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Ihori Kobayashi
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This assignment was fun and a good opportunity to study master's paintings. I used 3 values in all three practices. Sorolla's painting was most difficult because the background colors confused me and made it difficult to categorize them into the three values.
Ihori Kobayashi
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This exercise was very difficult for me. I had to work very hard to ensure uniform value within the same square and differentiate adjacent squares with values, not lines.
Ihori Kobayashi
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3mo
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It is a challenging but fun exercise. For each image, I first looked at it for 2 minutes and drew from memory. Then, I looked at the image again for 2 minutes and drew from a different angle from memory (covering the first drawing with a sheet of paper). Finally, I looked at the 3D image and rotated it to check accuracy. Drawing rotated images applying the correct perspective was challenging, especially when trying to draw a foreshortened image.
Ihori Kobayashi
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4mo
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Level 2 practice. I tended to struggle with twisted shapes and showing depth (e.g. the body bending away).
Ihori Kobayashi
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4mo
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Both doghouse and complex building assignments were very challenging for me. The buildings I drew first several times did not look good. Some things (proportion, balance, rotation, perspective) were always off. For the complex building, I did not feel like I would ever get it right, so I was drawing a bunch of drafts on many sheets of scratch paper. When I unexpectedly drew a building that could work, it was drawn on water-damaged scratch paper.
Hi Ihori! Sometimes drawing on a piece of scrap paper helps to take the pressure off :) I’ve had the same happening!
Your row of buildings looks fun, bending and stretching. My pointers would be: 1) your left and middle building seem to have very different angles. For the left building it seems like I’m looking at it from a low level, looking up. For the middle building, it looks like I’m looking at it from a high level, looking down on it. 2) for the building on the right, your roof curves beautifully, but on the righthand side it looks like the walls stop all of a sudden, like it doesn’t follow the curve. I think you could solve this by applying the same curve to the bottom of your house and rounding it out. I’m no expert myself but I hope this helps!
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I tried to do Level 1 in the difficulty knob, but drawing an imaginary character was too difficult for me, and I ended up drawing a yoga pose out of my memory, which was more comfortable for me as I like yoga. But I tried to get out of my comfort zone by drawing this little guy trying to kick and punch for my second attempt to do the Level 1 practice. It was challenging to draw foreshortened limbs, but it was a fun exercise.
Ihori Kobayashi
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6mo
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Cross contour helped me think and see the reference object 3 dimensional and made me aware of plane changes. I had some difficulties figuring out plane changes in some parts, especially the flippers of sea lions.
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6mo
I agree with Robert, I really like your ginger. With the seals, some of the cross contours are a bit flat as they approach the edge of the form, in other words don't "wrap" like you demonstrated with the ginger. I would also encourage you to simplify as much as you can with this assignment so you can focus on the overall 3D form without getting caught up in the details of the wrinkles. Good luck :)
ginger looks great. Correct me if I am wrong but I think the edges of your cross contours of your seal (with the reference pic) seem to be wrong. The edge between belly and side plane looks lower on the reference than what you did. Otherwise these look lovely
Ihori Kobayashi
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6mo
As watching the demo and critique videos, I practiced more blobs. I am slowing improving in finding right box rotations, but it takes me several trial and errors before I got it right. So when finally I found the rotations and positions of the boxes, they are often shifted from original blobs.
Ihori Kobayashi
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7mo
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Drawing blobs helped figuring out rotations of boxes for me and made it fun! I struggled with the second picture in figuing out the rotation of the pelvis box.
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7mo
Looks good! For the second pose that you mentioned, her pelvis is actually tilted the other way, so that her right hip point is making contact with the ground instead of her left, how it is in your drawing.
Ihori Kobayashi
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7mo
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This assignment was difficult for me. I followed Stan's instructions, but the ellipses I drew always ended up looking warped.
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7mo
I think you have some good improvement between your first and most recent attempt. With the headlights in the first attempt, something that helps to think about is the simple version of the cylinder you are trying to draw, so a basic box shape. This helps orient as to which direction the extrusion would go to show the thickness in the right direction.
Aside from that, what may be giving the 'warped' look to the ellipses are the slight changes to the square guidelines. In the last attempt, the front wheel closest to us is slightly elongated vertically, while the front wheel furthest away from us is slightly elongated horizontally, and next to each other the small changes can cause it to appear distorted overall. Keeping an eye out for these incremental changes, double checking their alignment during the guideline phase, can help steer you closer -- keep at it!
