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Michael Giff
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9h
Not rage quitting just taking a break.... rage break?
Thanks for the lengthy critique video. I'll be sure to give it another go since I did struggle with it mightily.
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9d
Struggling toward release of your powers and prowess...
Emily King
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2mo
DId a super-quick sketch in honor of the Ori soundtracks being re-released on Vinyl!
With this, my focus was on speed... 10 min. for the Tonal sketch, 10 min. for the highlights, 20 min. for the colors.
Still trying to find the best-practices that work for the way my li'l brain can understand.
I especially love the fact that now, playing video-games is part of my work! <333
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Here's my attempt at this exercise. It felt daunting at first but it was a good opportunity to revise the blob method, strengthen freehand straight lines, eyeball the DCFOA parameters, get a hang of maintaining the volume and proportions of an object at different angles and also, revise the Cartesian coordinate system ;)
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"These should be easy".... I accept that challenge! (maybe even resent it a tad?)
After 90 minutes I was left with nothing but eraser marks and frustrated scribbles so I kind of took to heart the advise from part one of the lesson and just sketch loosely and let the chip fall where they may lie and keep drawing.
Started with a 2h pencil and attempted to draw through the object (quickly abandoned, all it does is show mistakes and more erasing... if you guys ever launch an erasing course I feel I would excel at it greatly!) then I would lighten the lines with a kneaded eraser and draw over them with a 2b lead without tools (oh t-square, triangles and isometric view, I miss thee!) These took about 30 minutes per page.
Try to post more up tomorrow.
Can anyone tell me why it looks like I should see the top of the second step but in the example I'm drawing from you can't?
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Oh dear... I'm kind of intimidated by this one and have not done a whole lot of drawing. Can anyone explain how these are being set up? Or should I not worry about it at my level and just sketch and label... despite them being an abomination to accuracy and proportion?
For the hexagon, I kinda deconstructed what Marshall did and drew a box around the form using the edges of the hexagon to discover the 3 axes which give you the box. Then I divided the planes of the box with diagonals to find the halfway point for the hexagon, and finally just connected them. I found the other side by using the parallel axis lines along a particular axis. I hope this makes some sense, I tried but it’s a lot of lines so I apologize if it’s confusing. It’s simpler than it looks to try, much harder to get perfect (intuiting the VPs), but not a hard system in itself, just lots of lines. Basically sussing out the 3 axes and diagonals then a lot of connect the dots. So you were right to look for VPs, we just don’t need to find them for the slanted xz lines because discovering the centre point with the diagonals method give us the result quicker. The diagonal method is a reliable way to get halves or thirds or more in perspective where halves for example get smaller further back and don’t look like exact halves. I use the same methods for the shape that shall not be named, I try to find the axes in common with a box, and start there.
For the second image in your post, that will come up when we begin to do accurate proportions I think so I wouldn’t worry about that yet. Rn I’m just estimating some parts from the diagonals and axes method above.
Michael Giff
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23d
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Template time! I originally was thinking how I could retro fit it into making a robot... and then quickly reminded myself to keep it simple, so here's a kind of a blocky outline of what could one day be a robot... maybe.
@Dermot My last submission for this assignment... and I decided to butcher your project.... my sincerest apologizes. Really lost on how to get the thickness of the brackets and how to get it to sit on the ledge.
All and all though, I'm glad I tried it out. The cubed robot was a tad too easy, your example was a tad too hard. Balance has been restored!!
Michael Giff
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28d
Very cool and quite inspirational for me. I bought David K. Rubins anatomy book... years ago at this point with the intention of tracing over comic book art and then attempting to draw in the proper anatomy of the muscles as if I had X-ray vision... but it just seems so daunting every time I sit down to do it. Nice to see someone with the discipline to carry through with things XD.
Do you trouble yourself with learning the names? Or is it good enough to just be able to identify the different shapes and forms?
Michael Giff
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29d
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Questions Galore:
1: Am I right in saying that there is no foreshortening in isometric views?
2: If that is true can I not measure out the plan and use those metrics for all vertical and angled lines to create said view?
I'm trying to convert this example into an isometric view. I measured ( At least I thought I did) all of the lines on the plan and was hoping to be able to easily put them down but I'm having a terrible time trying to cut in under the platform. Am I fundamentally misunderstanding what I'm doing? Or by converting something made with 2 vanishing points and trying to convert it to an Isometric view I have introduces impossibilities? Based on these measurements will I not be able to see the cut out portion of the platform? (Yes the irony of me counting in millimeters after proudly announcing "I'll never count in millimeters again," in the previous video is not lost on me... what can I say I've been doing it for years and it has served me very, very poorly.. so it's on brand for me.)
Big thanks for any help or insights.
Some clean- up with Tracing Paper and another try from elsewhere on the internet. Think I'll try to copy the other examples in the video before attempting making my own forms with the templates. (Thank you, for uploading those! I tend to get in trouble when left to my own devices.)
