Drawing Complex Objects from Memory with Peter Han
Drawing Complex Objects from Memory with Peter Han
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Drawing Complex Objects from Memory with Peter Han

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Drawing Complex Objects from Memory with Peter Han

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Marshall Vandruff
When we draw from imagination without reference, it's important to plan and visualize our subject. In this lesson, Peter Han gives us a demo showing us how to use our hands to map out where elements will go on the page, considering placement and scale. He starts with simple shapes and landmarks, building the structure, then layering details. He explains how muscle memory and observation helps him draw confidently across different subjects and how knowing how long a drawing takes allows him to manage his time.
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Jonatan
18h
Great video packed with so much information, I feel a good amount of answers have been answered, particularly how studying one subject thoroughly will let you transfer some of that knowledge can be transferred to other subjects that might not be that similar, so you're not really learning everything from 0, at least, to my understanding, learning to lay out basic shapes/forms for drawing a house or a car will help when building a person out of shapes, or a train. Also seeing the ghosting technique applied to this kinda drawing is a good reminder to take it slow and think before I put lines down the paper. Been doing the line practice from Han every couple days, was doing it daily for a while but stopped, got to get back to it, and it definitely feels it has helped a lot at making me think more overall and not rush things. Thanks for the video!
Li Ming Lin
Thank you Peter and Marshell for a wonderful demo! Very inspiring. I especially appreciate the explanation of how it can be overwhelming at the start regarding which subject matter to dive into first (e.g. architecture, animals, humans, etc...). However, after dedicating ourselves to a particular subject, the knowledge gained can be transferred to another subject. I found this incredibly helpful and encouraging because I was worried about the same thing until I watched this lesson 👍
Diego Garcia Figueroa
Vehicles have always been a struggle for me so over these past days I’ve been practicing the basic shapes and anatomy of cars and motorcycles. Still have a long way to go, but I was happy with these short freehand sketches. Definitely noticed I gotta work on proportions, line confidence, and those damn wheels! Cylinders are hard
Shayan Shahbazi
These are so good. Nice work.
Jacob Granillo
I agree with you with the cylinders, hard to get that shape. Great job! 🤌
Andres Rojas
Watched an anime called Fooly Cooly and have been obsessed with it. One of the characters drives a 1965 Vespa Super Sport so I wanted to try drawing one. Definitely can’t draw it from memory yet but it was fun. I’d like to learn more about how they’re constructed and what the “innards” look like.
Jacob Granillo
I used a 3d model from the drawing basics course from the perspective section, This was pretty challenging 😥. But I finished and went through with it, challenging bit was just another obstacle. I don’t have great line quality as well 😅. The top 3 are from reference and the 2 below that are from memory
Marshall Vandruff
The two below from memory are admirable, prove you are paying attention, and we'll put you onto a large dose of that in our coming project...
Dermot
28d
Awesome demo. I was taken by Peter's knowledge of train parts. It highlighted for me the visual observation experience that an artist builds and remembers. Amazing train. Thanks
chekdot
1mo
Not intimidated at all!! In fact, this just showed me how freely you can express your lines using pen and ink.
Patrick Bosworth
Working freely in pen will help get your confidence up with just about every medium! Great shape breakdown, and nice use of perspective in the trains!!
@colospring
I came across this just as I decided to practice drawing from imagination today—perfect timing, lol. I can copy from a photo, but I struggle to draw without a reference. This video was really inspiring! Not sure whether this is a good approach, but I looked up some spaceship photos, studied the key elements, and then tried to memorize the structures. Then I pieced together different elements to experiment a bit without reference at all. The result isn’t great because of my limited art skills, but it was a really interesting experience!
@blackhand
1mo
lol! Probably going to run out of time before I get 20 years in, but, at least I know I’ll have something to work on for the rest of my life! That aside, this was a great lesson to watch, and does inspire me to keep at it without becoming discouraged. Always need to keep in mind that comparison is the thief of joy. Ars longa, vita brevis.
Amy
1mo
Goals! Key take aways: practice - a lot; observe your subject matter; you must walk and stumble before you can run; simplify; details are icing on the cake; study your principles of perspective first. Inspiring to watch Peter.
Daniela
1mo
me enjoying these videos because they are packed full of information VS me wanting just clear homework because these videos are too packed with information VS me not having time for either because of the holiday season and private matters That was my attempt at being funny, thanks for the video as always
Christian Schlierkamp
Amazing. I learned a ton. - also about steam engines. It is absolutely inspiring. Thanks Peter and Marshall for sharing this incredebly insightfull lesson.
Andreas Kra
Here, I applied the same approach to a different complex object: a Formula 1 car. I began by researching older models to better understand their design. Using orthogonal views, I studied the car’s proportions, using the wheel as my measuring unit. I then explored a 3D model on Sketchfab, rotating and analyzing it to deepen my understanding of its form. For the final sketch, I started with preliminary pencil lines and refined them with ink pens. I still notice some errors that aren’t quite right, but this study was a lot of fun to work on, and I’m happy with the final result. (F1 2024 BMW M24 3D Model) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/f1-2024-bmw-m24-concept-74a9fe9bce284cbf9249e8e79e43f566
Andres Rojas
They all look good but something about the pencil drawings on the left look really nice
Kelly Keuneke-Marts
Consider me inspired AND extremely intimidated. (Definitely not intimated by the speed at which he drew that train 👀)
Michael Giff
"This is not meant to intimidate but to inspire".... I feel strangely threatened.... granted an image of a train barreling towards us has been programed into our subconscious as threatening and is typically not meant with warm and fuzzy feelings... maybe you should of drawn something like a Volkswagen Beetle... or better yet a Matchbox Volkswagen Beetle. No one's been intimidated by one of those. All joking aside thanks for posting the video I do enjoy watching people work, especially ones that are not sped up so we can see what is happening.
Ralph
1mo
Amazing. We need a Peter Han class on Proko
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