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onigi *pronunce [on-ie-gee]*
Thank you so much for the critique!
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I found it hilarious that you show how to pronounce your name, and he goes "I'll name you Pronounce"
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Dermot
This is really a box question. I'm posting it here, as for me it'll help me understand the foundation box at the beginning of the monster truck. I looked at earlier videos but didn't resolve my issue. When you get to the end of the video you ghost in the back of the box (truck) to include the Cylindrical unit ( Turbo Fan). I tried to copy this to the box posted below but it didn't look right. I kept rubbing out the lines as it just looked odd. I thought I'd draw the 3 point ? initial box and Ghost in the back of the box. No matter how I ghost it in, it looks weird. Adding the ghost lines also seems to change the illusion of how I see the box from beneath. Can anyone advise how to go about this. It could be that my starting 3point box is wrong ? Thanks
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Hi there! Hope I can help out! I think there are several key things that aren't working, and I'll approach the box on top, and then the one on the bottom. - For the box on top, the main problem is that the box is not in 2 or 3 point perspective, since lines aren't converging anywhere. This is the reason why the box on the top and bottom look so different, perspective is being done differently. However, the "x-ray vision" concept doesn't require a 2 or 3 point perspective, and can even be done for parallel boxes in isometric view, which is the case for your box. The trick is that you have to copy the angles, and trace a line starting from the point until it's supposed to finish, and then the intersections will give you the "hidden" points! For 2 or 3 point perspective, it's the same theory, but that's better explained for the box below. - The box below is also not in 3 point perspective, as the vertical lines don't seem to converge, but you do have two vanishing points. The key problem with this is that you're guessing the angles of the bottom plane, when in fact they should be lines to the respective vanishing points. Since it's a box, all the lines will have to converge to the same points for the perspective to work. The "x-ray" vision here is established the same way, keep drawing lines from a given point to the respective vanishing point, and intersections will be your next points to trace next! Since this might seem complicated, I've color coded a "timelapse" of a box being drawn in 2 point perspective. The only difference between this and a 3 point is that the vertical lines would be converging to somewhere above the box. Here's a run-down of what I did: - trace a single line (grey) - carry the two points to the two vanishing points, resulting in 4 lines (orange) - connect the top and bottom planes to figure out the width and length of the box (blue) - carry those 4 points to the respective vanishing points, resulting in 4 lines (green). These should intersect, which gives you exactly what you need! - connect the intersecting points (purple) And those are the steps for a correct 2 point perspective!
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Dermot
Thanks for the Cylinder and Ellipses tutorial. I realise the explanation is eyeballing ellipses and not precision. I've watched it several times, but miss the point how you established the Major Axis and it's offset from the centre. When I look at the completed drawing, I'm left uncertain of the Major Axis reference points, which when joined define the Major axis.
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That's the key part I'm having difficulties with! Hope Stan covers this a bit more in the critique section!
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Scott Diesing
Level UNO
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Great work! If I can give some feedback it would be to try one of these again, but this time trying to align the rotation of the cube as closely as you can to the rotation of the finger section / palm. I think that will make your hand look even cooler and closer to the reference! I added a rough sketch of what I mean next to yours. Even though I did speed run this drawing a bit, and reduced the accuracy of what I'm trying to convey, I hope you can still see a bit of what I'm talking about! Again, awesome work!
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Here's my Level 1 and Level 2. I intend to do another one after the critique, but this was quite a bit trickier than anticipated. I struggled quite a bit with the overlapping forms, didn't want to do unrealistic cubes in the sense that they would be "inside" one another, but that left me with some big gaps that shouldn't be there. I think I didn't do too bad, but would love some feedback!
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Lenserd martell
That's really difficult! i need more practice!
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Man, those are really good. I think conforming it too much to a box is almost harder than having some flex in the boxes, great work!
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Gannon Beck
Very nice exercise.
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Cool shading!
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Angel Contreras
Hi Marco, great course. Wish I had an instructor as clear when I was in school. Anyhow, you refer to brushes included with the course that you use, I am not sure where to get a hold of them. Is there a link?
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Sorry that no one got to you! The download for the brush pack is in the main course link https://www.proko.com/course/the-color-survival-guide/overview
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Sasha Yu
I learned so much from this lesson! This was so much fun. I tried to paint a different light source and different colours to apply the lesson rather than copy the result. Was this successful? Is the light source correct? Do the colours retain harmony? Any and all feedback appreciated.
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I think the colours still retain harmony, but maybe they could be pushed a tad further, using the hard light method he described!
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Not drawing related, just wanted to give a shout out to the music selection. This is the second time I ended up doing a Shazam in the middle of a lesson, and the music that got me this time was Moment, by Jones Meadow. Came for the learning, stayed for the bangers
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loes roos
Very useful explanation! I so far only practised with the boxes and tried to fit a head in, but this is much clearer. Will try that next!
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Did exactly the same! Also going to try doing the references I didn't do next :)
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@pedrobranco
2 minutes in, I felt like I had taken the portrait drawing part a bit too seriously and missed the mark of the exercise so I did the lvl 1 assignment again. While I can't say that I'm an eminence at this, it's not a very hard exercise if you know what you're looking for.
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Nice work! There are some that feel like they aren't converging like a box would (namely 6, 9 and 14) but you nailed the bounding box aspect of the head, that was a bit challenging for me personally
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@drawingdodo
Good work! Looks like you’re trying out several iterations of the same reference, which is always cool.
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@zainabed99
I attempted to make it rectangular but was limited by the loomis method.
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Hey there! I think you might have tried to do two different exercises. In this case, it might have been better to try to draw the head inside of the box, rather than a full head with the Loomis method. Some of the lines in the box don't really converge the way they should, and doing the head inside the box makes mistakes like those more clear. But this is a really tricky project!
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AJ Wolf
Here is my level 1 assignment. Some of these were tricky as I kept wanting to go for 3-point perspective due to the shape of the jaw with the downward-looking poses.
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Felt the same way, some of mine ended up 3 point perspective because of some angles. Nice work!
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@moquiritox
Hi There! 11 and 9 to start!
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Hi there! This is a very tricky project (and number 9 is one of trickiest of the bunch), so I think you might have tried to do too much in one go. I would suggest you try to nail down the angles of the box first, and see if it feels right to you. When you think you have a solid starting point, then try to do the level 2 part of the exercise. In this case, there are some key issues that are present in the perspective of the box, that make other mistakes in the level 2 section more noticeable. I attached an image to make it more clear than in writing! Hope this helps, keep at it!
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mac hewitt
My initial attempt seemed to have too many curved lines, so the next drawing, I forced myself to pretty much only use straight lines to convey the structure.
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Phenomenal stuff!
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@sniggy
Level 1! I appreciate any critique! Thank you! Jule
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Hey there! I have some critiques in some boxes, where I feel there's some perspective lacking. Looking at the original images, there are some angles that feel off, like 14 for example. If you try to converge some of the lines, they aren't converging to the same point, like in the image below. Hope this helps you!
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@cakewi
I'm worried I didn't do the 2nd part correctly.
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Perhaps, I think you forgot to place the box to guide your level 2 part. I'm not sure, but Stan will make a video to clear that up!
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Vue Thao
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Cool idea to add noses and ears :D Good work!
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