.
