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!

Hechmi K

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This is a little more than the expected output (i mixed a few different courses), but I wanted to share the progress on my snake. I am satisfied, but welcome feedback and am sure sometime in the future I will create yet an improved version!

Hechmi K

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@Martha Muniz Special thanks to you! Your feedback was what enabled this progress and motivation forward.

Guilherme Ferreira

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Decided to tackle this project even being a level 1 student and not having drawn from imagination in forever. I had an idea for a beetle warrior with a sledgehammer. I have a lot to improve, but it was A LOT of fun creating this little dude.

Victoria Poulton

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Wow! I love your beetle warrior, he looks like he would fit into Hollow Knight, and he’s very cute!

Melanie Scearce

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So cool! Keep up this kind of sketching while you're going through the course. Draw things that are fun to draw. It will serve you well, and improvement will come with the practice!

@thelovelytony

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Hiya :) Used some empty space from my sketchbook to draw some beetle references first. I was looking at all these from a distance to get the general shapes down without getting nitty gritty with details (which I probably subconsciously did anyway). Then drew from imagination on an empty page while occasionally looking back at the references. Lemme know what ya think!

Camille Varner Kolafa

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Looking at them from a distance is a good idea! I think you did great on each of the referenced sketches, and the one you did from imagination looks really nice. Good job with the proportions on that :)

@sophialia

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I chose a chicken and made some loose sketches based on photo references. The final pose is made up by me, I really tried to do it loose and simple.

Ben Kraske

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31m

You captured some great movement and energy in your sketches!

Cody Allan

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Photos by Thomas Jarrand (Left) and Tom Def (Right) from Unsplash For this project I sketched an Ibex from imagination. He's a bit dramatic. I practiced from reference a few times to get the general idea and shape, and then attempted this a few times also. I made the horns kind of jagged, and they aren't a true representation of fully matured Ibex horns as you can see in the photo. They also don't furrow their brows to look angry, and I made the beard a bit more commanding. This turned out better than I had any right to expect. My own critique is that I should have added some lines across the face to indicate the shape.. It looks a bit flat. On to the next one!

Fabio Bompani

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day gecko!

Ash

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cute!

@cchaney

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Bald Eagle drawing

Melanie Scearce

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Nice use of CSI lines in your bald eagle drawing!

@fnefearnoevil

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10d

My cuttlefish, did this really quick, all feedback welcome

@skibidivan

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12d

Feedback is appreciated 🙏

@birdartist

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12d

Drew a bee

@cantaloupe

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12d

you know what, hell yeah

@birdartist

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12d

Baron Hampton

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15d

Flumph at a bus stop.

Michał S

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17d

Toine Berntzen Ljungberg

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17d

This was great fun, when I did the var girl I got an inspiration and just had to mash up with a great comic book character and while I am changing her up why not add brush and canvas as well. well for my lvl 2 I wanted to do an Rhinocerous bug version of Rocksteady and decided to give him a guitar!

Marco Uggè

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18d

This is my first time trying to draw from imagination, and it was definitely a challenging project! I’m not really happy with the result, but I’m sure I’m going to learn a lot after watching the demo.

Cary

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18d

This was hard. I have not really done drawings from imagination.

@janabouma

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18d

Love the dangling frog!

@laurakent

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19d

My figuring out stages were horrendous. I had a hard time figuring out proportions with the folded arms and the eyes gave me some trouble but I’m happy with the result as a newbie with all this.