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Sara
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4d
added comment inAssignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis
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Daniela
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oh i love the bridges you drew
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So the assignment, this time around, embodied all that I avoid drawing usually. I small little singular objects and fool myself that it's enough, but when faced with a whole scene I get overwhelmed. I am almost embarrassed to show these and to admit that it might be the first time doing a full scene, even though the art that I love most is the one that focuses on the background rather than the characters. Which means that I will have to focus on this assignment more than usual and push forward past the feeling of discomfort.
That being said, I am so pleasantly surprised to see that this course also has lessons like this, that force you to create and not just learn
The last one looks so cool and dynamic! Clouds dramatically disappearing towards the sun ✨
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Hi Marshall, Phil, and fellow course companions! I was in the middle of the assignment when a question came into my mind or more like, into my drawing. I was adding layers of pancakes at the top of the column, and as I kept piling them, they got closer and closer to the horizon line until they ended up crossing it! I don't think that's supposed to happen, they look kinda tilted in the background. Is this supposed to happen, or am I doing something wrong?
This is a bit above my ability to explain but I will try my best and I hope it'll be clear and correct
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So when you look at a round form from below there are 2 things to keep in mind. (1) the more towards you it is facing, the more open the circle will be. An (2) the further you go from the point you are watching, the more open the circles will be. Now if you look at diagram (3), first time around, the circles have more or less the same opening, making it seem as if you're looking at a symmetrical object. But the second time around, they get bigger faster at the top than they do at the bottom, making it seem as if the top one is bending away.
Going to your drawing, let's first look at red circles, since they are more circular. They are pretty much the same distance from the horizon line but the second one is much more open. It creates the problem from diagram (3).
Now the blue circle, It has the exact same issue, it is not that far from the horizon line, you would not be seeing such a big part of it, unless it were bending. Look at the circumferences you drew below, and try to maintain them.
Although overall your lines and curves were really nice and clean and honestly big probs to you for noticing that it looks like it bends, it's hard to be that observant with your own work. And these pancakes are really mailable and subjective so I'm not sure how precise one needs to be.
Daniela
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13d
I'm late to the plane party due but this was a journey. You find challenges where you expect it less I suppose.
So in order of events
1. I went for a simple blob approach first. I was simple and pleasant although visualizing a foreshortened blob is definitely a challenge
2. Did a blob and then boxed it. Now, what bothered me here was that the blob did show that the plane was thinner towards the back but the box did not. I tried to add a smaller box and connect them but it did not look right.
3. Plane from boxes, nice and clean and pleasant.
4. At this point it was bothering me that I couldn't visualize how something smaller at the back, with the back facing towards me, would look. So here I did some form explorations with 2 boxes. They aren't very well done but I did learn from them I think
5. This time I tried to do the plane from the back as foreshortened as I could. It's not very symmetrical because I was tired at this point, but I do think I mostly got it.
I expected to finish this homework fast but the more I drew this plane the more I felt like was missing. Honestly even now I feel like I could do much more but for today I am satisfied.
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15d
Well, thank you for catching me doing something right. For all the off-guesses, I apologize. For the accurate ones, I'll vacillate between pride and fear.
Maria Bygrove
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24d
Playing with the new perspective app - it's brilliant and so generous to provide so much reference for free!
Again and again I find that I struggle with getting the initial angles right. I tried to draw exactly what I saw on the screen and still my box cross ended up both rotated and tilted in relation to the reference. Apparently I'm rubbish at judging angles ;)
Also, while I was at it, I practiced some overlapping forms. I think I've go the hang of crossing cubes but spheres make my brain hurt :(
oh your post reminds me, maybe you have this site or don't need it, but I have it in my bookmarks and I look at it when I want to feel trippy https://eyes.training/intersections/
Daniela
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28d
Person that has never designed a non human character, that never drew a character turn around and never did multiple things together in a perspective grid, at 4pm: "Yeah this seem fast, I'll just do it before dinner how hard can it be"
Needless to say, I did not do it before dinner but I did manage to do it before bed!
In retrospect I should have maybe looked up some tutorials, I'm fairly happy with it for what it is tho
Anthony DeGennaro
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1mo
Here is my work on this. I struggle with perspective a lot and I was really hoping that this course would help me. I still am struggling with it all, I cant seem to draw a box correctly at all let alone rotate it. I have probably drawn thousands of boxes in an attempt to learn different aspects of it all. what do you suggest I do going forward? Thanks
So while this course is not there yet, it is important to mind your own feelings, if your personal goal and what would make you happy right now is to draw a box correctly, then I highly recommend watching some drawabox videos, maybe following the lessons there too. It's good to look at multiple sources and explanations for things either way, hearing teachers say it in different ways makes the image more complete
Example of drawabox tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGWbjDI6xQ&ab_channel=Uncomfortable
I hope I'm allowed to share this here and it's not disrespectful 🙏
Daniela
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1mo
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Took other people's idea of using a perfume bottle. This was definitely interesting, usually when I do object construction measurements, it feels like an unusual form of punishment. But while the blob method didn't have the most accurate results, it was surprisingly fun, it was a pleasure to do it.
I tried to not look back much to try to fix mistakes, kept it fairly quick, which also probably helped with my enjoyment
Overall the thing I struggle with is keeping the size of the initial box at least semi consistent.
I will also try to do a more complex object one of these day and see how it fares
Thank you for the lesson as usually
so I tried to do these more or less free hand, it's definitely not my proudest work but i said I'll do a more complex object and I did so at least I'm happy with that
Daniela
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1mo
my god did I go through an existential crisis during this, I would have a long speech about them but I don't think it's needed, the TLDR is that not practicing blobs hit me like a truck
ah and at the end i thought that all those contours looked like armor plating so I tried to do some of that but I'm not sure how relevant that actually was
