Assignment: Exercises
Assignment: Exercises
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Introduction to Figure Construction

Drawing Exercises

Assignment: Exercises

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Assignment: Exercises

967

Line Quality and Control Exercise:

Dedicate one page to practicing different types of lines, including ghosting techniques.

Experiment with striking lines through a central dot in a spoke wheel design, ensuring equal length and spacing.

Primitive Shapes Practice:

Allocate another page to understanding and practicing ellipses and spheres.

Explore exercises designed to improve familiarity with basic primitive shapes.

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Josh Drummond
Notes from the lessons and suggested exercises. This information is helping me draw through the Loomis books and other classes as well.
@aub
2mo
Fundamentals and form intersections assignment.
Corey Cooley
Nice 👌
Potion
2mo
Fun stuff!!!! I had a lot of fun time doing this and just shutting my brain off to do the basic volume practice!
Miles Tesch
I think chaining forms together will definitely become a good sketchbook exercise for me :)
Benjamin Pena
Fun exercise!
Ter L
6mo
Hello, I tried some form intersections. Boxes are easy enough, but anything rounded and my brain gets overloaded. I think the biggest challenge is that it's hard to check whether it's correct or not, as there are not many resources out there to compare with...
@susiesushi
hi, i have the same problem. i use this free 3d tool to check: https://app.spline.design/home it's super helpful!
Michael Hampton
Have you tried using the form intersection site? Those 3d models some time help. https://eyes.training/intersections/
Ter L
6mo
Marcio de Freitas
Unfortunately, all I could manage to do today were a couple pages of warm-ups and one more page of overlapping shapes. I had a go at sculpting/modifying/cutting from a square, but my brain just couldn't figure out how. I'll keep trying and see if I can post tomorrow as well
Michael Hampton
Great starts
@rockyrhodes
Rough go at the form intersections, gonna work harder on the line quality and the perspective on some of the lines.
Michael Hampton
Nice starts though.
sara keyes
7mo
Philip
7mo
That was quite a fun and tough exercise. Im going to practice form intersections regularly, good sketch book exercise
sara keyes
7mo
sara keyes
7mo
Thank you for helpful advice. Actually, I don't have confidence to draw circles, eclipses, and even straight lines. I need practice more to do.
Ricen
7mo
Nice job on the form intersections. It seems like you could still use some work on the ellipses. The endcaps on your cots and a few cylinders flatten a bit at the ends, like footballs. Try to take a more direct picture and get closer in next time. It is hard to really see details to give a critique. For that same reason, if this is A4 paper then I'd recommend drawing larger and just using more pages to get the same amount of practice.
@casildius
8mo
These are very messy, but I understand the underlying concepts. My question is however is separate. I don't wish to underplay the importance of these exercises or fundamentals, but I find myself wanting to move on to form construction, gesture and anatomy since I've done those to a good degree. What would be your advice? I know these are never really mastered but I also don't want to neglect them but I've found myself wanting to move to your lessons on form construction and more in-depth gesture lectures since I've watched some of your content on YouTube and have a few gesture drawings that I drew alongside your videos. If need be I can share some of those gesture drawings for you to gauge where I am and better advise me. Besides that, I love your method of teaching and looking forward to the rest of this course.
Michael Hampton
These are fine. Yes, I think it's important you follow your interests. Jump ahead to the next videos, you can always circle back to these underlying concepts if you see them lacking.
Mia le Roux
I am a very chaotic artist and i often do these practices when I have an artblock, but it is more important for me to draw consistently even if they are very rough! But I do enjoy the draftmanship exercises to help me warm up, and combining shapes have been very helpful before i start practicing gesture. I do know I need to slow down a lot of my practices, but it is a mental state thing.
@bumatehewok
Much harder when I am not just copying your decisions. I am not sure I fully get exploding yet. I get you are kind of taking a piece off, but most of the time it feels like I am just subtracting and drawing the shape twice. I think I didn't consider the outside plane a few times. There are probably better combinations of shapes that demonstrate the effect more.
Nia Kovalevski
Patrick Bosworth
These look awesome! Great work!
@gabemartini
i really liked these warmup exercises, but found myself switching between them instead keeping things separate. Sorry for being disorganised like this haha
Patrick Bosworth
Nice form intersections!!
Michael Hampton
These are great! And ya, I don't think you need to do them in order at all. I bounce around with them focusing on areas where my drawing needs development.
@amaka45
10mo
Actually enjoyed this assignment! It was a nice way to think about and grapple with perspective intuitively... Gonna continue studying form intersections as we go. Work cited: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1130755419021762558/
Michael Hampton
Nicely done!
Sita Rabeling
This is not my drawing, but I got this from this vid: Basic shapes intersection drawing time lapse video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaPG9YRGcE I find this useful for more practice.
Michael Hampton
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
@boltart48
10mo
I'm starting to try and intersect forms and so far its going somewhat well. I want to try more cylinder related form intersections since they're the most used for arms and legs. Will continue with more studies.
Adam Blake
10mo
Thank you for breaking it down to basics. I'm going to practice more.
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