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Michael Longhurst
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Really fun one, but really challenging. For the objects, I started with memory, then if necessary did an additional drawing using the reference to get a better understanding. Then imagined different angles with only previous drawings visible. For the people, the first 4 were different angles, but same eye level. Then I tried 2 with different eye level which seemed much harder. I tried doing gesture under these and then added the structure, so they came out a bit messy.
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I used a few comic/ graphic novel artists for my master studies. The other three pages are from imagination. Some better than others. Still trying to get a handle on drawing the motion, not the shapes/outlines. Also struggled with some snowman effect. Fun project though!
Michael Longhurst
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Here’s my torso boxes from the photo references. I wasn’t sure on #8 so also uploaded the reference for that one. If anyone has any advice. I think the pinching between his left hip and torso wasn’t making sense to me.
Julian Müller
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Thank you for the course, I feel like this was an incredible ratio of value for money.
I had a thousand questions going in and I feel like you answered all of them, even if I'm still sorting the methods and techniques in my head. Three weeks into watercolor I feel way more confident in the medium than ever before, and there's still the Watercolor Realism course ahead...
I did a car from Pexels as an assignment, since you do so many of them :)
Wow, that looks great. Really impressive how you kept the colors so contained in each object.
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I did some more dog shapes inventing my own grids, although the head got a little funky looking almost straight ahead. Then I drew a drone that I did orthos for a while back and played with the grid lines to make buildings below.
Caden Young
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I struggle with drawing stuff too vague a lot of the time, so assignments like this will hopefully help. Any critique welcome :)
Nice job on these. They look really expressive. You’re going to crush it when you get to the gestural perspective as you’re already manipulating the boxes to make the forms more organic and lifelike.
J M
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I am once again shocked and bewildered to find that the process of trial and error involves... error...
The seals exercise was already a struggle because the idea of capturing the energy in the drawing rather than the contour/proper proportions is so foreign to my brain, so this project was super hard.
I think overall it took me 3 weeks to wrap this project up—that's including a long break that was needed after burning out. After attempting and "failing" at the first few poses, I really was in the slumps and needed a mental break. I did some drawings here and there but nothing related to this course.
Overall—I feel a lot better. I don't think I particularly "improved," but by pose #24, my output was much quicker and I felt more comfortable, even if the drawings themselves are not any better.
Shoutouts to @Melanie Scearce for the words of encouragement—I needed that one push to get around this project.
Onwards!
Those look great. Good work keeping with it. Personally I try to mix up what I’m doing in the course with other drawing so I don’t always feel like I’m doing assignments. I also started this course late, but it’s nice to feel like I can go at my own pace and work assignments when I’m in the right mood. Since I’m not great at gesture drawing it can sometimes feel a bit uninspiring to do, but I’ve been trying to do a little each week and have seen some improvement.
Michael Longhurst
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This was a pretty fun assignment. I tried to make the building more imposing by having it lean forward. Also by placing it higher on the page so the view is looking up at it. I’m undecided on how much the distortion of the towers helped that, but I had trouble finding a convincing way to make the cylinders lean.
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This is amazing! You nailed the imposing feeling with the design of the castle, the composition, and the colors.
If you wanted to take it up another level, maybe add some variation to the colors in the windows. I’m not sure every light in every room would be identical. Some rooms might be dark. Others could be dimmer lighting.
Creating some variation there could add some more life to your awesome illustration.
Dermot
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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.
From what I can tell, you have to look at each grid and analyze what the vanishing points are doing. For example, on grid one, blue is vanishing in the top middle of the page. The way I looked at it, I saw that as looking at something from below, as you look up the line converge the higher up you get. The green point is in the lower right, but still on the page, so if you’re drawing a cube, the side that vanishes into the green point is going to be foreshortened or you’re looking at it from the side rather than straight on. The red point is a little off the left side of the page, so that side of the cube is going to be the side that you see more of, or that you’re looking at closer to straight on. Hopefully that helps.
Michael Longhurst
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I did one airplane based on the orthos from the video. Then since I was inspired by the geometric animals in the video, I wanted to try that with my dog. I think I made the head and torso a little more complicated than I should have, so each were pretty different to map out. I used tracings of them to put them together. I’ll have to keep working on it and fill out the rest of the body and try other poses.