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@hansheide
I’ve tried to play with the simple illusion of a box being both suspended in air, and connected to the other blocks AT THE SAME TIME🤯🤯🤯! im sure this exact trick has been used numerous times before, but i've never seen it before, so i'm gonna present this as a creative solution. -i am not quite sure how to arrange the pictures, so if anyone could help me with that, that would be great.- i've tried to draw the outline of the shape, and it really shows that in isometric perspective, everything really is just that hexagon. The "final" sketch is meant to look somewhat like those classic drawings by M.C Escher, like in the way only used monotone. i would like any form of critique!
Vishal Hudge
I attempted to apply the consistent shading techniques I learned in the Basics Course to this assignment. Hope this is Ok.😁
@hansheide
16d
looks great, it feels really solid and heavy! but shouldn’t the top of the two leftmost letters be shaded in?
Andreas Kra
I took my turn at playing around with drawing—just making things up and taking some time to mess around in a childlike way. I hope it’s okay to post it here!
@hansheide
19d
i like how the you made the sky transition from day to night! i like how simle you’ve done it.
@hansheide
I tried to draw water in perspective, besides the fact that its a but messy, i think i drew it in too strong perspective. do anybody know how to fit 3 point perspective onto a normal sized piece of paper without it looking too extreme? i would also like any other critique!🙂👨‍🎨
Kriti Kaur
1mo
There is this technique.. I think maybe the Brewer method? Not sure. It allows you to create a perspective grid with VPs off the page, without the need to plotting them out! I am sure Marshall is going to cover it at some point during the course!
@jooga
1mo
You should place your vanishing points off the edge of the paper.
@wonderphantom
I am not an expert, so take my advice with a grain of salt. It might look too extreme, because the perspective lines are converging to fast or rather the vanishing points are too close to eachother.
@hansheide
think perspective goes hand in hand with storytelling. I remember as a child being sucked into these wonderful, most of them Danish, children’s books while my parents were reading them aloud to my brother and I, these books are also a big part of the reason I started drawing. That’s why I have chosen these masters of perspective as my inspiration. A quick summary of where each of the pictures are from: the monkey in the car is from a swedish children’s book artist, there’s two pictures of Jim Kay’s illustrated version of Harry Potter, a couple of Don Rosa’s Scrooge Mc Duck’s adventures, three pictures of the book “Valhalla”, witch is a comic about norse mythology, and then last an artist I think you should really notice. Jacob Martin Strid has made the classic children’s book, or it is at leat a classic in Denmark: (translated) “The incredible story of the giant pear” witch follows the main characters, a cat and an elephant, who woke up one day and noticed that a 20-foot pear, had grown in their backyard. They then carved it out, and turned it into a house-boat, and sailed it across the seven seas on an adventure to save their city from their city’s evil minister. A recent book he has just released, after 15 years of work, is called: “The fantastic bus” It is about a community of various animals, who lives in a city that is slowly becoming a big city. The son of a salamander, a little sled dog, has become ill and the doctor, a badger, doesn’t know what to do. The salamander mother suggests that it was because she is a reptile and her son is a mammal, and therefore she couldn’t keep him varm when he was younger, but the doctor quickly assures her that that isn’t the reason. One day the builders start tearing the animals’ houses down, to make room for sky scrapers! So the animals have a bunch of problems, and the way they will solve them, is to build a giant bus and drive 15.000km to a place with fields of magic flowers, that have a healing ability. The special thing about the book is that is is filled with these amazing illustrations. 
I would really like to be able to draw anything I want with accurate perspective, so that it looks believable, no matter how whimsical it may be. Two drawings where the perspective really impressed me, is the one with the blimp-thing, and the one with the bus engine. I am impressed with how he can draw, not just boxes and oblong spheres, but also those “combonations of round and square” shapes in correct perspective. And the engine just looks dead on, even though it’s such a complicated shape. It’s just a really good book, and I think you should buy it! Also the pear one. Ps: If I finish the course, will I be added to the proud list of Marshals former students??
@hansheide
@hansheide
2mo
I think perspective goes hand in hand with storytelling. I remember as a child being sucked into these wonderful, most of them Danish, children’s books while my parents were reading them aloud to my brother and I, these books are also a big part of the reason I started drawing. That’s why I have chosen these masters of perspective as my inspiration. A quick summary of where each of the pictures are from: the monkey in the car is from a swedish children’s book artist, there’s two pictures of Jim Kay’s illustrated version of Harry Potter, a couple of Don Rosa’s Scrooge Mc Duck’s adventures, three pictures of the book “Valhalla”, witch is a comic about norse mythology, and then last an artist I think you should really notice. Jacob Martin Strid has made the classic children’s book, or it is at leat a classic in Denmark: (translated) “The incredible story of the giant pear” witch follows the main characters, a cat and an elephant, who woke up one day and noticed that a 20-foot pear, had grown in their backyard. They then carved it out, and turned it into a house-boat, and sailed it across the seven seas on an adventure to save their city from their city’s evil minister. A recent book he has just released, after 15 years of work, is called: “The fantastic bus” It is about a community of various animals, who lives in a city that is slowly becoming a big city. The son of a salamander, a little sled dog, has become ill and the doctor, a badger, doesn’t know what to do. The salamander mother suggests that it was because she is a reptile and her son is a mammal, and therefore she couldn’t keep him varm when he was younger, but the doctor quickly assures her that that isn’t the reason. One day the builders start tearing the animals’ houses down, to make room for sky scrapers! So the animals have a bunch of problems, and the way they will solve them, is to build a giant bus and drive 15.000km to a place with fields of magic flowers, that have a healing ability. The special thing about the book is that is is filled with these amazing illustrations. 
I would really like to be able to draw anything I want with accurate perspective, so that it looks believable, no matter how whimsical it may be. Two drawings where the perspective really impressed me, is the one with the blimp-thing, and the one with the bus engine. I am impressed with how he can draw, not just boxes and oblong spheres, but also those “combonations of round and square” shapes in correct perspective. And the engine just looks dead on, even though it’s such a complicated shape. It’s just a really good book, and I think you should buy it! Also the pear one. Ps: If I finish the course, will I be added to the proud list of Marshals former students??
@rinivar
Hello! My name is Andrej and Im really looking forward to this course! So I thought I’d simply pick some of my favorite artists, post their work which includes interesting perspective and say what I like about them and what I would like to learn from them. But to be honest, identifiyng the "interesting perspective" part of it was harder than I thought. The thing is, a lot of art that I like doesnt rely on a bombastic and complex perspective. Most of it is about the emotion and vibe that characters give off through their body language, the stories they evoke by little details and how they come alive when drawn in different poses and from different angles. That being said, I would like to mention that Im a beginner. When trying to create such lively characters from imagination, I often struggle because I lack the natural ability to move and rotate forms in specific ways. Occasionally I may get some picture "right" by chance or with significant effort, but as soon as I try to draw the same characters in a different situation or from a different view, its all very inconsitent and just... weird. I think, that the lack of the ability to move and rotate forms is also making it harder for me to properly learn other concepts like proportions and anatomy. I feel like If I learn better perspective now, it will help me to learn those other concepts as well. So my main goal is to get an overal better understanding of forms and their movement in 3d space. And then, I can freely explore ideas and tell stories without being constantly slowed down. I chose these artists as a base for my perspective learning inspiration: - Frank Frazetta - Heinrich Kley - Ian McCaig
@hansheide
2mo
when i try to attach pictues, it just shows a grey square where the picture would've been. and the "attach" button is just grey, and i cant press on it, do you know what to do? it might just be something with my macbook.
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