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Max Long
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3d
added comment inHow to Mechanize Organic Forms
I am really enjoying this lesson. It inspired me to pull out George Bridgman’s book, The Human Machine. I drew a few of the drawings from the book. I drew a couple of Asaro heads in slightly different perspective views. The Asaro head can be found on Sketchfab. One of them, I somewhat joined the mechanical neck drawing from the Bridgman book. The head at the bottom right was drawn from the Bridgman book, combining the head to the neck mechanism drawings using a bit of imagination. Thinking of modern mechanical parts, I pulled up an image of a pneumatic machine part and played around with the idea of a pneumatic mechanical jaw. I have attached the picture that I referenced. I drew 4 images as the perspective was a bit off on the first two on the right side bottom. I imagine that I will be coming back to this lesson a lot. Thanks a lot for the inspiring lesson.
Max Long
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4d
I got Affinity Photo and Designer last week mainly for the posterize feature as it is so much cheaper than Photoshop. Now, I am going to have to figure out if Affinity can do this? My profile picture was actually done playing around with the posterize feature on Affinity Photo.
Max Long
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14d
The Zolly app is fantastic! I need to work on the perspective of basic shapes and this app is perfect for that. I have been drawing cubes using the app. Also, I made use of the 3D model airplane. Two very useful tools! I have attached 3 sheets of practice. On the page with the model plane, I utilized one of the early lessons by roughing out the plane at the bottom left corner.
Sara
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14d
Trying out the app - it’s really helpful! - my drawings are still really wonky - does anyone else get kind of a ‘magic eye’ thing happening with your boxes where they turn inside out while drawing? Started marking the ‘forward corner’ 🤔✨
I like the app. To me, it seems that it will be a great reference tool for basic shapes and the perspective of them, practicing daily. My drawings are also wonky, and hopefully with the repetition of daily practice, my drawings will improve. For improving line work, watch the Straight Line Discipline with Peter Han lesson. I would think applying some of his line exercises while drawing the basic shapes will give extra bang for the buck. I get the magic eye thing with drawn through boxes. This is covered on the Isometric Optical Illusions Assignment lesson. Cheers!
Max Long
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23d
The brow ridge is a rounded tube shape like a cylinder. C curve wrapping lines would indicate the form of the brow ridge.
Max Long
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23d
✅ Purchase the pre sale for the gesture course.
✅Pre order the gesture book.
Now, patiently waiting for book arrival and for the gesture course to start.
Looking forward to this course. Cheers!
Max Long
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1mo
Doodle blobbing…. All of these started with the blob. These are thumbnails, which were discussed in one of the earlier lessons. The whistle (3 doodles) and at the bottom right corner (meat grinder) are 3D images that can be found in the Proko fundamentals course. The blob is an interesting concept that very well could be the way my drawings start from now on. Cheers!
ashley
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3mo
Something I've noticed I have a lot of trouble with is that even though I know these types of basic exercises are important I always try to speed it up to get it over with because it feels like there is no end goal and I'm impatient to start creating. Then once I start trying to get that picture in my head onto a piece of paper I realise I lack the basic skills to be able to do so and so I always end up stuck in this cycle. I'm going to try to stick with the exercises and hopefully, I will be patient enough this time round.
I am pretty much the same way. I never really focused on the fundamentals and it shows. Peter addresses how to avoid these exercises feeling like work at about 13 minutes into the lesson. He recommends doing these exercises as a 5 minute warm up prior to daily sketching practice.
This is a master study that I did last year from the Watts On Bridgman anatomy book and online course. I essentially copied Jeff Watts interpretation of a Bridgman image (master study 😁). Critiques welcome. Hopefully, one day I will be able to intuitively design anatomy like this. Cheers!