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Michael Giff
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14h
added comment inEyeballing Proportions - Demo 1
Hooray for another demo.
I guess my biggest problem is correcting mistakes. The way you were able to fix that back fin is what I envy the most. Took a look, corrected a couple lines and moved on. I would have spent 20 minutes erasing/redrawing/erasing/redrawing, gritting my teeth and pulling out tufts of hair in the process.... is there a membership fee to join the bald brotherhood?
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I don't know how to construct a perspective grid. Any help on that?
Hey there! I didn't know how to draw perspective grids either so after snooping around I found this video to be helpful enough to get me started on the assignment. https://youtu.be/5lPfz3BFxCM?si=gxcHwvhNP6o-58nd You can skip to the 7 minute 44 second mark if you're just interested in the grid making.
Dermot
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4d
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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.
I have the exact same questions... maybe we should set off some flares, create a smoke signal... maybe a big SOS sign with some rocks?
Michael Giff
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5d
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Has anyone had any luck printing out the downloadable graphs? Lines are too faint in default, I tried changing the contrast and switching the colors to black and white in a photo editor but have had no luck getting anything usable.
I printed a couple out to help ya. They look normal. I can see the lines just fine. Printed one from the low res and one from hi res folders. I don't know how much this helps though, lol.
Michael Giff
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17d
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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17d
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.
