Marshall Vandruff
Laguna Hills, California
I Write, I Draw, I Teach
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Marshall Vandruff
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Anke Mols
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added comment inAssignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis
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I love this picture by Caspar David Friedrich (das Eismeer- die gescheiterte Hoffnung). Isn't it a bit of a pancake approach??
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8d
It shore is!
Maria Bygrove
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For this one, I didn't use the blob, instead I put the airplane into a box - this helped with constructing it in perspective but I found it difficult to estimate the position of the box to correspond with the angles of planes in the reference, and so my drawings appear from a slightly different POV. Is there a trick for this or just practice?
Also, in the drawing top right, I messed up something about the placement of the plane in the box because I had to end up drawing the left wing far outside the box to maintain the proportions at all. But I can't figure out where I went wrong. I established center points for the front and back planes of the box to give myself a central axis of the plane and went from there. So how come it ended up being so much off? The more I look, the more I can't see where I went wrong ;)
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The answer to your first question - yes, it is practice, but not "just" practice — it is practice with aspect lines, and seeing them, or rather choosing them in a confusing environment. The plane has many angles, warping what we can discern, and even the perfect Z lines are "in perspective", so which line do you choose?
Well, to begin, you chose a complex form. And you did well. And your question is worthy enough to focus on it for several lessons. That's why we are about to move from blobs to precise line systems.
The answer to your second question I'm less sure of, partly because it looks fine to me! The problem may be that you are expecting too much from the proportions of that box. It's hard enough to get the box line positions, harder still to get their proportions accurate, and if they're not, you're "carving into" a box that you had to guess.
You are well ahead of this project, and your awareness of "central axis" helped you hone it into a well-proportioned drawing, quite advanced compared to the blobs from which they came.
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These were a lot of fun. Ran into some interesting design problems where it would look better to consider more carefully where the walls of the extruded shapes fall in relation to the edges of the main shapes. Some edges lined up too closely to the perspective lines to look good.
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8d
Good job though! Makes you appreciated the graphic designers more, eh?
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I was not that motivated for this one. Just writing my name did not feel that exciting to me and I have done some one point perspective drawings before so just doing letters felt too easy. It was not! It required a lot of thinking to get right and it turns out letters are quite good to use because you automatically get a variety of different shapes to practice with.
Anyway here is my name where I used a ruler and then 20 freehand sketches.
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8d
You so did it! Good work Angelica - especially to see your pursuit of variety.
Daniela
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20d
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It seems I had lost my intuition on how to do this in 8th grade, spent a little bit of time regaining it
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9d
Good job!
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Not going to lie, I found the process of this very satisfying. Not sure what it says about me that I enjoy marking things out, using the tools and just playing at being precise. 🤷♂️😂
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9d
What it says to me about you is that the world needs you, Ollie.
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9d
Love the rat-a-tat rhythmic echoes. Good work, Sara.
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Ever since I trained, my name has been a nightmare. Being punished to write it 1000 times is enough to make you dread it. And imagine all the times you need to repeat it under signed documents.....
I tried my best. Some letters took me half an hour, like the S. It's tricky to get it right, and it added a bit more stress when I realized I was not able to easily copy a complex curve.
Well, there is an apex I need to practice more, I guess.
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9d
You bore the heavy burden of your long and ancient name and have emerged, like Atlas, stronger.
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Think logically.
Take your time and match each angle to get the most of of your drawing.
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9d
Very good. Thoughtful.
