Daniel Wood
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Aspiring artist who took a twenty year break after a childhood full of drawing.
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Daniel Wood
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Masters of Perspective:
Stanislav Poltavsky, and not just because he shares a name with Stan - The perspective in his concept art is phenomenal, although he often uses 3d models to help draw his mechanical concepts. (1-2)
Paul Heaston - I love the seemingly effortless freehand use of curvilinear perspective in his life sketches. (3)
John Liberto - I love the sense of scale and grandness from his effective use of perspective in renderings of huge mechs. (4-5)
My big picture goals are to be able to draw technical 3-point perspective renderings of complex structures like mechs or spaceships, and to be able to freehand believable perspective while drawing…. everything from imagination or reference.
My bonus goal is to understand the use of perspective as a storytelling tool, to evoke emotion, lead the eye, and mimic other tools used by filmmakers and graphic novelists.
David
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This was a lot harder than I expected. I really struggled with the dog's angles... and I'm not very happy with my results in general.
I've been doing shapes as a warmup. Also included examples of shapes both from imagination and from observation.
Nice work! From a fellow traveller: This is a tough exercise. I would recommend watching the video again and following along with Stan as he draws cubes - Then draw a bunch of cubes using that same three point perspective method; do the same with cylinders. THEN… drawing things from life, or turning animals into simple shapes should be easier. Like juggling… add one ball at a time!
Good lord these are beautifully drafted. What resources have you found helpful to improve your perspective skills to get this level of accuracy?
I’m am starting drawabox soon, as recommended on the Draftsmen podcast, but always looking for more options.
Keep up the great work (and maybe someone with more skill than me can find some actual critiques…)
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1yr
Nice! Keep filling pages!
Hey my dude! We are attempting the same reddit curriculum from RadioRunner! I am three weeks in to the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. It’s super inspiring to see someone so far along in the journey. Keep up the good work. Draw, draw, draw!
That is so awesome! How do you like the course? And how much time you spend daily or weekly?
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Daniel Wood
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These mannequins are awesome.
The first example is a follow-along with Stan.
The others were done before watching any examples. I included one page of my notes from this lesson because why not?
Draw, draw, draw!
Critiques and comments welcome.
