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Mark Gallegos
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3mo
added comment inAssignment - Perspective for Drawing Anything
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Being relatively new to drawing, I have devoted most of my time so far to figure and portrait drawing. While I am making progress with those skills, I find it challenging to place characters in believable environments. I feel some of the most compelling and inspiring pieces to me are drawn from interesting perspectives. A worm's eye view from the floor or a bird's eye view from above a scene seem much more compelling and dynamic than the typical standing view. It is much harder to find these kind of reference images, so drawing from imagination I feel is an important skill to bring these ideas to life. I am not necessarily trying to make my work look realistic, but I do want it to look believable.
Mark Gallegos
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4mo
This lesson is incredibly informative. Thank you for breaking down the process in such an understandable framework.
Mark Gallegos
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5mo
Thanks so much for the critiques! It definitely inspired me to continue practicing the 8-step method. I have a question about proportions when drawing a head at an extreme upward or downward angle. When drawing an extreme upward angle, the distance between the base of the nose and chin appears bigger than the distance between the base of the nose and the brow. The opposite seems to be true when it's an extreme downward angle. Also, the amount of underside of the brow that's visible varies a lot between upward and downward angles. Are there some rules-of-thumb that help map out these proportions?
This is due to perspective. Just like how you can divide planes into halves using the x-method(shown here: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/the-x-and-x-ray-tricks/ )
- there are methods to divide planes into any equal portions that you need.
Here is how you'd divide it by thirds:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160730031252/http://andreasaronsson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DivEquParts_03.png
The image is from this blog(recovered using web.archive, since the blog seems to have fallen off the internet). The blog shows how to divide planes all the way up to 1/27th if you are interested. https://web.archive.org/web/20211017170937/https://andreasaronsson.com/guides/perspective-drawing/divide-into-equal-parts/
But really, what you'd do for a "rule of thumb" is practice training your intuition a bit. Draw a plane, guess at where the thirds would be in perspective, then use this method to check how well you guessed. Do that enough and you'll start to get a feel for things. Honestly it doesn't have to be super accurate - just accurate enough.
If you are always drawing from observation then you'd just rely on the proportions you can see.
Mark Gallegos
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5mo
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Here are my submissions for this week’s assignment. I just started so all of these are first efforts. I think they could get better with a few more revisions but I tried to keep within the ten minute limit. I am eager to hear some expert feedback but I feel like I struggle with more extreme perspectives. The forms can sometimes get a little skewed or warped and I struggle to show the extremity of the perspective. Besides trial and error, are there any suggestions to help convey these dramatic perspectives?
Mark Gallegos
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5mo
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My first attempts construction using the four-step method. Any feedback is welcome!
