Marshall Vandruff
Marshall Vandruff
Laguna Hills, California
I Write, I Draw, I Teach
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Sita Rabeling
Oh no, I just realized. I forgot to draw them from memory - hope to add those tomorrow.
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I think it's excellent work!
@dantheanimator
Learning new things.
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It might sound silly but I have always wanted to be able to draw arrows like this and have seen it as a key weakness of my drawing that I can’t do something so deceptively simple! 1000 arrows later, and I have put something together… Granted I haven’t watched the extra video on it yet, so when I do I will probably see everything I did wrong, but I have battled this arrow to death for the time being. I have done and redone and redone the assignment, and I can now kind of visualise what I want to draw before I draw it, which was not possible at the beginning. I still put it down wrong to begin with but after about 3 redraws I finally get an arrow that works… kind of. I tried not to draw boxes and fill them in for this - that may sound dumb but I wanted to try and think logically about whether something was close (and therefore bigger) or further away (and therefore smaller or not so visible). Unfortunately my instinct with converging lines (already made more difficult by all these diagonal lines) always seems to be wrong and converge in the wrong direction.
Marshall Vandruff
What you've drawn, and what you've written, give my high hopes for where you'll go. Yeah — this is a basic skill that goes just a bit beyond basic, and you took it on. Good show!
Mon Barker
Ok @Marshall Vandruff I think I smell a trap, or maybe I’m just being dramatic 😱 . So, we have 9 basic views and we can draw these as boxes and even add their X, Y, Z axes. Then we have an arrow as an object, and can assign X, Y, Z and a bonus XZ (pic 2). Now, when we put the arrow in a box and draw it from one of the nine views, we can either prioritize Arrow X, Y, Z (pic 3) or maintain consistent X, Y, Z between boxes and arrows (pic 4). The consequence in picture 3 is that the arrow X, Y, Z (solid line colour examples) is different to the Box X, Y, Z (dashed line colour examples). The consequence in picture 4 is that you are constrained in ways you can tumble the arrow in order to keep the box/arrow co-ordinates consistent. So what’s my question….well, I guess that the axes of the object stay consistent no matter how we tumble them, and the axes of the environment stay consistent regardless of viewer position, but object and environment axes will usually be inconsistent and so we keep two sets of axes (or more if many objects) in mind when drawing…?
Marshall Vandruff
Well, you are being dramatic, but with such dramatically impressive drawings, you've earned a license for drama. If you are able to keep in mind all the words in your post, you have better concentration than I do. To think that I thought I was making it simple! Thanks for dramatizing. For now, you've earned the right to stop thinking. My recommendation is to shift to speed-drawing your choice of these. Lines without Language. Gut over Brain. Into your Impulses!
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Michael Giff
Thanks for the lengthy critique video. I'll be sure to give it another go since I did struggle with it mightily.
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Struggling toward release of your powers and prowess...
Sandra Salem
I didn't have time to work on the assignment from an object so I missed the critique. It turned out as an opportunity though. Being the overachiever and dissatisfied soul I am, I will start working on this but from a creature I am making for another anatomy course I am going through with Rey Bustos. I will challenge myself to try to solve all the orthographic views while designing this creature. Wish me luck!
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And say hi to Rey for me, Sandra! Good to know you are with both of us this season...
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