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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!
Still feel like I could push the proportions and exaggerate the shape more. Almost feels to minimalistic, could have some more detail perhaps, anyone have any suggestions?
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4d
very clean! if you wanted to add details in the future, you can make it look like a shark has history/story. The reference sharks have jagged patterns and scars.
Still need to loose up more. Maybe I should had a concrete character in mind before doing these but. What do you guys think?
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6d
This is awesome!! Great character. I find that it does help to have a bit of a story to guide you. Is this a body-builder gorilla? Maybe he's a gorilla that thinks he's super tough but he's actually scrawny. It doesn't have to be involved, just a few words to keep in mind as you design. That's just one way to do it; sometimes it's fun to explore visually. By laying down interesting shapes, you can discover the idea along the way. In that case, my advice would to be see how far you can push your shapes by exaggerating proportions and gesture. You have a very nice gesture here, but what happens if you push the curve even more? Or move the apex up or down? Having that story in your head as you work can supply ideas for how to exaggerate proportions or shapes, but it's not the only way. It's great if you exaggerate so much it starts to negatively affect the drawing, because you found the upper limit and can adjust from there.
This is really great work, overall I would say to just keep experimenting!
Great project. I really like the final result. Im sending my references, some studies I made and the sketch. I tried to make the sketch with bold and confident lines but in some points I still strugglying with chicken scrachs.
I won't lie, this has been the hardest exercise so far. I agree with what Stan says about the "From Imagination" cramps. It's very real and quite painful. I actually needed to take a whole day off to solve this problem because I tried something else with a seahorse first and just couldn't get it to work. I woke up the next day and had a better idea, of which this is the result. I studied horses and seahorses separately and then drew the last image wholly from imagination without looking at any references. I am well aware that the leg position of the running seahorse-horse does not reflect the proper biomechanical position of real running horses (I have never drawn horses before finishing this project). This project made me a lot more interested in studying running horses next! Not fully content with the lines either, I could have exaggerated more but was not sure where or how. I have decided to revisit this project and redraw the seahorse-horse from imagination at the end of the course, just for the fun of comparing the results.
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13d
If you're inspired to draw and study more, that's a huge success! I really enjoyed reading your thoughts here, particularly that you mentioned having a better idea when you spent some time away from it. Keep up the drawing, you're 100% on the right track!
I had the image in my head and how it looked, but I couldn't express it as well on paper.
i did the sketches on charcoal firts based on the images and then the red pencil ones
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21d
I've never seen a bear without fur before ö
I am very much a level 1 artist, but wanted to give the level 2 assignment a try. For my reference I picked a tarsier. I tried to be different enough from the references to challenge myself, but also do something achievable that would be fun. I like em, he is creepy and cute, the fingers/toes were difficult though.
First attempt, before watching the demo. Animal faces are so challenging :') But I'm pretty happy with how my imagined bear turned out!
Im a level 1 but decided to give a try.
I got multiple elephants as reference and then created an Elephant warrioe Lol.
Its very simple but as a beginner I was happy to draw from imagination!
This was fun!
Feel like I made this harder on myself than I had to :']. A good lesson in sticking with it, because I had zero confidence after my first from imagination sketch, but doing it over twice more got me to somewhere I'm pretty happy with.
Noticed I had a pretty hard time, harder than expected, to break it down into more simple 3d forms.
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27d
Great chicken drawings! That rooster drawing where he is bent over is a great example of using simplified shapes to represent anatomy. Great job with that one! It's a lot easier to imagine different poses when you have building blocks like circles and triangles. Carry that idea over into your imagined rooster drawing and use those simple forms to help you determine the shape of the roosters body. I drew one of the references provided to show how I would break it down into shapes. Hope you find it helpful!
