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  • July 29, 2019 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Hello from Canada #234644
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    Welcome to the site and community. 🙏🏼😁

    July 19, 2019 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Content in the Pipeline for 2019 #223862
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    Update:

    Introduction to Oil Painting with Charles Hu is now LIVE!

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    July 12, 2019 at 7:49 am in reply to: Content in the Pipeline for 2019 #218315
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    UPDATE: Contemporary Realism in Oils with Hollis Dunlap is now LIVE

    July 5, 2019 at 9:58 pm in reply to: Hello #213637
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    Welcome from California, Christa!

    July 1, 2019 at 9:31 am in reply to: Russian Drawing Course Portrait #210322
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    Nice work.

    You are you too heavy on the outer edges of the forms which is having a flattening effect on the work.

    Also for this exercise it would be good to see the hatching marks that Iliya teaches because it trains you to develop the form clearly. For example looking at the chest I can’t tell how the forms are moving in space.

    July 1, 2019 at 9:28 am in reply to: Reclining man #210313
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    Nice work.

    The length of the figure appears to be too long for the amount of foreshortening you are suggesting. We tend to make foreshortened forms more like how they appear in the standing figure. You can use a simple head (as it appears from your angle) stacking visual measurement to check this.

    July 1, 2019 at 9:26 am in reply to: Charcoal Portrait #210312
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    Nice work.

    We use lines as design elements (as you do nicely), but primarily they describe changes in 3d forms. When you are drawing these lines try to imagine them moving in a three dimensional environment, wrapping over and across 3d form and not just as flat marks.

    July 1, 2019 at 9:23 am in reply to: Vilppu Gesture Drawing #210299
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    Norman, nice work.

    As you do these gestures, try to be more sensitive to how the gesture plays against a vertical line (representing gravity). Especially in the legs, this will help give your figures more of a sense of balance and the illusion of reality.

    Also try to develop more sensitivity to angles and of widths in particular.

    Also work on correcting your heavy hand. Use soft pencils and train yourself to lay on very very lightly and build dark values over time. This will give you more control.

    July 1, 2019 at 9:19 am in reply to: Russian Portrait draw along with Iliya, crits very much welcome #210295
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    Nice work. Work on controlling your values more carefully. When things get this dark and messy the illusion can begin to break down. If you find yourself getting too dark everywhere you can always erase with a kneaded eraser and then draw back into the lightened mass.

    July 1, 2019 at 9:17 am in reply to: study dump, crits welcome #210294
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    Great to see your progress. Here are my suggestions:

     

    1. For now stick with a single color in your drawings.

    2. You have a heavy hand. Use a softer pencil and train yourself to lay down lines so lightly that only you can perceive them and then build towards your darker values.

    3. Your work is very line dominate. For now, try thinking of everything as forms that turn and try to make the form turn more with changes in value that with hard lines.

     

     

    July 1, 2019 at 9:12 am in reply to: Paintings I've done since doing NMA #210287
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    Nice work. Watch those widths. The cranium looks wide to me. Also keep in mind that those forehead planes and moving away as they head towards the hairline. That should come through in the painting. 👍🏼

    June 25, 2019 at 8:37 am in reply to: Portrait Drawing for Beginners | Part 2: The Lay-In #205672
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    Lise,

    Is your video player set to the highest HD quality?

    June 25, 2019 at 8:15 am in reply to: lecture on fantasy illustration #205655
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    Thanks for those suggestions. It never hurts to send messages or emails to artists you’d like to see on the site and suggest that they work with us. That has helped in the past. 👍🏼

    June 25, 2019 at 8:14 am in reply to: More Watercolour tuition #205652
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    Thanks for the feedback. We have one watercolor course with the late Mark Westermoe being edited and a new landscape watercolor course planned with an unannounced but fantastic watercolorist and we will continue to plan content in this medium.

    June 25, 2019 at 8:12 am in reply to: Website navigation /accessability and searching #205651
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    We are working on a change to the way lessons and courses are organized that should help.

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