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Learn to draw an anvil in perspective by starting with the base box and determining accurate dimensions. This lesson guides you through projecting lines to establish key planes, building the base and midsection, and adding essential features like the horn. You'll refine the structure with curves and cross-contour lines, focusing on line quality to create a professional-looking drawing.
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Here's part 1 of a three-part demo. In this one, I'll be using orthos to draw an anvil from an above-eye view, focusing on building it with solid proportions using a structural box. The next parts tackle the same form from eye level and below to show how the perspective shifts.
First attempt was following along with the tutorial then I attempted to do the anvil from 2 different angles. Really cool to see and do the process of getting the exact (kind of) measurements! The bottom side of the anvil where it comes in was definitely the most challenging for me as well as the horn part.
I followed along to the demo using one of the grids provided: “no cube 04”.
It’s not quite in the same perspective as Marshall’s… and it’s also a bit small because I wanted to fit all three anvils on the same sheet of vellum.
I can't find any provided grid and spent three hours yesterday failing to make my own in Illustrator. Where did you find it?
Anvil 1. Copied the orthos, then drew the anvil without watching the video first. Checked afterwards
I had missed this exercise so I decided to do it. A lot of doubts creeping in at various stages regarding the convergence of lines to a vanishing point but I decided to run with it. The proportions of my anvil are wildly off and also, apologies for the manic lines, as Marshall had once put it.
First attempt. It was hard for me, especially doing it free hand 🥲 So, I just accepted my fate and used the ruler
I appreciate this demo and I will try to do it on my own a well but can I make a request? I’m struggling a bit with the project of drawing rooms/spaces from the previous video… Marshall can you do a demo of placing multiple objects inside a confined space? I seem to struggle with the camera placement and distortion of the objects when I try to picture myself standing in the room…
I am struggling a lot with self-critique in this course (well, in life…) and I was already thinking about giving up here. Thinking I am not able to keep up with you all.
Now this anvil got me back in the game. I think I have never seen one, but I guess mine looks like one ;-)
The proportions are probably a little off, I fought terribly with all my line systems - but overall I was able to enjoy the process.
Eye balling for dimensions. little nerve wrecking, but fun.
video explained all at a nice pace. horn seems a bit short. I am blaming it on the perspective Angle.
Followed Lin’s idea to use the ortho. That helped in drawing along with the video, although I mostly did rely on the instructions.
It’s already hard enough to find the right grid, the proportions, all of it.
It not perfect, but still… Ta-daaah…. :-)
Hey Sita,
keep in mind the horn's cross contour lines are wrapping around it in space : they are simply ellipses hugging the edge (tangent) when drawn through the form.
The only time it meets the edge as a sharp angle is from perfect side view (like in your first drawing)
Hope it makes sense, keep up the good work!
Very nice, very clean! Yeah, I ran into the same hurdle, lots of things to watch out for simultaneously. Sometimes a proportion is right but I converge the lines a little off. Or vice versa.
They’ll lessen and demand less brainpower as we progress with the course and put more into the intuition slot I imagine. :3
That was much more difficult than I anticipated. Especially that last doo-hickie-knotch-thing on the bottom back. Marshall, I think you forgot to include it in the tutorial. And were you singing One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story???
I did not use a grid on this, Its a little off compared to Marshalls.😂I drew a race car the other day and played around with the shape of it by Tracing over the original. I thought it maybe be a little quicker when experimenting. I also attempted one of my Orthos that I avoided using during the course because it was so inconsistent. My other Orthos aren't very consistent either come to think of it. 😂
