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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!
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.
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
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!
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3d
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!
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.
Drawing from imagination is something I haven't really done, so this one was kind of tough. I tried my best though.
I struggle to come up with things from my imagination. Im also not very experienced with animals. I dont know how to strengthen my creative imagination skills.
I definitely struggled with this one. I attempted a red fox using images I searched, as well as one I took of a fox statue in Japan. It was challenging to keep myself from using the reference directly and drawing from my imagination. I also struggled with trying to shift the expression while holding the scroll. I'll probably revisit this in the future.
Got inspired by the beetles thanks to my weekend trip to the zoom. So here you have it, one hardworking beetle who climbs the hill, and one whose natural habit is laying flat on the ground.
I struggle with drawing from imagination haha
Was still a bunch of fun and good practice!
The left image contains all drawings from the references, and the right one is only from imagination
The rounder shapes were my favourite to draw.
I tried pushing proportions here and there, but I feel like I could've been even bolder with it :)
Will definitely be keep coming back to this exercise!
Would love some feedback :D
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These are so much fun, great sketches! I love their crazy little eyes and awesome expressions, great job!
I added a little extra after drawing my reindeer because I was lost in time and I didn't want to let go of that moment so I kept sketching lol. But it added more character to my reindeer.
Here are my sketches as you can see I drew the first 2. References and then tried mixing it up a lil the second page is all imagination I particular like the top left one it was the 3rd one I drew and other then the front legs it feels like the measurements are good.
I also added butt cheeks on the 2 frogs cause it seemed funny and cute the top right frog pops embarrassed you can see his tooshy
Original idea was an orangutan in his mid 50s on solo vacation to Hawaii to get away from kids. Tried different body shapes and poses but the last drawing was the one! Or at least the one that resonated the most even tho it was different from the original idea I had for who this character was. I know the drawings aren’t clean but the main idea is there. After drawing that last iteration I felt a glow like “that’s it!”
Mr. Eagle. I'll probably come back to this assignment to do a more stylized version. It ended up just being another angle of the same thing I was drawing, I think.
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These are super fun. I hope you do come back and do some more stylized versions. I dig the direction you're taking them. One thing I find helps to stop just doing the same pose, is think "how does this character feel?" and "what are they doing?" even in little sketches like this, having an intent for your characters can pay off big as far as coming up with new and interesting poses and ideas.
Cheers!
The imagination is so bad lol 😂 took me a couple days to days to get over myself and post it. Be gentle on the critique. 😂
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Kudos for posting! I like his lil smile 😁 You made good use of overlap to show the tail going back in space. I like the expressiveness of this shark's face.
My critique is for your lines: you did a good job of using CSI lines in your observation drawings, I'd like to see more intentional design using CSI in your imagination drawing. It's difficult to do while you're multitasking so many other things, but slowing down and taking your time with your decsion making helps.
Hello this is the work i did for this assignment, at the beginning i was drawing and figuring out how to draw the head right, making this ellipses help me to understand better the shape of the head. Early sketches on paper and move to digital to work the body. To be honest im still having trouble working with csi. feedback welcomed
