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Alright, now that you've spent some time on your 1-point perspective rooms, let me show you how I'd approach this project. I'll also give you some handy tips to help guide you along the way.
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@karma_86
2mo
I've tried to draw a dinner, the grid was helpful but I didn't calculated the spaces very well...
Jack H
3mo
The grid was a helpful way to help me get the proper angles, but apparently my grid borders were skewed...haha. But it was still a useful tool to pick up!
@lauralana
4mo
The demo helped a lot! I first tried the subway and liked it so much, I drew my bedroom from memory (with occasional jaunts upstairs to take a quick look based on the POV). I admit that getting the ability to use the ruler to lay in the grid was too tempting to resist when adding my initial verticals and horizontals, such as the mattress, doors and door frames and the bookshelf. The remainder of it I largely did by hand but I found that removing that variable of having to create a straight line by hand, helped me to better control the other variables such as how to imagine objects in a three-dimensional space, which was challenging, but a fun brain exercise. Again, I did this from memory, which I don't usually do, but I really like getting lost in that process. It seemed to exercise another part of my brain that I don't usually.
@lauralana
4mo
I also could not for the life of me figure out the perspective with the dresser on the far right, so I just made it fully horizontal with the picture plane. This makes it look like it's a lot more in the foreground than the other objects in the room. Maybe like the edge of the mattress I need to draw the front plane of the dresser at an angle toward the vanishing point? Actually, now that I see it here, I think that's exactly what I need to do.
Sean H
4mo
Finally got around to finishing this project and hopefully will catch up with the class soon! I drew a library type of room and got a bit lost in the details. I also took the sketch into clip studio and did a lineart overtop to see how it'd look cleaned up. I used the ruler for the long lines digitally but practiced freehand for all the books. I feel it'd look better doing it all one way though and maybe using a textured brush.
Regardless, it took a lot of time that I wish I spent just drawing more of these in my sketchbook... lesson learned I guess!
@lauralana
4mo
I'm so impressed you committed to drawing all of those books! I started with one shelf, got restless and abandoned that. I admire your patience. :)
Zander Schmer-Lalama
4mo
Hello! This was pretty fun to do! From some references and from imagination is did a hospital corridor. I’m pretty happy with how it came out, even though it’s messy in some spots, and I think I should’ve added a bit more details. The bathroom sign/poster has a bands logo on it, if you can name the band I’ll give you a virtual fist bump lol! Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Have a great day!
@osa
4mo
I made another attempts with the grid method. The first one resembles my original post. I think I really over-complicated it for myself, especially with the vanishing point being outside my room. I really like the 2nd one. I know my line quality is not the best but, I think I did a much better job of accurately conveying depth.
Please, any constructive criticism is welcome!
@faegbc
4mo
Attempt with the grid to help. Definitely makes things easier, but i'd like to be more confident with not using it before moving on so im going to try some more. Any feedback welcome.
Tony Zhang
5mo
Okay… ready for level 2!
Tony Zhang
5mo
Finished version, I guess.
Tony Zhang
5mo
Help! I’m just trying to do what Stan did but in a different perspective. However I have a strong intuitive feeling that the purple part shouldn’t be chopped off. Can someone help me out? Thank you!
Tony Zhang
5mo
I gave it some more thoughts and I think this one is correct.
Liviu
7mo
Much messier that I would have liked. Also, not happy with my line quality (I tend to mess up at longer lines). But at least It's from memory :)
Cal Stanback
9mo
first attempt in drawing a living rooming
Ihori Kobayashi
9mo
This is a simplified drawing of my office. I thought it was simple enough, but it took me so long to figure out the position of each line using X-ray vision. I need more practice drawing straight lines.
@ern1s
10mo
I gave it another try
The guy from BluishDot
11mo
A new attempt at level 1. This time I gave the grid a try.
@bonnieblue
1yr
HELP PLEASE. So 1 point perspective, just so I understand from outside the box to inside the box. Take the left box on the horizon line, which side wall do you keep? The one you see or the invisible one? A or B. Do you keep the ceiling too for this horizon line vanishing point? Thank yall for your responses
Martin M
1yr
I have attached an image with black lines representing the visible sides of the box and red lines showing the hidden sides of the box.
it might help you to draw a few of these boxes with this kind of an x-ray vision with all sides drawn. You can then play with line weight and make the visible sides thicker.
@bonnieblue
1yr
Hi y'all, HELP PLEASE! I'm stumped. I like everything, except the right side seats. How do I make them 3D from this angle? Right now they're just flat
Martin M
1yr
I have added an image with some feedback.
The red lines indicate missing lines. Some of the chairs lack their shape because of those missing lines.
The blue line indicates that 3 of the chairs are all connected on the seat level. More of a lounge areas I guess :)
It might be tricky to separate them as the drawing gets tight but adding those details would really capture the 3D effect of the space. Just needs a lot of patience to draw all of those separations between the chairs.
And overall the guiding lines that converge on the vanishing point are capturing a lot the viewers attention. You should clean them up a bit OR draw the outlines of the objects with lines that have more weight. I attached an image where I tried to clean up some of the guiding lines to put more focus on the outlines of the chairs.
It looks like you understand how 1 point perspective works! For these drawings to feel more 3D you just need patience to make sure that there are no lines missing and extra effort to make the important lines pop and to draw the guiding lines lighter.
@markv
1yr
What's make the seats on the right look rounded is the lines of light and shadow on their surfaces. So maybe you can make use of this in your drawing to make them look less flat.
Vin
1yr
Hello, after the demo, I tried again but with train station. In the up-right photo, the gap between train and platform with low horizon is confused me.
J B
1yr
Thanks Stan, this was really helpful. I had a lot of difficulty trying the assignment at first, but watching you in this video and seeing the relationships with the grid helped me a lot. I'm going to go back and try a few of the thumbnail versions for a bit before tackling the big one again.
Juice
1yr
I hadnt watched the level 1 project video all to the end and was really wondering why everyone was drawing awkward sink in their rooms 😅 after seeing this I understood it came from the video and now ive watched it to the end 😅
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