Pixel
Germany
Hi :D
I'm a 26 year old artist from Germany. I prefer they/them pronouns, but anything is fine. I made it my goal to get good at perspective this year
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Unfortunately I didn't manage to do more this week, but I will definitely try to do more pages with this lesson as a basis. I found this very challenging, but very helpful at the same time.
I want to try the other floor plans and stretching it in different directions. This takes a lot of focus and is fun, but exhausting. I also want to draw the side and front views, because I still have trouble with keeping the proportions right in the construction.
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Aaaaaah I did not anticipate to get into the video, thank you so much :D
I really love the pancake approach. Timing myself has helped me to really focus on what I'm doing. The first attempt I did was not super complex, but did take the longest. After I had the system figured out, it was just a matter of getting repetition in, to see if I can get it more complex in a short amount of time and still draw through the form while keeping it readable.
This was so much more enjoyable than boxes and I think I'll keep coming back to these whenever I feel myself getting stiff. Thank you so much for the compliment. I see this course as a commitment to learning and you make the process really enjoyable, so thank you for that!
Hopefully I can keep up my pace and practicing schedule when life hits me sideways with business again.
Pixel
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12d
Did try to follow along :D
This was a great demo! I had no trouble doing this myself. And Marshall don't worry about not being super acurate all of the time. I bet you had to sit at an awkward angle, because of the camera, I can't imagine keeping my measurements and lines consistent when I can't really see what I'm doing, so this was impressive to pull off!
The proportions of my plane are a little different of course, because I don't have the acurate measurements of the model plane.
The only thing giving me trouble was trying to keep everything straight, because my T-square and paper were slipping a bit.
Oops I just noticed that I made a mistake with the back fin on the front view. It's taller than the other two
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I had a crazy busy week and when I finally found the time to do orthos, I managed to hurt my hand :(
This is all I have for now. I know the top view is a bit wobbly.
I hope to be able to do more later. This is so much harder then I thought it would be, but it's still a lot of fun to learn!
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I always thought these type of background landscape drawings were so difficult to do. I wouldn't even know were to start when looking at reference. But the pancake method makes this a WHOLE lot less taunting. I might do another one with the horizon line lower like @Pixel's first image. His submissions are pretty cool
This is looking absolutely great :D
Thank you for the compliment. The pancake method is very fun and I have learned a lot, by just playing with how I high I put the horizon line and how many forms I stack and how I make them look right, when they go back in space. I love the forms you have chosen here. The arch looks great and I really like the rocks on the left a lot.
I'm a they/them pronouns person though ;)
(just for the future)
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1mo
I found this very hard, but after a few failed attempts, I managed to do this. I don't understand how mechanical hinges and joints work, how to connect things in a way that makes sense and I don't know how to detail this stuff further (apart from the details I stole from Peter Han)
But I will try to do these from time to time throughout the year, because I want to get better at drawing mechanical stuff.
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Adding cracks and details was a lot of fun. I still need to work on getting the right ratios of complexity, but it's definitely going somewhere. It was really helpful to have the pancakes as a base, because drawing through the forms allows for thinking much more about how and where forms connect to each other.
I just realized while uploading that I made the foregrounds a bit too dark in some of these, so the lines get swallowed, I hope it's still readable regardless.
I might need to be a bit more brave and get a little more crazy with the amount of shapes I'm adding or subtracting from the forms. The next step would be adding some different types of organic forms I think. Like plant or animal life. If I manage to get around to it, I'll update these.
I also had some fun thinking about what would happen if gravity just stopped :D
You'd get floating rocks and lizards in a dersert
Pixel
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1mo
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I needed some colour in my life while studying :D
I also noticed that the letters start to get more distorted the farther away you get from the vanishing point
Pixel
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1mo
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I had a lot of fun with the pancakes, I might keep doing more of these :D
The first one took roughly an hour to figure out and get used to the shapes, 30 minutes seem to be the sweet spot for me when it comes to working on these. After that point I can start extruding to make the forms more rock like and complex.
I want to work on getting more interesting shapes, because I noticed that I tend to default to using the same basic forms. So that's something I'll keep in mind for the next few studies.
Thanks a lot, Marshall and Philip. The pancakes made studying perspective a lot less daunting for me.
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3mo
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I did try the Chinchillas first, because I knew I'd fail and thus motivate myself to try again with a much simpler form. So task failed successfully the first time around. The wine bottles turned out good. I did not attempt to make them cylindrical though. I think that would be the next step.
Some questions I'll keep in mind for the next few lessons are:
How do linesystems work?
How do I keep proportions accurate? (I think the answer lies in understanding linesystems)
This was surprisingly more difficult than I thought it would be, but also fun, which I didn't expect.