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Ricen
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added comment inInside the Mind of a Concept Artist with Phil Dimitriadis
https://www.youtube.com/@PhilsDesignCorner
Sandra Salem
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16d
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By the way in another note. I would love to see a video explaining the differences and nuances, and maybe a little bit of history on the other projections that were mentioned: axonometric, oblique, parallel, isometric, etc. Are there any rules to use one over another? I assume these all relate to technical drawing for engineering, product design, and arquitecture...still I think it would be a good knowledge for a well round education on Perspective to have. And who better than Marshal to enlighten us with a piece of drafting history?
I found this diagram on Wikipedia. It is useful as a quick guide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_(drawing)
CC license - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphical_projection_comparison.png
Ricen
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22d
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For the life of me I couldn't keep from smudging the 2B/4B pencils with my triangle. Next time I may try my Isographs instead.
Tools used: T-square, 30/60 triangle, 2H, 2B, 4H, 4B, 0.3mm, 0.5mm mechanical pencils, electric eraser, and bond paper.
Ricen
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2mo
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You can get a ton of free high quality 3D asset scans from quixel.com to use for this memory game.
You'll need to make an unreal engine epic games account and snag them before 2025. Epic is going to put them behind a paywall after 2025 but if you "purchase" them now(for free) then you'll have them available to you forever.
This video shows you how to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-JZZA2wH4
There is also the base mesh:
https://www.thebasemesh.com/model-library
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2mo
Nice, thanks for the references!
Ricen
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3mo
I hope all the introductory videos on materials and stuff are dropped all upfront(or better yet, a bit early) so when October 1st comes we can all hit the ground running. That way we also aren't sitting around waiting for an *additional* week or three just to get get some perspective material and assignments.
Hey,I asked a similar question and got a reply from charlie(one of the moderators) so here's the question I asked and the reply I received:-
Question:Hello,i just bought the perspectice course from marshall and was wondering if there are any prerequisite tools that marshall wants us to buy(like:-ellipse guides,rulers,type of sketchbooks,traditional/digital etc...),please let me know if marshall talked about this somewhere or will the detailed instructions be given in the future when the course is about to start?
Reply from charlie:there's going to be a lesson early in the course that goes over that in detail, but if you're looking to purchase some stuff now, Marshall recommends mechanical pencils (0.7 lead if you press hard), paper (bond and tracing paper), kneaded eraser. He'll go over specific rulers so you may want to rulers but you won't need those right away so you can always wait.
Hope this helped you mate!
Mark Gallegos
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4mo
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.
Ricen
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3mo
I am not seeing what he means by "commas" for the lower lip.
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3mo
I think he means this:
