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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J. Menriv
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5d
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Project - Wheels on Vehicles
Martin M
4d
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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12d
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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
Chauncey Holder
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18d
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This assignment was hard at first but I think I am getting the hang of it!
Awesome progress! You are clearly putting in the work by practicing a lot.
Something to improve with these 1 point perspective boxes: the only diagonal lines are lines that are converging to the vanishing point. All other lines need to be fully horizontal (just as the horizon line) OR they are vertical (90 degrees rotated from horizon line).
You have some of the boxes on the sides of the pages that seem to twist towards the middle. This will be the case in the next lessons on 2 point perspective. But during this 1 point perspective you don't really have a second vanishing point to converge those lines towards.
I have attached examples of some of the lines that don't seem accurate for 1 point perspective.
So in 1 point perspective draw all lines either:
1) Towards the vanishing point
or
2) Straight horizontal
or
3) Straight vertical
David Bryan
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23d
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I don’t know if this page is even active but I figured I’d try posting this way too. I signed up for the figure drawing fundamentals class and I’m stuck on gesture drawing. I took this class to break out of my comfort zone and boy is it uncomfortable! Love the videos but my gesture drawing makes me wonder if I’m wasting my time. They never come close to what the image looks like. . I have no background in art except high school 35 years ago. lol Is it realistic to think I can do this?
I took a look at your post from 5 days ago. The one with 2min gestures from a model app.
I think they look great for 2 min poses! Its hard to capture more in such a short time period. Your drawings seem to have correct proportions and I can understand the poses they are in.
If you want to see a quick improvement in skill with gesture drawing course try this:
Take one of the demo videos where Stan shows how he draws each of the photos.
Pause the video whenever a new photo appears.
Draw that photo with the time limit.
Once you finish your drawing, watch how Stan does his drawing and look for differences.
Draw these differences as fixes onto your drawing.
And then try to draw the same pose from the photo again.
Your second attempt will look better than your first attempt for sure and you will start picking up tricks with every photo you try.
Quinton Larrimore
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24d
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The first image is me just cleaning up the image and trying to apply some of those previous lessons we learned across the course. Image 2 has the vanishing point and how I constructed everything. Image 3 is my thumbnails for deciding what I wanted to do and some problem solving too. I should really try to do a vanishing point off the page. I can't quite put my finger on it but I feel like my work is boring. If anyone has any feedback I'd appreciate it.
@roddangelo
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24d
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I think you correctly established a vanishing point and made some of the lines converge there. But then instead of having all of the lines converge you made them parallel to the lines near them. I have added a picture to highlight two examples of it.
All of those lines should converge to the same point for the illusion of a 3D space to work.
At the moment the objects at the back of the kitchen don't look smaller than the objects closer to the viewer because the lines are not converging.
Mary
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2mo
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This was a very tough assignment for me. The “toy bus” has issues with the tires for sure. The toy truck looks better. I did not use a photo. First time doing something from imagination.
I’m up for all the help anyone is willing to give.
Thank you.
Congrats on taking a leap to draw from imagination! It will be tricky.
Some feedback for the truck:
The lines of the body of the truck are converging in the wrong direction. As things get further from us they should get smaller. But the truck looks like it's closest parts are smaller than the parts further away from us.
I have added a picture with the lines highlighted and an example of how they should converge.
I'm unsure about providing feedback about the tires. I see you constructed them with the box which is good! And you might be doing all the steps correctly there. But as I mentioned above, the vanishing points are not used or used incorrectly so the tire construction boxes might be incorrect as well.
I would suggest trying this exercise again. Mark down the 2 vanishing points and make sure that all the lines are converging to those points OR going vertical.
Martin M
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2mo
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Level 1 - Question!
Which should I prioritize while grouping values:
1) Put similar values into the same group even if it means breaking the shapes. Such as a persons coat and the background wall merging into one group thus breaking the silhouette. Example - in my drawings the person hunched over the table in the 3 value version has their back merged together with the wall as the values are similar. But this breaks the silhouette.
OR
2) Keep the shapes by pushing some colors into other value group. This will keep silhouettes intact but changes values of some objects.
Second question: Should I aim to capture the correct value of the group as well? I now noticed that I was so focused on the grouping of values that I forgot to figure out where on the value scale the group actually should land. I just defaulted the darker tone to as close to 10 as I could and mid colors to somewhere in the mid. I guess I should try to figure out which value number best represents the average of the group.
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2mo
This is a demo I made for another student, and I think it would help you as well.
It looks like you’re doing exactly what you need to for this project. Keep drawing more.
