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David D
Even though these a boxes, I felt like when I got it right, it portrayed the feeling of the pose. Some more successful than others. I have a tendency to rotate planes towards the viewer and break the perspective illusion. I tried to be more cognizant of that in the later poses. Would love to hear how I could make these perspective more convincing! looking forward to including people in my drawings and I feel like this sort of construction is going to be important to making it correctly!
David D
8d
Watched the demo video and I think the most apt description of my assignment is “missed the forest for the trees” I think I got too distracted by the organic lines and missed the (now) glaring errors in the perspective boxes. Some are worse than others, but the demo was both helpful and illuminating. definitely going to redo some, if not all, of these.
David D
I drew the inside of a wood shop. Thought this was a great exercise; though I have a tendency to bend my non-convergent lines. I couldn’t determine a consistent direction, but it was like I had to convince my hand that horizontal was indeed horizontal. It got much better as I formed a habit to stare at a reference horizontal and ghost parallel to that line, similar to ghosting towards the vanishing point. As new habits are want to do, it was a conscious effort to make that happen. would love to hear if others have helpful practices that improve perspective drawing like this. I assume as we include more VP I’m our drawings, it’s going to be like 1 point perspective just harder to get right haha any other critiques would also be welcome. Still chipping away at line quality, but i think I’m starting to see glimpses of improvement!
David D
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I did this assignment in order and definitely felt like by pose 24 I had seen modest improvement in line quality (from increased confidence) and figure proportion. Many of these took more than one iteration to reach these results, but mileage doesn’t happen by one and done-s! One observation is that this might finally be the antidote to my biggest drawing challenger, as I see it. I tend to focus too small even during initial layout which has lead to wild proportions. These rhythm drawings, by the end, felt like a more natural proportion of a person instead of crazy inflatable tube men/women. Id love to hear the observations of more experience artists on what I should add as a main focus point now that proportions seem to be moving in the right direction. Thanks!
David D
26d
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David D
Some were more successful than others, had a lot of fun and was definitely something I had never thought about before while drawing. I feel like the most success was seen when most thoughtfully considering the dynamic shape design and “guiding the eye” of the viewer. Would love to hear what you think.. how successful was my attempt at the dynamic shape design? this assignment was a lot of fun, so I’m looking forward to the example videos and critiques to more deeply integrate this into my drawing practice!
David D
Starting to feel like progress! They aren’t perfect, but I’m happy to see both improvement and areas to improve. Would love to hear some feedback! I had a tough time focusing on shape design when distracted by inaccurate perspective. Broadening my focus area to see the drawing as a whole instead of just the portion of a line has been an on going deliberate adjustment as well… with varying degrees of success. I feel like I started to get a glimpse of how it should go when drawing the rooster.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice work! It gets easier with practice. Looks like you’re learning a lot here. Think “big to small” or “simple to complex”. Proportions should fall in more naturally this way. I like your ox the most. He’s got more dimension and the variable lineweight makes him a more interesting drawing. I also like the simplicity of the rooster. Thanks for sharing! Heres how I might tackle this assignment. Maybe this little demo can help you out with your future drawings- I like your drawings. Keep it up!
David D
For my master study, I tried to replicate explicitly the perspective and line quality used by Peter Han while drawing “hard-edge” items like this Morgan 3 Wheeler car. I somewhat fell down a rabbit hole trying to research and study my way to a beautiful drawing, but ultimately pencil had to meet paper, and I’ve done my best… time to move on and improve. I’ll come back to this when I have a little more “mileage” as Peter Han says. I feel like I’ve learned quite a bit even if the final product falls well short of Peter’s original work. Mostly what I’ve discovered is that what I had attributed to issues getting the proportion of a subject right was actually getting the perspective of a drawing consistent. I still didn’t fully solve that issue (as I’m sure you can tell), but ultimately I have found a fundamental skill that needs improvement. After the drawing basics, I think the perspective course with Marshall is next up for me! I am quite tempted to use a ruler to lay in my initial layout lines. I avoided this temptation as I think it’s important for me to be able to draw straight lines without one. Anyone else struggle with getting consistent perspective? I particularly struggle if the vanishing point is outside the paper area.
David D
Really enjoyed this assignment. The light and shadow feels like a more interesting line weight method to my eye - any critique or feedback on both drawings would be much appreciated!
David D
found this exercise very informative. Up until now I had attributed most of my drawing errors to not “seeing” clearly. Commanding the instrument needs practice as well!
David D
Thought this project was very informative for what I need to work on. Not super excited by the end result, but happy to be on the journey!
David D
By the end, felt like those boots were worn out by kicking my tail from start to finish. Haha felt like I learned a lot about how much my line quality needs some work. Any critique, advise, or pointers would be greatly appreciates!
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