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!

@tilbury

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I chose the capybara as my subject. Attached are my references and sketches. Final sketch is the Dancing Queen - sorry if some of my S and C curves are a little bit too thicc.

@hundredd

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I stumbled upon these little guys (tarsier) while looking for an animal to draw. I thought they had really funny faces so I decided to go with them. I felt like I drew the ears kinda wrong on that first full page sketch so I tried fixing them but I think the first one still has more "character". And curse their freakishly long fingers.

Ash

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I love these. You captured the expression perfectly. They're so weird and cute!

Bashayerfhs Bash

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K Town

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I really enjoyed creating the studies for an alligator but I didn’t have too many ideas on what to change. Alligators are cool looking!

Oya

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Drew a few characters

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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Super fun!

Ash

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I see you, Alastor-inspired hair!

@ljgrimm

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My son loves sloths.

Destiny Daniel

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I've never been one for drawing beetles

@geek432

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My imagination failed to imagine proper paws

Hussein Abdallah

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Originally did an octopus but after watching the critique i decided it wasnt enough and settled on doing the Great Blue Heron. Had a blast with this, what a majestic creature. The last page is the one where I drew from imagination.

Melanie Scearce

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Nice shapes 👍 Keep up the sketching!

Hussein Abdallah

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@irenemarceline

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Ok so I I started by trying out mice but the fur on the reference photos made it hard to identify edges so I quit and made caterpillars. it shows that I hadn’t warmed up lol Then I continued with lambs. the quality of my drawings fluctuate a lot idk why. By the end, I really enjoyed drawing the two jumping lambs. I did however start copying the images instead of creating my characters because I realized that maybe I’m not ready to play with proportions and features yet and need to work on my fundamentals first. All in all, it was fun and I got more confidence to just jump into it rather than staring at the paper or wasting time to search for the perfect references. Thank you!

Nickdulis

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11d

Using last bits of energy and finally some cool air to also do this assignment. I feel like I bit a lil too much. antlers in perspective are really hard and I probably should´ve figured out the lizards head in this angle before doing the final. Been winging it a bit but hey, its workable. Things to improve but could also have been worse. What do you think I should try to improve the most? What´s the weakest skill?

Larry

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11d

Great job. Nice and loose. They look great

Macarena

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11d

This was fun

Ash

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The Velvet Moon pic is so cool

Larry

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11d

Very nice!!! Keep drawing

Kim Solon

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12d

I'm shy, but this is mine hehe

Martha Muniz

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Super cute!! If you want to keep practicing with this one, try sketching out a couple of the reference photos, using photos from different angles and poses of the armadillos. They definitely have a very round construction, so thinking about a sphere can also help add dimensionality to your sketch. And sketching them from different angles helps gain a better understanding of how the arms/legs would move, so you can position and play around with different poses too :)

Przemek

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15d

@hannahfathi

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15d

This was definitely a challenge! I struggle with the perspective and proportions working from imagination! Three bears were studies and soccer bear was from imagination with inspiration from my son playing soccer! I definitely need more practice with this.