Week 36 - Animal study

[narrow halo]

Welcome to Study groups!!
weekly study challenge to practice art fundamentals

for anyone who wants to join - here's reference!
Try to observe simple shapes, proportions and focus on drawing the reference accurately

WHEN POSTING INTO GALLERIES PLEASE ALWAYS ATTACH ORIGINAL REFERENCE WITH IT

general rules: use any technique, any medium and don't trace or over paint the reference!

this week study ends : <t:1765663200:f>

I will be here to help so feel free to ping me anytime
Have fun!
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absolutely perfect principles that helped be to be comfy drawing topics I've never draw before. Everything is simple shape and that's the only thing u need ✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_-DiAzYBc

creature design introduction, super helpful for understanding why we need real life studies (animals) to understand fantasy designs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984I6K79-x4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaFV8DV4qw0

in this study focus on real animal studies but feel free to add your creature design next to it

again feel free to work with quick gestures or rendered studies, up to u and your own time!
for example I love drawing my own cat:)

more examples of my super quick gestures, if u have pets draw them!!

[rough quartz]

ARE ALL ANIMALS ANOWED OMG YESS

Aa this is gonna be fun

[narrow halo]

yees have fun!!

[robust wraith]

I am going to be doing this all week, I love drawing animals

just started

[narrow halo]

I am also about to draw my cat again haha

[rough quartz]

YEASS IMMA DRAW SO MANY SHARKS AND MARIN ANIMALS and foxes cus i saw a fox on Tuesday in my backyard

[robust wraith]

Looks a little weird but i'm not sure how to fix it

[rough quartz]

Probably shoud have rendered Thea’s a bit more but it’s 2 am and I wanna sleep. Gonna draw more animals in the morning

I’ll fix the angle of the bonnet heads head in the morning

[maiden mauve]

Animals 🥶 🥶 🥶 🥶

[rough quartz]

Hehehhehehe I did some more

[signal patio]

ITS SO CUTE

[north garden]

I don’t know which looks better so I’m going to send both
I also don’t usually draw realistic animals so this is new for me

[rough quartz]

Thanks !!!!! I apeolutly love drawing animals

I need to push my values ….

[signal patio]

Tried drawing a cardinal I could have done better

[mystic crest]

Damn i gotta study for my exams, i hope I can find time for this study

[north garden]

I did one more and added a bow to the lion

[dreamy void]

Do dinosaurs count as animals

[pine belfry]

Tried mannequinizing the fox

Damn I tunnel visioned hard on this. None of the shapes are consistent

[lone marsh]

@narrow halo Is there anything you think I can improve on? I mostly free hand my art without really any sketches, so this is what I got after about 11 minutes

[pine belfry]

Ram

[rough quartz]

Spiny dog fish !!!! Artsurplise: Winston newton watercolors, fabracastell watercolor pencils, white acrylic, some digital painting on the bacround to fix some things. @narrow halo can u cretic this ?

[rancid vortex]

Decided to challenge myself total time 1hr

[torpid narwhal]

I'm done with the fox. Gonna try drawing the bear next. Any place for improvement? @narrow halo

[fresh valve]

yikes. i struggled with the bear

[snow escarp]

My first time drawing fur

[maiden mauve]

To get by with it

[icy depot]

How many hrs did u spend on the bear??