Smithies
England
I love to draw - I mostly work digitally because I am so messy. I'm looking to level up my skills, and hope to get to a point where I can sell prints!
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Smithies
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4d
added comment inPractical Guide to Realistic Shading
Ooh I'm excited. I never really understood the core shadow and why it's darker and only in some places and this really cleared things up for me! Thanks
Smithies
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11d
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Attempted Ortho no.2. I made a loose grid and then made all my 3d views (is that the term?) from 1 ortho that I popped into my grid. I did end up colouring otherwise all my lines got very confusing and it was hard to spot errors. In the pancakes video they mentioned ‘tangencies’ where lines meet - I have found that where lines meet in the picture where they wouldn’t in 3d a real throw off for errors! In my next one I’m going to try and make more lines that won’t connect with others.
Made a slide to show my process. I’m pretty sure in hindsight my original ortho in perspective was off, which didn’t help, so I will try and be more exact in the early stages next time.
Smithies
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15d
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Are you trying to kill us Marshall?? The video made these look fun. I ran into a lot of problems, so submitting part 1 early to seek help from the community!
I tried to do it without using vanishing points - big mistake no.1. I retried the worst one with vanishing points, but none of my bits look like cubes! Is there an easy solution to this, or is it back to… draw 9999 boxes and they’ll start to look better?
I might do my next one using isometric angles just to try and make it look understandable, but feel like maybe that is just cheating..? Maybe I should try and do both.
See?! It looks so deceptively easy. I used the word “relaxing” when I started it 😆 Here are some tricks I found way too late:
- lay out the all encompassing container and divide it first. My proportions are off because I realized way too late many divisions are neat units and I can use diagonals and squares to divide.
- try working from the back towards the front of the viewer otherwise it might get difficult when everything in the front covers the back with lots of lines
- different colors help a lot keeping things situated
- drawing a vp grid very lightly on a loose light sketch at first from intuition slanting lines more and more on mindless setting can make things a lot easier because you’ll be matching and correcting these lines when you’re in the thick of it. I usually try both ways. If digital and the grid is accurate, I make the grid invisible then try on my own and switch it on to see how off I was.
all in all these look great for no VPs!
Ethyn
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1mo
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I've had some project deadlines recently, so I'm just now getting to the latest batch of assignments.
I'm still working through this exercise, but here's what I have so far!
When I first started trying this approach, my drawings felt a bit stiff. Something wasn't quite clicking.
So I thought I'd go back and restart by trying something simpler, to try and become more comfortable with the tools for this task.
I tried to build individual forms, and try some variations including:
• Height.
• Rotation.
• Curving.
• Tapering.
• Crossing the horizon line.
• Twisting.
• Two forms bumping / interlocking.
• Connecting two planes of different shapes.
I like to sketch in quite a scribbling manner, with slower phases also to try and carve out forms or details.
I also tend to build in layers as I move things around and close in on final decisions. (My kneaded eraser is seeing some work lately!)
To move onto a compositional stage of this exercise, I've started to try and fold this type of form building into this sketching process, in particular the slower phases.
Despite a rough start, I'm really enjoying this exercise, there's a lot to explore when playing with combinations.
I'm looking forward to cleaning up some sketches before moving to the second part of the assignment.
Thank you Philip for sharing this appraoch!
Smithies
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29d
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I found this gold dust this morning! I've just had a brief look but feel like it's related to the orthos assignment so will try and study it... Wanted to share in case any one else is into this kind of thing and hasn't found it yet!
https://www.traditionalanimation.com/mickey-mouse-model-sheets/
Okay…. I bit off way more than I could chew and got all in a muddle. But hey, it was fun. I think counting the non mistakes might be harder!
Smithies
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1mo
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Okay this one nearly killed me. I'm going to have another go at the back ortho because I tried to do lines to describe the shapes and then I realised afterwards I probably should have done cross contours to describe the forms... But I'd already used ink and it would have been a mess. I guess it's already a mess but nevermind!
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1mo
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Tried a mix of things, measured and intuitive. A bit embarrassed about getting lost and off centre in some places but at least we are beginning to feel it out more. The car is a 3d model, the deodorant is my own observing from real life and the violin is a mix of both. (I did these with a migraine so my apologies for the errors that shouldn’t exist. I’ll be cleaner from here on)
Smithies
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1mo
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I thought I'd warm up with something nice and easy... Like a couple of simple pieces of Duplo... This assignment is mostly just blowing my mind with how much I take these tiny simple objects for granted.
Started with the front back and side planes pencilling then fine lining those. Then I did the bottom plane thinking I'd get that over with - should have properly planned and pencilled in those circles before inking! Top plane was better planned and placed but I'm sure the proportions are probably off.
Good fun
