Marshall Vandruff
Laguna Hills, California
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Mon Barker
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9d
added comment inEyeballing Proportions - Demo 2
Great video of the process. Quick question; at 12:05 minute in the video, the discussion on how the rear stabilizer wings look off - initially part of the illusion, later concludes grid error- but, are there sometimes situations where you‘d be inclined to ditch perspective ‘law’ in favour of artistic license (i.e. you would thicken that more distant wing to make more similar) when that makes a visually better outcome?
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5d
That was not a grid error, it was a proportion error. The grid never said a word about how thick that stabilizer wing should be. The artist chose it, regretted it, repented of it, and the grid was innocent.
But to the second part of your note — yes! I hope that you've picked up a main theme of this course, that we use tools only as they help us do the job...
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Shayan Shahbazi
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19d
Asked for help
i love that I can learn so much from the orthographic views. This even completes my perspective understanding and let’s me fly freely and without being scared, I also added my latest digital painting that I used every method Marshal taught us by now and I am pretty satisfied with the way it looks it took +70 hours and I mostly used the blob approach, the cube method, one point perspective and what we learned in melted pancakes I even did it on several stages like thumbnails and samples. I love where we are heading and excited to see what is coming next.
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9d
Shayan - you rock
Maria Bygrove
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21d
Asked for help
Today my heart wasn't quite in it and it shows in the drawing. I'll try to come back to it later but I thought it important to put in the work anyway.
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9d
Doing it when your heart is not in it is almost the definition of discipline.
Thanks for posting.
Dermot
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13d
Asked for help
Marshall, I've started looking at the many grids you uploaded, thanks.
How to you decide which grid you want to use as a guide.
If I want to draw something how do I choose between all these grids?
How would I design these grids from the ground up and what decisions
would I need to make to achieve the perspective I seek?
Am I missing the point of this exercise ?
I'd like to create a Grid to draw the 9 Basic Position Cubes.
Any advise would be great.
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11d
Get the big point of the video — a grid reminds us of line directions. It’s not to make it more complicated, it’s to make it easier — the training wheels of perspective drawing.
Look at the form studies you did from blobs. Did all the lines go in the correct directions? Probably not. Even masters run into that loss of orientation for exactly where all three axes aim. This takes care of that.
Choose a grid. Any grid. Use your instinct. Draw form studies on it. You can redraw your old ones, or create new ones, and you won’t have to worry about how to position the lines. Now you can put your attention onto our current difficult challenge: proportion!
Regarding making up your own grids: do it if you’ve got an idea for one, and know where you want the lines to go, and if you don’t mind that they aren’t “scientifically accurate. These printed ones are.
But if you’re having trouble with ready-made grids, wait. Inventing grids requires you to make decisions which seem to be confusing you — though it may help sell you on the pre-made grids. Falling off the bike a few times might prompt a new appreciation for training wheels.
I hope this helps.
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Ishaan Kumar
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21d
Asked for help
Here is my swing at this exercise. The first thing I noticed was feeling unsure about making parallel lines converge and to what extent. This was especially the case for the dead above and below angles. The second was how difficult it became to maintain volumetric consistency within the same set of angles. Invariably edge lengths and angles would shorten or lengthen and this would be the case with thicknesses as well. But I'm sure that with the right level of 'Marshalling', Mr Vandruff will make a soldier out of me yet 😉.
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18d
You are on your way.
You know that parallel lines converge. To what extent? Good question.
Short answer: it depends on how close we are to them.
Long answer: Lesson groups 11 & 12.
