Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis
Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis
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The Perspective Course

Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

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Drawing Organic Shapes with Depth and Perspective

  • Objective: Learn to draw organic shapes with depth and perspective.
  • Steps:
    1. Draw the First Type of Pancake:
      • Place a horizon line in the middle of the page.
      • Start by drawing an organic shape split by a middle line.
      • Freehand two isometric lines, intersect them, and create a rounded top like a roller coaster.
      • Draw the contours over the top to give the shape depth, using dotted lines for additional effect.
    2. Draw the Second Type of Shape:
      • Mimic the line from the first shape both above and below the horizon line.
      • Pay attention to the thinness of the ellipses as they approach the horizon.
      • Divide the shape with a line to see through it for better understanding.
    3. Practice Stacking Shapes:
      • Draw some shapes under and some over the horizon line.
      • Stack different shapes on top of each other to see how the perspective changes.
      • Always draw through the shape, which helps in understanding and visualizing the 3D aspect.
  • Timing:
    • Spend 20 to 30 minutes per page, or more if you are a beginner.
    • Try different speeds: set a timer for 5 to 10 minutes on some pages to challenge your pace.

Deadline - submit by Mar 05, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Newest
Negla Haykal
I have tried it and learned many things from this exercise. Not only about perspective but also about composition and understanding depth between the foreground, middle ground, and background. However, to be honest, I still struggle with arranging the composition properly. I will keep trying.
Rachel Dawn Owens
These forms are looking great! I don’t notice any major perspective issues and it sounds like you’re getting a lot out of this. If you would like a little tip for composition, here’s one: Find an ‘S’ path through the landscape. Guide the viewers eye and take them on a journey around your world. I know i butchered some of your lovely forms here, but I hope it gets the idea across.
Katie
3d
My attempts! :D I did it in pen, so, kinda unforgiving, but I had a lot of fun, haha. It's really hard to keep the principle of "squashing as it get closer to the horizon" in mind. But what a fabulous mental work out! >:D
J. Menriv
Melted Pancakes 1
Rachel Dawn Owens
This is a good one
Viacheslav [ki-Vi] Polianskii
Fast sketch of ideas without idea) pancakes + small blobs
Miqdad (Mick Dad) Ali
Here are my melted pancakes! this was perhaps one of the most fun assignments to get into so far, and I think that may have been because of how easy it feels to just get started. I really enjoyed just layering on different shapes and extruding them. a lot of the time it really did feel like I was pretending to model things in blender.
Dedee Anderson Ganda
For some reason a bot hid my post (?) Finally got the chance to get back to the course, First page is kinda messy, but on second attempt got better hang of it, tho I tend to go back to using basic forms such as boxes or cylinders instead of organic forms by the end of it
Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)
Looks perfect!
@maggieb
16d
I struggled with figuring out how much to squash the organic shapes as I got closer to the horizon line so I tried doing this exercise with straight lines and 2 vanishing points. I really enjoyed the process. In trying to cover the page, I found that sometimes I was outside the sphere where my vanishing points give a realistic result, but it gave me a better sense of how much the objects squashed. I hope in a future lesson Marshall will explain why things look wonky around the edges but I will wait patiently for that and enjoy the process in the meantime.
Philip Dimitriadis
This looks great! This is better than anything I ever did when I was younger! The vanishing points are really close and that creates a little bit of distortion, that's great when you're drawing interiors of room come on when you're drawing a wide angle shot pull those points further away. Good work!
Patrick Bosworth
Excellent work adapting the assignment to your comfort level. This is looking really good!
Shayan Shahbazi
at first I was not so sure but then I wasn't sure at all. however this is a really fun warming up and I really enjoy them. hope this is correct.
Shefali Garg
Great exercise. Will have to do lot more of these to get my head around how the horizon line changes perspective. Here are my three submission last of them is done digitally.
Jesse McNaughton
What really helped me was learning to draw cylinders through Drawabox they do a great job explaining how planes shift as your perspective gets closer/further from the center. idk if its cool name dropping Drawabox here guess ill find out :P
Moka
18d
This is what I have done so far but I want to spend more time on these in the future. Thank you Phil for this great exercise!
Ayesha Mahgul
Actually found it quite difficult, it got better with speed. i know it contains lot of mistakes, still wanted to share. Plan to spend more time doing it
Rachel Dawn Owens
Perspective drawing is always a slow process. It looks like you’re off to a great start with this assignment. It will get easier with practice.
Ethyn
18d
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!
@lwel
19d
I wish I could've done more, but I had different priorities so going thorugh proko content went on the wayside. I still made some time to do these 30 minutes for a few days hopefully in time for the deadline.
Angelica
19d
Melanie Scearce
Love the sea monster!
Michelle Johnson
Here are my attempts at the exercises. I'm happy to get some feedback on these.
Rachel Dawn Owens
All these 3d blobby forms look excellent!
@lemonmerchant
Very enjoyable assignment!
Sandra Salem
I got carried away. I think this is the most fun I had with an exercise ever. The melted pancake approach really invites me to be whimsical and exploratory with composition and space design. I am looking forward to my third attempt. I drafted the first design inside Krita, then moved to Photoshop to clean up the lines. Then of course played with colors because...why not?
Michelle Johnson
Very Looney Tunes, which I like.
Jeremy Johnson
Caleb
27d
Drawing on the ceiling was a challenge for me because I didn't want to flip the paper around to draw it. I also kept confusing my eyes every time I tried dividing the pancakes up.
Minqi He
27d
pancake
Carlos Javier Roo Soto
Great! I'm hungry.
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