Lisanne
Lisanne
Utrecht, Netherlands
New to this drawing thing
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Lisanne
Here's my first page of level 2. More tomorrow! So far this felt a bit easier than level 1, not having to visualise a body from imagination. Clearly a weak spot :) I tried to keep an eye on line weight and emphasising which side is closest to the viewer. Making progress but more room for improvement I think!
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Lisanne
Dear @Stan Prokopenko, I have a question. I got a little confused about how to find the bottom box, when looking up at the hips, drawing from reference. I noticed (see photo) that in the demo after drawing a box, you could easily lay in leg attachments and it would all work out great. When I tried this on my torso box for photo 14, my legs didn't seem to fit the box. Do you have any advice on how to find the line that's covered mostly by leg? And are the points where the hips are sticking out usually a good pointer for the upper line (example 1). I did notice that didn't really work out for me, in example 2 I adjusted my box (lowered the upper line) to where I imagined the leg attachments would be.. although I think example 1 looks better than 2 (PS example 1 was not my first take but one after many many adjustments). I would love to hear your take on this! Maybe I'm overthinking it.
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Lisanne
I took my time for level 1. This was a real training in rethinking! It was hard to come up with poses in my mind, but I felt I was really training my mind to make new connections. My poses are a little similar to each other. I need to work on that :)
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@breakfast
I tried baba yaga’s hut again with more gesture. I think this is better than the first, but I also think I combined too many distortions.
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Lisanne
I like the extreme leaning on the back! It goes quite well with the movement. I think the distortions work well together. By bloating the house on the bottom back part you made it look like a backpack :) What catches my eye is the legs. If anything I miss a bit of gesture or movement showing the same temperament (speed) as the face. Good job anyway!
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Lenserd martell
i am too late
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Lisanne
Very cool! Great work!
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Lisanne
I made a treehouse too! It's a little on the safe side. But I'm quite happy with it. For perspective I angled the upper house as if looking up on it, and the bottom house like I'm almost at eye level (but looking from a distance, say a small hill. I hope that comes across. I've included my ideas page as well with the rough idea (and a second idea).
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Andreas Kra
Here is a nearly treehouse village with some twists and turns.
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Lisanne
What a great idea and amazingly done!
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Lisanne
A first attempt, but I got a little overwhelmed by all the ideas in my head lol. I think the left part turned out well. I love the look of a pagoda and I turned it in this cute, round main character. Everyone likes this pagoda. But the building behind it is mainly functional, maybe you even have to buy tickets there. It's beautiful, but stern and serious. Then there was some side story in my head with the little houses with chimneys in a row, they are all cramped up along the road and they don't have access to the nice garden. They are kind of sucked back into the background, into the mountain. The mountain I attempted to draw to symbolise this, did not get the love that it deserved :) Thinking about it, it would be nice if I let the mountain literally eat the little houses, and fold over the top of the houses.. to be continued! PS: I included the photo that I looked at to get inspired!
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Lisanne
:)
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Fede
perspective is my enemy I think - honestly I can't seem to get into any architectural stuff at all. Really looking forward to the torso boxes project, which is more towards what interests me. anyway, this took a while and I worry that it looks both too wonky and meanwhile not exaggerated enough.
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Lisanne
Keep going Fede! It’s hard, but your drawing definitely shows perspective so don’t give up :)
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Ihori Kobayashi
Both doghouse and complex building assignments were very challenging for me. The buildings I drew first several times did not look good. Some things (proportion, balance, rotation, perspective) were always off. For the complex building, I did not feel like I would ever get it right, so I was drawing a bunch of drafts on many sheets of scratch paper. When I unexpectedly drew a building that could work, it was drawn on water-damaged scratch paper. 
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Lisanne
Hi Ihori! Sometimes drawing on a piece of scrap paper helps to take the pressure off :) I’ve had the same happening! Your row of buildings looks fun, bending and stretching. My pointers would be: 1) your left and middle building seem to have very different angles. For the left building it seems like I’m looking at it from a low level, looking up. For the middle building, it looks like I’m looking at it from a high level, looking down on it. 2) for the building on the right, your roof curves beautifully, but on the righthand side it looks like the walls stop all of a sudden, like it doesn’t follow the curve. I think you could solve this by applying the same curve to the bottom of your house and rounding it out. I’m no expert myself but I hope this helps!
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