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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis - Part 2

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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis - Part 2

Marshall Vandruff

Philip Dimitriadis

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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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ASSIGNMENTS

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!

Kelsey

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12d

This was fun. I like Phil's teaching style and his youtube videos have been super helpful to me. In one of my pencil sketches I tried to dig with the pancakes instead of stack to create the illusion of pools. This didn't turn out to be convincing, if anyone has thoughts on how I could make that read better please share!

Neill Burton

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12d

Making rocks out of pancakes. I think its too busy like Philip said it would be for beginners.

@g_meza

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15d

A couple of my pancake exercises.

Kelsey

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10d

Woaaaah these are cool. Love the hatching, can tell you put some time into these. Also the cracks in the ground on the first picture are great, hadn't thought to add an element like that!

Christopher G

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1mo

Part 2, worked off of my digital drawing from Part 1. This was just as fun as the the last part but I think I went overboard with drawing out all of the forms and planes.

Clément Douziech

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1mo

216th

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2mo

omg I feel so cool the dude was just a doodle and not intended as part of the assignment buuuut yk

Kevin Lin

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2mo

A fun approach to get things going. Here are some challenges I found when tackling this assignment. I hope to improve on these aspects moving forward. - keeping the perspective consistent in order to sell the illusion of the canyon. The inconsistency of the groupings needs work as well. - Carving inside the rocks was difficult to visualize especially when connecting different parts altogether. Adding cross contours was also challenging when you lose track of the rocks shape.

Jules Peppler

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2mo

Useful technique for feeling 3D!

@vaporsymphony

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3mo

Thanks for this assignment, I enjoyed it. It took me some time and a few attempts to relax and go with the flow but it was rewarding when it clicked.

@writedrawface

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5mo

Ronald Moss Jr

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6mo

In truth, I did not know where I was going with this while tackling the challenge. Tried to get a good mountain or canyon image in my head, then they became just...little and big rocks. Takes some time to get into the feeling of it. WHAT'S NEXT!?

Gloria Wickman

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7mo

Tackling this a second time with a focus on extrusions was fun. Like my other piece, compositionally this is a mess but I do feel like I did a better job of conveying depth going back into the distance this time.

M0GAKU

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7mo

Eugenia Foggenboggle

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7mo

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.

Melanie Scearce

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7mo

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!

@kotka

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8mo

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).

Daniele Olevano

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8mo

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

Thieum

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9mo

Maestro

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9mo

Debbie Dawson

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10mo

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.

Nikki De Backer

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10mo

I tried to make a cave based on the last drawing I submitted. I am quite happy with it!

Kelsey

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10d

I liked how you framed this, Nikki!