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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6h
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Yes please!
Smithies
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6h
Don't let perfection be your enemy! Just come up with a project for yourself you'd find fun and try and enjoy the process regardless of how it comes out. Allow yourself to be creatively free and don't worry if it looks ugly! Eg illustrate a cover for your favourite book or your favourite scene from a movie (from memory) and just go for it. You never have to show anyone if it's awful but you might surprise yourself :)
Michael Giff
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22h
I honestly don't know why I'm so terrible at following basic instructions but... here I am. I can't get the last line to go on it's vanishing point without moving all of the other lines. Can I make corrections without blowing the whole thing up? Or is close enough fine? (it does not feel fine.)
This happens to me all the time when using vps - I think it’s really hard to be accurate enough. I just mark in all the lines from the VP to the corners and if they don’t meet i find a midpoint and use that so both are wrong but it’s near enough for me.
If you’re just looking at your box without the VP constructions you’d think huh cool a perfect box in perspective. As a drawing it works. If you’re deisgning something where accuracy is life and death important, then I guess you’d redo it, but to me as a picture its good enough
Smithies
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10h
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The hexagon shape we did for the xyz episode gave me so much trouble I figured I’d have another go with it and project a hexagonal ortho. This was a serious struggle but I think i got there! I’m so proud haha.
@culhwch
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2d
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I’m uncertain about parts of this — my intuition told me to extend the line of the edge closest to the viewer straight up and use it to locate all the cap and dispenser parts which are within the square of the top-down view. Certain elements don’t look properly centered — I’m not sure whether my method is wrong or if my lines are just a bit inaccurate.
I think it looks really great! The bottle (mostly the base) does look a bit distorted though, is that due to the horizon line being v high up or the projection being close to the VP or something else? I don't know where we figure out that 60 degree angle from
sara keyes
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2d
I'm confused. Why do you start drawing a square first?
I'm not sure what exactly an assignment is.
Smithies
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1d
This cleared up a lot for me, thanks for the demo marshall. I followed along to make notes and used as many colours as I could find and now I'm going to repeat until it sticks
Smithies
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3d
Asked for help
Yaay, thank you so much! Loved this challenge and it's an extra treat to be one of the runner ups! And I could use all the extra practice with these models for the perspective course 😉 well done everyone! 😁
Blondie the good
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11d
Proportions are definitely a issue for me and also when the perspective is not that dramatic it's hard to stick to the grid.
@drawingdodo
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6d
Asked for help
Here are my three attempts. First two are level 1, and second one is level 2. I feel like I genuinely missed the ball on the level 2, because I feel like I wasted a lot of time blending shapes. I took rhythms into account when blending, but I feel like I lost control of some of the values. I also took some liberties with design, despite trying to capture the essence of the shapes.
Still, was a lot of fun, using a cast for this one was a great idea!
These look great! I think you've done a great job with the lighting on no. 2 - you can see it hitting the top very clearly. Possibly you could go darker with your shadow values in 1 and 3 to make it more dramatic (but that's just a preference thing). I think you've done a great job with the beard in particular for no 3 but some of the curves could be balanced out with some straights somewhere (in hindsight I did this too and really needed some straights to my curves when I did this one!) keep it up!
