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Tried Game 1 and Game 2. I was surprised how much detail i immediately forgot from the pictures when drawing from memory, and when changing the angle it took me a long time on each one because it felt like i was slowly puzzling how each part would look from the different angle. Included screenshots of what i tried to memorize the original perspective angles i changed. Game 1 Memorize: Anvil, Wheelbarrow, Whistle Game 2 Change Angle: Hammer, Wrench, Fire Extinguisher Will be tried Game 3 tomorrow but wanted to submit what i had in case i dont make it for the critique deadline.
@silman
Level 1, will need to do level 2 tomorrow. Coming up with varied random box poses felt difficult; but i've done some early parts of the figure drawing course and this felt sort of like the bean but with boxes
@silman
Unfortunately not a lot of time for this project in the past week but This is what i came up with. Will try again over the next week
@silman
Not my best work but im not even sure where i went wrong. The follow-alongs i did while watching the video were decent but then doing it from imagination was.... bad.
@danaedg
5mo
They look great! I think they'll look even better if you go back in and clean up the outlines with a darker pencil. Some variation in line weight will help too :)
@silman
Busy week so i only got to do a little bit but wanted to post before the deadline. I will do more over th weekend (and try level 2). One fun thing i noticed is if you're doing it digitally you can do the outer contour on a different layer and then turn it off to see what it looks like with only the cross contours guiding the eyes sense of 3D.
Melanie Scearce
That's a great way to check your work! Your gingers are looking good. With the seal (and in general) these drawings could be more successful with fewer cross contour lines that are consciously placed. Next go around, see if you can use less cross contour lines while still maintaining the 3D form. Good luck!
Mike See
6mo
That is cool!
@silman
Asked for help
A few attempts with figures. blue is blob forms, red is roughs of the cubes in perspective, black is line art top row i forgot to use different layers, and the very last image i forgot to switch layers on the line art I started out pretty off, but i feel like i got better half way through. Lots to practice though... The roughs in red took me a while to figure out sometimes.
@lieseldraws
Great mileage. Also, I'm really digging the dynamic poses! Are these from a reference package?-
Rachel Dawn Owens
You may have had an easier time if you started with simpler blue blobs. All the blue lines you drew for the contours and gestures of the figure are extra noise for this assignment. It looks like you got the boxes right though. The final drawing look great to me. Next time, just don’t over complicate things at the beginning.
@silman
I feel like my hands are just too dumb to do what my brain knows... Trying on procreate which i;m not used to but it's not clicking on a fundamental level. I tried a basic toy car but moved to a robot after getting disappointed with how ugly the car was.... Still nothing is even on the robot, the cylinders don't look "real"
Martin M
8mo
I think you are on the right path. The robot clearly looks like a robot with shoulder joints and everything! "my hands are just too dumb to do what my brain knows" This is such a perfect example of discovering something and starting to practise it. The brain has taken a step forward but your muscle memory has to catch up now. Your brain is now able to judge the outcome and give your self critique (which is useful). You just need to practise more! I think the cylinders look real if you view them individually. But they might look off if compared to the rest of the objects around it. So try NOT to rush through the initial box phase and make sure that the box aligns correctly with the other boxes around it. Use the ruler if you have to. In Procreate you can draw a line and leave your pen on the tablet and hold it still. After a few sec the line will become straight as if drawn by a ruler. You can try drawing something by first making sure that the boxes are correct. Mark specific vanishing points on your canvas and draw all the lines straight to the corresponding vanishing points. You can later erase them or create a new layer on top of it. You can soon start skipping some steps of this tedious process once you build up muscle memory.
@silman
Wow what a hard project, so much room for me to improve on these. Spent an hour on hands 1 and 2, and 30 minutes on hand 3. Deciding on the correct box orientation to make the hand was pretty tricky and i ended up erasing many times.
@silman
Took me way longer than expected to just get basic boxes that looked right... found myself screwing up and erasing a lot so i had to start small thumbnails just to think about the orientation of the box in space
@silman
Can someone help me here with what to do when the box is not between the two vanishing points? Where do the lines on the other side vanish towards?
Martin M
10mo
This is only hinted at in the current videos, but likely will get covered in future videos. I will try to give an explanation anyway. Short answer is that you can't place an object outside it's vanishing points. The box shape gets so deformed that it breaks the 3D effect of your drawing. So for current exercises consider the vanishing points to be the edges that you can still draw objects on, but don't go past them. A bit of a longer hint for what's likely to come: Stan already showed an example of stacked books. These books got their own set of vanishing points because they were rotated compared to each other. Once we learn more about different objects having their own sets of vanishing points THEN you will be able to place an object outside of some vanishing points and "generate" new vanishing points for that specific object. What I mean by this is that currently we use two vanishing points for the entire drawing BUT in the future you will use vanishing points per object. Some objects will share vanishing points if they are aligned like a set of houses on a street. Some objects will have their own set of vanishing points because they are rotated compared to the houses like a car parked diagonally in front of the house. By that time you will likely think about your vanishing point placement for the entire scene AND decide if the next object you are about to draw will need its own set of vanishing points. This may sound like a lot of work to do for every object, but as Stan said: you will develop a feel for it and you can totally eyeball it OR you can go super mathematical if you want maximum precision for your technical illustration (likely would need perspective specific course for it)
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