Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis - Part 2
Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis - Part 2
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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis - Part 2
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Mon Barker
As a geologist by profession, this assignment was close to my heart. Some great tips by Philip in there and this was a neat exercise for practicing forms, designing on the fly and making things look 3D….lots of little learning clicks as you just draw. These are my final efforts inked over pencil with lots of erased poor designs and dead ends….lost the construction unfortunately. Some discussion in the video and notes on cracks, how they originate and how they are distributed….I’ll have to bite my tongue and spare you the details but to be honest, expert knowledge of subject matter kind of gets in the way…you get distracted by non-visually meaningful logic busts that would only matter to another boffin 😂
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In this lesson, we'll transform basic shapes into dynamic rock formations by extruding forms in perspective. Building on previous work, you'll learn how to pull and expand shapes to create complex structures. We cover techniques like using contour lines to visualize how forms wrap and turn in space, and how to avoid tangents for clearer drawings. You'll explore bending, twisting, and distorting shapes to form organic structures, and add realistic details like cracks and splits. The lesson also emphasizes balancing areas of detail with areas of rest to enhance your compositions and develop your ability to think in 3D.

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ASSIGNMENTS

Give it a try! Try and replicate the process Phil demonstrated.

Start varying it up and extruding in different directions.

Whether you are advanced or a beginner, do your best to add in the cracks and details. It is getting you sensitive to how details conform to forms and we will develop it more and more as we go through the course.

Okay, go draw rocks.

Deadline - submit by Mar 05, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

chekdot
1yr
I keep getting the urge to water colour these assignments and its so fun!!
Rachel Dawn Owens
I enjoy seeing some color mixed in with these assignments. The red monotone was a nice call.
Kelly Keuneke-Marts
I wasn't able to set aside nearly enough time to really explore rock types and shapes, so I went for a more "sandy" approach. Very melted and layered instead of structured. Like a well worn bay. Included my previous assignment piece to show where I pulled and which direction.
Rachel Dawn Owens
That bridge looks epic. Ties the composition together wonderfully.
Stevie Roder
I did my practice run of Environment Pancakes the other day and forgot to post. Hopefully, it will make it into the critique video. As always, this exercise was quite a ton of fun. I was trying to follow along with a reference I found and liked to give me more of a challenge of an Ice Cavern. This exercise was quite a bit harder then the previous ones I must admit but quite fun though overall on learning to put were my horizen line goes and pinpoint my areas at within it. Hopefully anyone can help me out on how I can improv with this new exercise that was given in our disposal toolset. I'm looking forward to practicing it more, though, to get better. Thanks for the fun exercise, Phillip.
@vange
1yr
@culhwch
1yr
Max Long
1yr
My first attempt playing around with the melted pancakes idea in Procreate.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Adjusting those lines around the archway might help with the perspective a little bit
Alejandro MV
It was harder than I thought it would be. I was not able to do the exercise with the same design I did for the previous assignment. I had to make a new one and go back and then start stretching it and adding more detail.
@rupertdddd
Cracking on...
Pär
1yr
Really cool :), and nice to see the fleshed out drawing together with the foundation
Rachel Dawn Owens
This is an epic landscape. Love the atmospheric perspective
Patrick Bosworth
Awesome job! Great use of atmosphere, and overlap! Tons of depth!
Dave
1yr
I am loving everyone's melted pancakes. Mmmmm...
@bumatehewok
Not very rocky but trying to practice extrusions.
Hans Heide Nørløv
I tried to play around with building a rockey landscape, but the thing that exited me the most was the methodical way to build a rock like Phillip showed in the lesson. I first tried a simple shape, and drew the lines that would be visible in blue, and those that wouldn’t be visible in red. Then I tried a more complex shape. It really felt great and it felt like I was understanding the 3d form of what I was drawing. It made me able to sculpt on the paper without much guesswork. I realised that it was basically isometric perspective, and I figured that I could draw boxes as well, so I tried drawing the shape of my house. Drawing the cracks in the rocks looked really tempting, so I had to try it out.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice breakdown of the melted and blocky forms. Looks like you got a lot out of this. I especially admire the rocky drawing on the last image. The blue, sketchy underdrawing with the black ink over top works really well for this.
Bryan Gimenez
a little bit messy I think, but a lot of fun I
Maria Bygrove
Who knew perspective could be so much fun!
Johannes S.
Well, it is one of the FUN-damentals.
Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)
Awesome!
Sita Rabeling
Adding 3 values, nice! 👍
Han
1yr
First image is drawing along with the video, second one is by myself. Since I don’t have as much experience as Philip (obviously), I drew the pancakes shapes with a pencil very lightly to place the general idea that I want to draw, then added the solidity and details by pressing harder afterwards.
Dennis Yeary
Here my attempt at my imagination
@dantheanimator
Having fun with this assignments.
Anthony DeGennaro
Here is my assignment for this video, again it was a lot of fun creating a world like the last one. However some of the perspective seems off
Andreas Kra
Here, I created a cave using the pancake technique. The dark shading in the background seems to counteract the foreground, middle ground, and background separation. That’s something I would approach differently next time.
Andreas Kra
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are charming drawings. Using bolder lines to outline the outer edges of the rocks separates them from the ones behind them. I also love the light dotted line in the middle to keep track of the horizon line. That was a really great idea.
Andreas Kra
Here’s a winter environment drawing.
Stevie Roder
I loved listening to Phillip in this lesson quite a ton, Marshall. I'm most definitely going to be practicing this assignment quite a bit to get a feel for this method. Looks fun to do as well. Looking forward to this one.
Randy Pontillo
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