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Tomek
Tomek
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Tomek
Attached are my attempts at level 2. I did the assignment digitally this time - I had to try each pose multiple times and it was easier to erase this way. I think I got them roughly correct. In number 2 I am not sure if we see the bottom plane. I also think something is wrong with number 10, but I am not sure how to adjust it.
Tomek
5mo
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Tomek
Here are some of my attempts. At the end I have decided to see if I can do a human, but I still need more practice before it will look good.
Phu Le
6mo
I love to see the Seal and Lobster one. You did draw quite an accurate of both and the nice-looking blizzard. In my experience, you don't need to focus too much on the small details at this stage, making it as simple as possible, by and by we will tackle those details later. I have no comment on the man, 'cause I am still bad at drawing human. Overall, you did draw well on these sketches, keep it up!
Tomek
Below are some of my more recent attempts. Not sure if the portraits are boxy enough.
Patrick Bosworth
Well done! The portraits feel nice and blocky, nice clean shapes. Keep it up!
Tomek
Hello, Here are my attempts at heads 1-3 (I plan to do the rest over the week). I had some trouble deciding where the top of the box should be - should it follow the forehead ond leave the top poking out, or go up to the top and leave a lot ampty space inside? I also couldn't decide in picture 3 if I was seeing the bottom plane or not.
@trrahul
This was hard but fun. Struggled a lot with 6, 8 and 9. I was drawing lines parallel to the 'eyebrow line' and the 'lip line' to find the box edges.
Tomek
11mo
Looks nice, especially number 3! In your drawing nr 2, it looks like the box is converging towards the viewer, not away. Some of the other examples dont look like boxes in perspective, but tapering boxes in perspective
julien Gaumet
Hi everyone ! After few attempts on paper, it felt so difficult I chose trying tracing over pictures first. Even like this it was quite a challenge. I did all the picture this way but posted only a few. As the picture number grew, I felt a little more confident. Please let me know if it feels right to you. On most picture, it was really difficult to find convergence between the lines because I was really influenced by parts on the face. When I switched my mind into “cross contour” mode, it helped in my opinion. Waiting for your opinion on these and I’ll try again on paper without pictures underneath ! Thank you guys for your help !
Tomek
11mo
Looks nice. Some things that catch my eye: 2. The centreline should be going through the middle of the mouth and the base of the nose - I think yours goes too much to the right at the bottom. 10. Line for bottom of the face is following the jawline instead of the box. I think there should be a vanishing point on the left, relatively close to the page. 18. It feels like the top plane is too small - not sure why. 19. I feel like bottom corner of the box is too low? 7. The centreline is not going through the centre (too far to the left at the brow line)
Tomek
My 2nd try, this time I have done it with a fineliner. Sadly, when going over pencil lines, I got confused what was in fron of what. I did some light cross hatching to try to take atention away from these mistakes. The lines are too wobbly. I get too focused on perspective that I slow down my strokes too much. I think the windowsill has the worst perspective errors here.
Johannes Schiehsl
Hey Tomek - Nice Design (i like the sink in the bed) ^^ ... there were a couple of lines that caught my eye - I noted them in the drawing. Little tip: if you want to find the middle of a converging plane - draw diagonals from corner to corner of that plane: it will give you the middle.
Pedro Branco
Does this count for lvl 2? I'll upload some more as the week goes on. I'm slowly warming up to this exercise. But I have to say, making stuff scale is so hard without reference. I'm aware that some of the chairs don't follow consistency as the ones closer to the viewer should always be bigger but by the time I'd notice I decided to just leave them be as I don't know how to properly scale them anyway. Heck the bust was one of the last things I included and that thing's way too big. By the time I drew it I was already aware that my objects weren't consistent in their size. The weird round thing is a poof and the robot man is inspired by Steven Zapata's Box Men exercise in his Beginner exercises course (check it out). This is inspired by my art classroom. Coming up with stuff to fill the room is taxing, not to mention with remembering how stuff that's there in the first place even looks. I refuse to use a ruler to help, am I being stupid? I know it's a tool and it's meant to be used but since I'm still learning it's better for my growth to try and ghost or do stuff by eye right? I can make it easy for myself and use these tools once I'm better is how I see it but do tell me if I'm being silly.
Tomek
1yr
I also refuse a ruler, because drawing straight lines is one of the things I want to learn to do, so you are not alone. I think in this piece you may be drawing with a bit of 2 point perspective? The horizontal lines on the chairs look like they are angled to upper right.
Tomek
Here is my 1st attempt. For lines far away from the vanishing point, I had some problem getting them t point to the right direction. I also had problem keeping the longesst lines straight. I'll try to make a better one tomorrow.
Dave Sakamoto
nice design on the rug!
loes roos
1yr
I like your overlap. And silly sink!
Tomek
Asked for help
Here is the 1st half of the poses. I like how some of them turned out. I struggled a bit with how to make the feet look OK, and I don't think I succeeded. I also should try to get a better line quality for these.
Tomek
1yr
Also, while not the goal of the exercise, I checked how well I got the proportions. Needs improvement, but at least I am getting torso to limbs ratio correct-ish. In pose 10 I got my drawing to be pretty accurate.
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