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Lin
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14h
added comment inProject - 4 Step Method
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This one Is going to be messy and full of errors because I wanted to try on my own first and do some problem solving before watching the critique video. I struggle with completing the ellipse and tilting it correctly vs the viewer still but I think I’m beginning to get a feel for it, and visualising it as a slice is helpful. I’ve tried some more finished ones too to see how it feels putting the basic feature planes on top, as well as a fully finished one. The alien girl with the curved face seen from below was a flop but the side profile did alright (an easier angle, but still).
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7h
Excellent work, these all look great!
Lin
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4d
Hitting 1.5 years in a few days!! Here is stuff going back in time chronologically vs one of my first figures and my first very frustrated head from imagination from day 1. (embarrassing to look back on but motivational to keep going) Line quality isn’t the best due to the neuro tremor but hopefully we’ll find a way around it as confidence builds.
Lin
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4d
After 1.3 year of drawing from level 0 and another two months of perspective practice I’m finally in a place to do these exercises!! I’m so happy because FDD&I was the first art book I got and I was too much of a newbie back to even draw a circle. I had to discover axes and convergences and such. Anyway, I’ve waited for this moment, it’s one of my favourite books. :D
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4d
These look great! Nicely done
Lux Lynn
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5d
Hello, I was looking to buy this course but I wanted to know if I should do Hampton's figure construction course first. What do you think?
I have both, both are indispensable but approach different things so you can do either in whichever order you prefer. I’m starting with heads simply because I find them as useful units of measurements and grounding, the confidence from them helps me with the figures.
Mon Barker
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10d
Are there situations/subject matter that you cannot draw as orthos? The hand example is a good one - since the fingers are not ever really in a parallel alignment in hand poses, there will always be parts within the hand that are oblique view…and therefore in perspective/three axes…? I guess the room with lots of objects rotated randomly to each other would be another example. How would you approach these when trying to understand the object before jumping into putting into perspective?
I was wondering that myself and am curious about the answer- but I think that’s why we simplify things to the same basic forms in neutral positions when we seek to understand anatomy or begin a construction.
Smithies
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10d
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Okay this one nearly killed me. I'm going to have another go at the back ortho because I tried to do lines to describe the shapes and then I realised afterwards I probably should have done cross contours to describe the forms... But I'd already used ink and it would have been a mess. I guess it's already a mess but nevermind!
Lin
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11d
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Tried a mix of things, measured and intuitive. A bit embarrassed about getting lost and off centre in some places but at least we are beginning to feel it out more. The car is a 3d model, the deodorant is my own observing from real life and the violin is a mix of both. (I did these with a migraine so my apologies for the errors that shouldn’t exist. I’ll be cleaner from here on)
It’s now long past the assignment deadline but still having fun with it and adding it to my warmup routine for now
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A quick tip for this melted pancake assignment:
One thing that really confuses me about this please, shouldn’t your blue and orange lines be converging towards the horizon lines since (1) the pancakes are flat, not turning, and the lines parallel to each other and (2) matching the ground plane? Right now each set of two lines, for each pancake, they sort of look just parallel to each other, not converging at all. Or is it only the horizontal lines that converge? (i know the horizontal ones do for sure)
