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Daniela
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2d
added comment inFrom Blobs to Airplanes
I'm late to the plane party due but this was a journey. You find challenges where you expect it less I suppose.
So in order of events
1. I went for a simple blob approach first. I was simple and pleasant although visualizing a foreshortened blob is definitely a challenge
2. Did a blob and then boxed it. Now, what bothered me here was that the blob did show that the plane was thinner towards the back but the box did not. I tried to add a smaller box and connect them but it did not look right.
3. Plane from boxes, nice and clean and pleasant.
4. At this point it was bothering me that I couldn't visualize how something smaller at the back, with the back facing towards me, would look. So here I did some form explorations with 2 boxes. They aren't very well done but I did learn from them I think
5. This time I tried to do the plane from the back as foreshortened as I could. It's not very symmetrical because I was tired at this point, but I do think I mostly got it.
I expected to finish this homework fast but the more I drew this plane the more I felt like was missing. Honestly even now I feel like I could do much more but for today I am satisfied.
Sara
2d
Your bent/‘organic’ perspective lines look really cool
Maria Bygrove
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13d
Playing with the new perspective app - it's brilliant and so generous to provide so much reference for free!
Again and again I find that I struggle with getting the initial angles right. I tried to draw exactly what I saw on the screen and still my box cross ended up both rotated and tilted in relation to the reference. Apparently I'm rubbish at judging angles ;)
Also, while I was at it, I practiced some overlapping forms. I think I've go the hang of crossing cubes but spheres make my brain hurt :(
oh your post reminds me, maybe you have this site or don't need it, but I have it in my bookmarks and I look at it when I want to feel trippy https://eyes.training/intersections/
Daniela
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17d
Person that has never designed a non human character, that never drew a character turn around and never did multiple things together in a perspective grid, at 4pm: "Yeah this seem fast, I'll just do it before dinner how hard can it be"
Needless to say, I did not do it before dinner but I did manage to do it before bed!
In retrospect I should have maybe looked up some tutorials, I'm fairly happy with it for what it is tho
Anthony DeGennaro
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22d
Here is my work on this. I struggle with perspective a lot and I was really hoping that this course would help me. I still am struggling with it all, I cant seem to draw a box correctly at all let alone rotate it. I have probably drawn thousands of boxes in an attempt to learn different aspects of it all. what do you suggest I do going forward? Thanks
So while this course is not there yet, it is important to mind your own feelings, if your personal goal and what would make you happy right now is to draw a box correctly, then I highly recommend watching some drawabox videos, maybe following the lessons there too. It's good to look at multiple sources and explanations for things either way, hearing teachers say it in different ways makes the image more complete
Example of drawabox tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGWbjDI6xQ&ab_channel=Uncomfortable
I hope I'm allowed to share this here and it's not disrespectful 🙏
Daniela
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30d
Asked for help
Took other people's idea of using a perfume bottle. This was definitely interesting, usually when I do object construction measurements, it feels like an unusual form of punishment. But while the blob method didn't have the most accurate results, it was surprisingly fun, it was a pleasure to do it.
I tried to not look back much to try to fix mistakes, kept it fairly quick, which also probably helped with my enjoyment
Overall the thing I struggle with is keeping the size of the initial box at least semi consistent.
I will also try to do a more complex object one of these day and see how it fares
Thank you for the lesson as usually
so I tried to do these more or less free hand, it's definitely not my proudest work but i said I'll do a more complex object and I did so at least I'm happy with that
Daniela
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23d
my god did I go through an existential crisis during this, I would have a long speech about them but I don't think it's needed, the TLDR is that not practicing blobs hit me like a truck
ah and at the end i thought that all those contours looked like armor plating so I tried to do some of that but I'm not sure how relevant that actually was
Michael Giff
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1mo
Asked for help
Step one: Find a blocky object: Cool I have a deck of cards!
Step two: Put it in 3/4 view: Great! Easy! What can possibly go wrong?
Step Three: Use the blob method to simplify it.... well 2 out of the 3 steps went well.
Not sure how you would make a blob for something that is extremely foreshortened. No matter how I orient it it still feel like the cards are sticking up too high. Also not sure how using something abstract like a blob allows you to keep everything in proportion. In the demo it looks like Mr. Vandruff is using an egg shape to make a deck of cards... but I just don't see it thus I guess while putting down my lines and wouldn't you know? It looks like a series of bad guesses as oppose to looking like something that was constructed with some sort of understanding about what I was drawing.
I'll keep posting and working on it. Any advice would be welcomed from one and all.
More questions for community members:
Are you measuring your blob or do you eyeball it?
Do you have an understanding on what the ellipses and planes do when you rotate your blob? Or are you just using intuition?
Are you carefully planning out your blob? If so, how?
How do you focus on making a blob but at the same time equally focus on whatever item your referencing?
Finally and most importantly.... should I switch to decaff?
so this is not the most precise drawing but
A blorb is still a 3 dimensional shape with multiple faces so when drawing it, you can keep in mind which face you are seeing. Since you're using it to draw a box, one of the faces of the blorb will be more flat. Drawing a couple of bigger blorbs in contour shapes on them as a warm up for this exercise, might help you with visualizing. The second image attached is the exercise I'm talking about, although I haven't done it a very long time myself and I will take it as a reminder that I should do it more often
Daniela
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2mo
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
Daniela
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2mo
These lessons really made me realize how, even tho I see so much art in a day, I truly see very little from it. Maybe limiting the amount of art I look at would help with having my mind focus on it properly, but that might be more of a social media usage personal problem. All in all I shall try to keep in mind the phrase "dessert later".
I have the exact same problem. I love art so much that I pretty much spend all my free time looking at it, but the ease of access to art cuts up all the time I should have spent appreciating and analysing it because I get so anxious to move on to the next piece of artwork. "Desert later" indeed.
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2mo
Daniela, you are onto a skill that is hard for many of us, but valuable when we know where we want to go with our art: More attention on fewer pieces. I'm glad this had that effect on you! When you can take time to really get to know a few great works, you give them a chance to work their way into your own standards.