Shazad’s 100 Day Challenge: Russian Drawing Course

[Shazad Madon]

DAY 8

Tried to do two asignments this time.

Part 1:

[Shazad Madon]

Day 8 Part 2:

In this part the football gave me problems. I don’t know if its just me but I felt the values on the reference photo did not correspond to the ones in Illiyas video, though I shaded it the way Illiya did in his lesson.

So for the sphere I decided to do the assignment from what I saw instead.

For instance to me the apparent first dark light halftone that is on the bottom right of the terminator line was i the reference not that as it appeared much darker thatn the heaxagon on the left which is supposed to be the shadow area. The two hexagons on the extreme left that are supposed to have reflected light looked to me darker than the hexagons immediately to their right. Could someone who has done this excersise please enlighten me about the same? Is it just me or is it the reference? 🙂

I attach the reference photo in the next post.

[Joshua Jacobo]

Shazad, please don’t post NMA references in the forum. That’s paid content and this forum is free to the world.

 

As for the references, you’re right. It’s not possible for you to see exactly what Iliya sees because he is looking at the real world objects, and the reference photography no matter what will look different.

I recommend you stick to your reference and infer the differences. This applies to all other lessons as well! Keep up the good work!

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Joshua Jacobo.

[Shazad Madon]

@JoshuaJacobo Oops, very sorry, my bad! Wasn’t aware of this.

Thanks for clearing that out. That confirms I am not tone blind. 🙂

DAY 9:

Practiced terminator line using hatching:

[Shazad Madon]

After I went back to a part from the very beginning of the course, which was drawing straight lines. 🙂

Thereafter started construction of form still life.

 

 

[Joshua Jacobo]

These are really shaping up. your cylinders have improved a lot but still watch that they don’t “warp” or get distorted. Most of all, keep practicing!

[Shazad Madon]

Thanks Joshua. Almost an instant after I read your post regarding the cylinders, I noticed the front ellipse on the still life cylinder to be slightly distorted on the side moving away from us. Crazy!

[Shazad Madon]

DAY 10 :

[André Girão Tauffer]

Nice work, your shapes seem to be improving, and very nice shadow work! Regarding day 10 I’m under the impression that there’s something of with the up right corner of your cube.

[Shazad Madon]

@andregirao-tauffer Thank you, and you are right about the top right corner of the cube. I was a bit clumsy with the background shading and messed it up a bit. I tried correcting that now.

DAY 11: Started constructing planes of the head. Noticed I put very dark lines too soon, would like to take care of this in the future.

[Joshua Jacobo]

This is looking great!

[Shazad Madon]

@JoshuaJacobo Thank you!

Day 12: Planes of the head on stretched paper.

Not sure if its complete yet, but it marks the end of the fundamentals course! Fun times.

[Shazad Madon]

I post a better picture in daylight. I decided I will post the assignment the following morning if I finish them by night, as the pictures come very bad quality in the night light.

 

[André Girão Tauffer]

Yeah, way better with the daylight! And amazing planes work. I’m getting really intetested in this face planes study, maybe I’ll also take this course later on. Anyways, nice work with the face planes, it helped me understand a face a bit better

[Shazad Madon]

@andregirao-tauffer Thanks very much! Yes theres a lot to learn in the Russian course. I find it great.

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