Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis - Part 2
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As a geologist by profession, this assignment was close to my heart. Some great tips by Philip in there and this was a neat exercise for practicing forms, designing on the fly and making things look 3D….lots of little learning clicks as you just draw. These are my final efforts inked over pencil with lots of erased poor designs and dead ends….lost the construction unfortunately. Some discussion in the video and notes on cracks, how they originate and how they are distributed….I’ll have to bite my tongue and spare you the details but to be honest, expert knowledge of subject matter kind of gets in the way…you get distracted by non-visually meaningful logic busts that would only matter to another boffin 😂
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In this lesson, we'll transform basic shapes into dynamic rock formations by extruding forms in perspective. Building on previous work, you'll learn how to pull and expand shapes to create complex structures. We cover techniques like using contour lines to visualize how forms wrap and turn in space, and how to avoid tangents for clearer drawings. You'll explore bending, twisting, and distorting shapes to form organic structures, and add realistic details like cracks and splits. The lesson also emphasizes balancing areas of detail with areas of rest to enhance your compositions and develop your ability to think in 3D.
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Give it a try! Try and replicate the process Phil demonstrated.
Start varying it up and extruding in different directions.
Whether you are advanced or a beginner, do your best to add in the cracks and details. It is getting you sensitive to how details conform to forms and we will develop it more and more as we go through the course.
Okay, go draw rocks.
Deadline - submit by Mar 05, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!
This was actually kind of hard. My brain wasn't quite sure how to handle it, I guess. Showed me that this is the sort of exercise I need to do like, every day in order to get comfortable with shapes and how to lay them out and stuff.
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It's a different way of thinking for sure but you're totally right, with practice it will become more natural. This turned out great!
The second time pancakes were a lot more fun but I also lost track of time and just wanted to do more and more. In the end, I could have been more brave with my modifications, for example do some overhangs. I made sure to try my new Copics (I'm sorry rendering is so meditative).
It was a useful exercise but too time consuming in traditional, so I decided to go digital even with a drawing tablet without screen that I don't like to use
Not brilliant but better than the last one. I will keep playing with this. It is trying to picture what they look like and drawing them. My mind and hand do not seem to work together. Although I do go over in my head after and understand what I’ve done wrong.
I tried to make a cave based on the last drawing I submitted. I am quite happy with it!
Here's my submission for this exercise! It really got away from me - after hours of work, I decided to submit it as-is. I don't know if it's something, but it sure isn't nothing, so I'll just have to be happy with what I made!
As unfocused as the final product ended up being, I enjoyed the puzzle of putting the forms together, of choosing where faces and vertices should go to avoid tangents and to give the structures some kind of gesture. I'd like to do this again with a little more purpose, maybe using reference so I can get some experience drawing real locations and objects.
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4mo
This one looks wild. Gives me Dr. Seuss vibes. The different colors is a nice touch. It separates the layers of structures and adds a bit more depth to the landscape.
I think you might be getting distracted by the geometry of the forms.
Consider the cross contour lines and how they might wrap around the forms. It might be easier if you soften the forms a little bit.
You can keep some straight lines. But maybe look for more curves next time.
Thanks for sharing. I really like this assignment.
I am racing through this course far too fast as I joined at the beginning of July and I am trying to catch up to live, but this course is amazing. This exercise has captured my imagination so here are a couple of simple attempts. Took a while to make the arches not look like perspective impossibilities!
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Very impressive!
I don't think I like this exercise as much as the other one in this section (forms) but I did my best.
Melted Pancakes 2. Yeah ignore the weird ass formations at the top. Didn't have the motivation to correct them anymore. Lovely exercise though :).
Blown away by how much appeal you managed to give a pile of rocks. I need to study your technique!
This was harder than I thought it would but I tend to overthink things. One particular problem that slowed me Down was, what happens when you start below the horizon and end above it when the pancakes are stacked… I had fun though.
I love this lesson, It solves so many of problems in environment design.😍 this baby took +30 hours.
