Here are my melted pancakes! this was perhaps one of the most fun assignments to get into so far, and I think that may have been because of how easy it feels to just get started. I really enjoyed just layering on different shapes and extruding them. a lot of the time it really did feel like I was pretending to model things in blender.
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Finally got the chance to get back to the course,
First page is kinda messy, but on second attempt got better hang of it, tho I tend to go back to using basic forms such as boxes or cylinders instead of organic forms by the end of it
I struggled with figuring out how much to squash the organic shapes as I got closer to the horizon line so I tried doing this exercise with straight lines and 2 vanishing points. I really enjoyed the process. In trying to cover the page, I found that sometimes I was outside the sphere where my vanishing points give a realistic result, but it gave me a better sense of how much the objects squashed. I hope in a future lesson Marshall will explain why things look wonky around the edges but I will wait patiently for that and enjoy the process in the meantime.
This looks great! This is better than anything I ever did when I was younger! The vanishing points are really close and that creates a little bit of distortion, that's great when you're drawing interiors of room come on when you're drawing a wide angle shot pull those points further away. Good work!
Great exercise. Will have to do lot more of these to get my head around how the horizon line changes perspective. Here are my three submission last of them is done digitally.
What really helped me was learning to draw cylinders through Drawabox they do a great job explaining how planes shift as your perspective gets closer/further from the center.
idk if its cool name dropping Drawabox here guess ill find out :P
Actually found it quite difficult, it got better with speed. i know it contains lot of mistakes, still wanted to share. Plan to spend more time doing it
I've had some project deadlines recently, so I'm just now getting to the latest batch of assignments.
I'm still working through this exercise, but here's what I have so far!
When I first started trying this approach, my drawings felt a bit stiff. Something wasn't quite clicking.
So I thought I'd go back and restart by trying something simpler, to try and become more comfortable with the tools for this task.
I tried to build individual forms, and try some variations including:
• Height.
• Rotation.
• Curving.
• Tapering.
• Crossing the horizon line.
• Twisting.
• Two forms bumping / interlocking.
• Connecting two planes of different shapes.
I like to sketch in quite a scribbling manner, with slower phases also to try and carve out forms or details.
I also tend to build in layers as I move things around and close in on final decisions. (My kneaded eraser is seeing some work lately!)
To move onto a compositional stage of this exercise, I've started to try and fold this type of form building into this sketching process, in particular the slower phases.
Despite a rough start, I'm really enjoying this exercise, there's a lot to explore when playing with combinations.
I'm looking forward to cleaning up some sketches before moving to the second part of the assignment.
Thank you Philip for sharing this appraoch!
I wish I could've done more, but I had different priorities so going thorugh proko content went on the wayside. I still made some time to do these 30 minutes for a few days hopefully in time for the deadline.
I got carried away. I think this is the most fun I had with an exercise ever. The melted pancake approach really invites me to be whimsical and exploratory with composition and space design. I am looking forward to my third attempt. I drafted the first design inside Krita, then moved to Photoshop to clean up the lines. Then of course played with colors because...why not?
Drawing on the ceiling was a challenge for me because I didn't want to flip the paper around to draw it. I also kept confusing my eyes every time I tried dividing the pancakes up.
Here's two more, I think the second one turn out the best, but I'm still not satisfy with the line quality and the shapes. But in terms of perspective what needs to be improve?
I had a lot of fun with the pancakes, I might keep doing more of these :D
The first one took roughly an hour to figure out and get used to the shapes, 30 minutes seem to be the sweet spot for me when it comes to working on these. After that point I can start extruding to make the forms more rock like and complex.
I want to work on getting more interesting shapes, because I noticed that I tend to default to using the same basic forms. So that's something I'll keep in mind for the next few studies.
Thanks a lot, Marshall and Philip. The pancakes made studying perspective a lot less daunting for me.
💩 was hard, but fun. I didn’t understand how to place these in perspective. Like the roll of quarters, except on the exercise. Each one took me abt 30 min. 8.5x11 paper and 2HB pencil
It’s not a race. It’s ok to take you time with this. Perspective is hard.
So far this is looking like a great start.
Overlapping some of them will also help with the illusion of depth.
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Drawing Organic Shapes with Depth and Perspective
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