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Potato?

on: March 27, 2016, 06:03:47 pm
Well I started drawing potatoes a month ago or so and I just don't get them to work.
Any feedback is appreciated. Did I improve? Are some of these readable?
Do they looks potato-ish?

1. Potato


2. Potato


2. Potato's refrences:



3. Potato


4. Potato


4. Potato's Potato Bag
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Re: Potato?

Reply #1 on: March 27, 2016, 07:27:12 pm
Potato is not that easy to draw. I think it's rather hard to make it look like potato? Why?

Potato is a stone with lvl 2. Neither thing has got distinctive signs like tomato: juicy red ball with leaves on top of it. Potato is harder, because if You draw a rock, watcher knows it's a rock, but how to change a rock into vegetable?

Potatoes have different sizes, shapes and colours, so they can look differently. All of Your vegetables are good, maybe the second one look like a cheese, but nevermind. :P

To draw a potato that looks like a potato and the watcher knows it's a potato, I recommend to make background, surroundings to force watcher to think like this. For example, if You place Your potatoes on kitchen table, You know they are not rocks.
Second option is to make a lot of different potatoes and place them together. There is a danger of looking like a pile of stones, but it's not a problem, when You'd make really really different potatos.

I know this is making things the wrong way, but I wanted to say something about potatoes, because they're awesome.  ;D

And here's my potato. He's named Fred. :)

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Re: Potato?

Reply #2 on: March 27, 2016, 08:41:21 pm

« Last Edit: March 27, 2016, 08:55:00 pm by lachrymose »

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Re: Potato?

Reply #3 on: March 28, 2016, 04:17:36 am
Thank you Vertigo and lachrymose for making edits ^^
I'm gonna try to draw a new potato new weekend :D
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Re: Potato?

Reply #4 on: March 28, 2016, 07:00:27 pm
I really like how it is going, I was starting with making a lot of apples as well. It was like my 10th apple which resembled really well real one. Keep trying. Don't pillow shade it, #3 was your best go in my opinion. Have fun =)

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Re: Potato?

Reply #5 on: April 03, 2016, 04:14:42 pm
Wasn't able to work with lachrymose's edit yet dammit.
Well here a few "potatoes" I did



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Re: Potato?

Reply #6 on: April 03, 2016, 06:51:26 pm
Do you think it would be easier to draw a potato at a larger resolution? The way I think about it, is that you just cant capture the full details on the surface of a potato if you are drawing that small.

Also, nice potato lachrymose!

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Reply #7 on: April 12, 2016, 09:55:12 pm
The first one is just at a bigger resolution. It has very low contrast as I worked on weird configured monitor and haven't edited it as I don't really like it.

This one is made with lachrymoses edit as help. I think this one looks potato-y.
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Re: Potato?

Reply #8 on: April 13, 2016, 02:09:17 am
Second one there is good.