Martin M
Estonia
Used to draw in high school. Picking it up again now at the age of 35. Started taking courses online September 2023. Super excited!
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Martin M
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2d
added comment inProject - Designing Value Groups
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Another attempt. I think my mid tones are not really separated from the highlights. The highlights are not "popping".
Martin M
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6d
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I went for level 2 but found it challenging to keep shadows and lights separate.
I think I should do a few runs of level 1 to get more clear separation and cool shapes in first.
I just really wanted to try out different edges.
Martin M
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12d
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This first assignment of the course does not feel beginner friendly while the course is marked as "all skill levels".
Don't get me wrong, I know I have a lot to learn.
And I want to learn about these fundamentals.
And I see a lot of content mentioned during the video.
But it is not broken down into specific skills to practice or assignments to focus on.
I might be biased as I am currently taking the drawing basics course. The chapter there on values is really valuable (pun intended).
While over here I feel like we went over a whole chapter worth of painting techniques in a demo video.
The first demo video covers: grouping of values, shapes, edges, splitting values into light and shadow and keeping them separate,
value steps (phrase like "going 2 steps down on my value" only make sense if you learned the value scale before) , layers (I only noticed during my second watch that there are specific points where he creates new layers. The video is edited in a way that you don't really see how many or which layer is being worked on)
This is all super interesting to hear. Clearly this is a master sharing their process and it must be great for intermediate and advanced painters.
But for a beginner like me this has been many hours of struggling with the tools and concepts.
I see the mistakes in my painting and I struggle to fix them without introducing new mistakes.
I want to get into painting.
But perhaps this course expects us to already be able to paint traditionally before starting these lessons on digital painting.
You have really nailed the part where you draw cylinders (wheels) into the boxes you have prepared. Good job!
But the boxes you prepared don't seem to converge to a vanishing point. The boxes feel more like they are all the same size thus breaking the illusion of 3D space. Objects further away should be smaller and in this exercise its achieved by having a common vanishing points for all of the boxes that are used to construct the wheels.
Or maybe the VP is just super super far off the page.
@landsloth
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1mo
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Attempted to try it free hand as well which predictably turned out worse results than the other two but it's good practice for free hand straight lines at least! Pleased with myself nonetheless.
Good job!
Almost all the lines converge correctly. I added a few red lines to show some shelves converging incorrectly.
Also a few blue lines to indicate some lines that don't seem correct for 1 point perspective.
I agree that it feels better the way you drew the shelf, but with 1 point perspective the lines can only converge to the vanishing point OR be perfectly vertical or perfectly horizontal.
The surface on the right comes really close to the "camera" so there should be a lot of foreshortening happening. Other lines seem to be good.
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2mo
Main issue with your 5 and 10 is you're missing the dark halftones.
Very cool tank!
The spaces between the wheels are filled in with black. This is a great stylistic choice but it makes it hard to evaluate if these are correct cylinders.
I can only see one plane of the wheel cylinders: the ovals facing us. And I think you have the major and minor axis reversed on them.
I would suggest uploading one more attempt at this exercise and not erasing the construction box that you use to draw the cylinder. That way we can help you improve or validate that you have mastered this lesson.
I like the stylised look of the drawing!
For this exercise I would suggest to draw larger wheels and perhaps push the vanishing points together a bit more.
At the moment there is no convergence for the lines because the VPs are too far away.
So it is hard to evaluate if you really mastered the topic of this lesson: drawing cylinders in perspective
Kawaki Jr
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5mo
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Feel like I kind of get it after a few tries although it still feels a little confusing 😅 like trying to figure out where the floor ends or where I should stop the ceiling
The last drawing from the mouse point of view (camera on the floor) is really good.
Its clean and you show a bit of the x ray vision as we can see through the cupboard.
Although it seems that the table is against the fridge door so you can't open the door any more :D
