Phoenix Baldwin
Orange County, CA
I used Proko to get into art school, then dropped out of art school to study independently! Now I'm a professional, but I'm always working to improve.
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Amu Noor
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3d
added comment inCritique - Collecting Masters
I have a question about this piece. In the video Marshall points out a vanishing point as the boxes forming the lozenge shape move away from us. I understood from this that our eyeline runs horizontally through that point. Why is it that the top plane of the chimney isn’t visible when it’s below the eyeline? I think I’m not understanding something
Thanks!
Phoenix Baldwin
3d
I noticed that too when I tried to study this piece! It seems like something that was chosen more for design than for correct perspective but I figured there was something I wasn't seeing.
Phoenix Baldwin
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3d
What a great collection everyone pooled together. Lots of names I knew, lots of names and pieces I've never seen and was stunned by! Great treasure, everyone! I love seeing what pieces have everyone raring to go!
To Marshall - I appreciate that none of these were considered "Bad" treasure, but that you were able to categorize them as things that would be difficult to learn perspective from, simple to learn perspective from, great to study for composition, for lenses, for distance, for playing with perspective, for overlap! I'm adjusting how I'm regarding my collected images, because there were a few that I had collected that, when studying, I disregarded and thought "why did I grab that? This is bad for Perspective." - Perhaps I just need to take a different angle with them. Also, I am ever impressed by how you re-incorporate student names and goals as you teach. Looking forward to seeing how everyone comes closer to those goals over the next year!
Pardon my gushing. I'm finishing up a project that has a deadline closing in, so I'm a little extra caffeinated...
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12h
Thank you Phoenix. I do make a point to "mentor from a distance" by attending to students' goals.
And I think you know that we are seeing more involvement here than in any class I've known!
Glad you're part of it.
Phoenix Baldwin
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6d
Marshall, this one video highlighted the problem I've run into in every single perspective course I've ever taken. The "subdividing" trick is among only a few things that stuck from my last perspective course. I learned how to identify one, two, three point perspective. But I never fully understood the tools I was being handed. Everything was so lost in the vocabulary and the tricks, without a clear grasp of the wider applications and with NO understanding of how to freehand any of it. Too rigid and disconnected from the rest of the drawing process to integrate those tools into my work....
Here I've two little practice sessions. On the left, I've done what worked for me with figure drawing by doing some timed studies from photos. Just to broaden my visual library and get better at understanding space from photos. On the right, two slower sketches attempting to exercise the perspective learning from imagination...
Phoenix Baldwin
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13d
Another great breakdown, Marshall! The composition of that round room is so graceful with the action of the staircase. I'm working to apply similar thinking to the images I've been collecting... doing so definitely has been showing me how underdeveloped my visual eye for Perspective is. I can identify, roughly, the vanishing point on clear one-point perspective images. But I get pretty lost in more complex scenes. I think continuing to break down images like this and doing sketches beside - rather than on top of! - the images, is helping in that!
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8d
Indeed, the complex scenes are complex! But I can see you working the muscle of simplifying, and yes — working alongside, rather than over, is better. It's taking responsibility for the moves, rather than letting the image control them.
What a great exercise, gonna try doing that myself as well but maybe with pen and paper. Thanks for sharing!
Phoenix Baldwin
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19d
This is a great little video to provoke thought in how we look at our little treasure troves! I love images like this, where the more you look, the more you see the artist's understanding of the space they were illustrating. People don't normally think of water when they think of Perspective study, but this is a fantastic example of the wider applications we'll have for the skills we're developing here. Thank you, Marsh!
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19d
The more you look... the more you see! We are on it, Phoenix!
Phoenix Baldwin
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21d
First, to get excited about the masters! I'll spend some time this week buried in my perspective treasure slides and doing some rough sketches from them. So excited to go on this perspective journey with everyone. :D
Phoenix Baldwin
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21d
Hello everyone! I'm Phoenix Baldwin. Normally I write Children's Books that don't require much Perspective expertise, but I have my heart set on being able to do more elaborate, exciting and convincing environments! I'll attach a bit of my long-held treasure hoard... I'll be taking most of my inspiration from Yana Toboso and Gustave Dore. I like the way the styles work together and I love these black and white compositions. Can't wait to learn from you once again, Marshall. This course has been long anticipated....... no pressure. :)
Phoenix Baldwin
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3mo
Can't wait to get to work!! Thank you so much for your dedication to making this course happen, Marshall!!!!
Phoenix Baldwin
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3yr
I do always draw better when I have Marshall in the background.... let's see how this goes haha. Love all the little animations going on too! Everyone's here - Marshall, horse, garbage truck...
Joseph Morrison
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Asked for help
Hi everyone this is my first post here, I’ve been working my way through the anatomy course slowly and posting on Facebook, but now will post my progress on here. I’ve had a go at doing a few buckets in space to represent the pelvic region before moving onto drawing the pelvis inside. I wanted to know if anybody can give me any constructive criticism on the perspectives or anything else wrong with the buckets. Thank you Joe.
Hi there Joseph! I want to start out by saying this is super solid work. Considering how hard ellipse perspective already is, this assignment also has the bucket taper, and that added wedge cut out makes this a challenge. That in mind, your first four in particular I see very little perspective errors with, they're really nicely executed.
I want to mention line hierarchy real quick - darker or thicker lines where they're describing the form and lighter, thinner lines for when you're drawing through or working out the perspective. That's just a little presentation note though, I know your main focus is the perspective.
I focused on #6 for perspective crit. The biggest issue I notice with it is that on the plane facing us, the crosshairs aren't quite placed correctly. The bottom edge of that plane is the edge closest to us, so the crosshair should be placed a little back from the halfway point, making it diminish as it goes away. I feel like that's better described in drawing, sorry if it's a bit confusingly worded! On that same plane, I made it a bit thinner, so that it followed the pattern of the farther two ellipses - the furthest one is the most 'open,' the middle one a bit less so, so I made the one closest to us thinner still. If you were going off reference for that one, feel free to post it! I feel like that'd help show what you're working from too.
Again, super solid work! I hope this helps!
