AHR Studios Academy | John | Activity https://academy.ahrstudios.com/members/john-mcnicol1979/activity/ Activity feed for John. Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:54:27 +0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.5.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 df094866cdb0b08fb7ec855beb77bc91 John posted a new activity comment https://academy.ahrstudios.com/news-feed/p/1178/#acomment-1181 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:17:17 +0500 Hermann, in my limited experience, id probably say there isn’t enough contrast in values. It could be because your reference photo doesn’t contain enough shadows. I always either use a reference that has the darkest value and the lightest value so I can get good contrast which helps with depth. You could always alter the ref image, by editing…

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In reply to - Martin posted an update in the group Studio Community

What i can do better here guys?

]]> b8ca4904ca89fd061c8cda4e17c7a044 John posted a new activity comment https://academy.ahrstudios.com/news-feed/p/1152/#acomment-1175 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:50:26 +0500 This is my Taekwon-Do instructor’s daughter…given at the end of last Jan as a Christmas present. Took me several failed attempts haha

In reply to - John posted an update in the group Studio Community My first graphite portrait, drawn as a present. Completed 1year ago ]]> 94ca2e52416c19da731cbb115232c55d John posted a new activity comment https://academy.ahrstudios.com/news-feed/p/1153/#acomment-1168 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:47:15 +0500 @alihaiderrehman Thank you so much for your comments. To be honest, I had tried several times to do this portrait in graphite, only to fail multiple times with the white fur/hair. I used pastel pencils out of necessity more than anything else

In reply to - John posted an update in the group Studio Community My first pastel pencil portrait. Took about 3 weeks and this was not the first attempt haha ]]> d64a683d8b38fd6159ec0c4d5b4e772b John posted an update in the group Studio Community: This is my first ever graphite drawing....and to be […] https://academy.ahrstudios.com/news-feed/p/1154/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:14:02 +0500 This is my first ever graphite drawing….and to be honest, this was a bit of a fluke haha

]]> 8 714284ea84dd0bf029658f925a39fe7a John posted an update in the group Studio Community: My first pastel pencil portrait. Took about 3 weeks and […] https://academy.ahrstudios.com/news-feed/p/1153/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:12:48 +0500 My first pastel pencil portrait. Took about 3 weeks and this was not the first attempt haha

]]> 6 60abd9bcb2dbbcad7cf698500d90527a John posted an update in the group Studio Community: My first graphite portrait, drawn as a present. Completed 1year ago https://academy.ahrstudios.com/news-feed/p/1152/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:11:35 +0500 My first graphite portrait, drawn as a present. Completed 1year ago

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