Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

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Philip Dimitriadis

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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

Lesson by

Marshall Vandruff

Philip Dimitriadis

in The Perspective Course

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Course In Progress

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Drawing Organic Shapes with Depth and Perspective

Objective: Learn to draw organic shapes with depth and perspective.
Steps:
1. Draw the First Type of Pancake:
  - Place a horizon line in the middle of the page.
  - Start by drawing an organic shape split by a middle line.
  - Freehand two isometric lines, intersect them, and create a rounded top like a roller coaster.
  - Draw the contours over the top to give the shape depth, using dotted lines for additional effect.
2. Draw the Second Type of Shape:
  - Mimic the line from the first shape both above and below the horizon line.
  - Pay attention to the thinness of the ellipses as they approach the horizon.
  - Divide the shape with a line to see through it for better understanding.
3. Practice Stacking Shapes:
  - Draw some shapes under and some over the horizon line.
  - Stack different shapes on top of each other to see how the perspective changes.
  - Always draw through the shape, which helps in understanding and visualizing the 3D aspect.
Timing:
- Spend 20 to 30 minutes per page, or more if you are a beginner.
- Try different speeds: set a timer for 5 to 10 minutes on some pages to challenge your pace.

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

@kotka

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Something about this exercise made me feel super uncomfortable in the beginning. I had to wind back several times in the video to make sure I got everything correctly understood. This is not how I usually think or draw, but after sitting a while with this, it felt somewhat easier. Great way of drawing rocks! I was unsure whether contour lines was part of the assignment, but I saw a lot of students added them so I did it afterwards, too. Probably missed some places.

Melanie Scearce

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Glad you had fun and figured something out with this project! It looks like you got it. You followed the rules of diminution overall, just these two structure stick out to me. Being so close to the horizon line, they might be a bit more foreshortened.

Daniele Olevano

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13d

lautaro asis

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13d

Im as new as you are so dont think this is the only thing that you could improve, its just what I noticed, the really long stretch coming towards us seems a bit off, as in, it doesnt seem to diminish as much as it should as it comes forward, one way to fix that is to augment the sefction closer to us, which is what I did here, but, you could also make the part closer to the horizon smaller

lautaro asis

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19d

Gonna be honest, this is the first exercise that I really didn't feel interested in. The perspective ilusions were hard and it took me time to even start because I couldn't get it. But with this one I just felt like there was something I cant connect with. I made myself do it for the technical knowledge, but unlike with the water, with which I couldn't stop, I was just bored here. I kind of feel bad about it but not as bad as I would feel bored if I spent more time on it :/. Is there anything I got wrong that im not noticing? Thinking about it, this is basically what I did for the water one before doing the flow over it

lautaro asis

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19d

Gave it a second try and created an insultingly inaccurate version of a maybe kinda Machu Picchu thing sorta

@patsckan

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1mo

Patrick Bosworth

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1mo

Awesome!! I love the depth you achieved with these!

Thieum

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1mo

Maestro

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1mo

Debbie Dawson

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2mo

It really took me a while to get my head around this. I think It finally clicked, although my angles are not great!

Michael Giff

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2mo

I think you did quite well. I probably should revisit some of these older videos... wasn't happy with any of mine. XD Kudos to you for keeping track of how open and closed to make your ellipses. They read well.

@antsinyourpants

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2mo

Did this a few weeks ago but just throwin my attempt out there as I've enjoyed seeing what other people make. Didn't quite fill the page as much as I'd like and could do better at drawing through my shapes but I liked how it turned out. The idea of anchoring something to a foundation and constructing up is something I'm going to remember forever. Really amazing tip.

Louise

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2mo

Phew, I found this part 2 “simple and fun” assignment quite challenging, here is my effort, I guess I’m not very good at drawing rocks. But I’m glad I made the effort anyway, ( I’m embarrassed to say that I spent a couple of hours doing it too)

Louise

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2mo

so far I have only drawn the two shapes, i think I’m the only one finding it more difficult than it looks, my eyes keep playing tricks on me, (Im not sure if the second shapes on the left and above the horizon line are even correct?) 🤔 I will watch the part 2 video of melted pancakes again and have a go at a rocky landscape in the coming days.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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2mo

You’re on the right track. The only thing that this would really need is some overlap. Build an environment. That would give your drawing more depth. The forms are fine. You really broke this assignment down and studied it. Great Work!!

Nikki De Backer

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3mo

Here is my first and second attempt at melted pancakes. First attempt I started a bit small and that made the excersize a lot more difficult. There are a lot of small shapes in the second attempt so the composition is a bit messy. I really enjoy the result!

@mcminnjesse

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3mo

Melted pancakes! This was fun. Rather than feeling like I'd been exposed to a whole new system or way of thinking about drawing, this lesson felt more like adding a specific tool to my toolbox: I now know how to stack organic shapes and use them to create landscapes. It was empowering to realize I already knew how to do this - it just hadn't occurred to me to apply my skills in this particular way. It makes me think that maybe I am starting to grasp the fundamentals after all. I gotta ask... the time limit question that came up in the video had me wondering. How long did everyone spend on their pancakes?? I felt like this was going quickly, but I still somehow spent a couple hours on it?? I can't imagine doing a piece like this, even sloppily, in half an hour. I'm wondering if I should switch to a darker brush so I don't spend so much time reinforcing my strokes.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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3mo

It’s ok to spend a few hours on this to get it right. Anything to do with perspective always takes a while. You can get faster with practice. Your pace is fine here. Your pancakelandscape turned out amazing! The addition of the blue shading gives it even more clarity and perspective. You not on got linear perspective, you also got atmospheric perspective in this. Great stuff. Keep it up!

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Melted Pancakes. This made me hungry.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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3mo

🥞🥞🥞

@deadsm

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3mo

Hunger approaching. I like how you used dotted lines to inform the structure! It's so much cleaner than using solid lines that are lighter in tone. I will be using that to draw through shapes from now on.

@chickenbutter79

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4mo

I LOVE THIS! This is a very unique approach that I’ve never been exposed to before. This is surprisingly easy and it’s such a easy method to create environments, which I struggle with doing. I’m definitely going to be doing more of these for fun. The name is amazing too; it makes me very hungry and crave IHOP. But yeah, I feel like when I do these I can just keep adding to it. Even though it’s not part of the assignment, I was trying to focus on linen weight along with everything else we were tasked. This is awesome!

Iman

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5mo

Tried to set a timer for myself, but I still went over and spent longer on it than I probably should’ve.

Jonatan

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5mo

Note: - from 14:30 to 14:54 the subtitles stop working. - At 40:20 I think he says "Don't have to be perfect" instead of the opposite Excellent lesson! The subject/approach was really easy to understand, I can't wait to give it a go, I got to say Mr. Philip's enthusiasm when talking about the lesson and sense of wonder about the things you can achieve with it, commenting on "how cool this looks", etc, is so infectious, was smiling just hearing him talk and show this class.

Tori Tempo

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5mo

I did not Want to see that

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5mo

Took a while off proko (I still continued the assignments I already did plus my own projects, just didn't post anything) I didn't know where to pick it back up, so I just decided to do this one first, I made two drawings for this assignment, but I think I might have stretched the rules of it a bit too much, or not. I would love to know if there is anything I can improve on or anything I did well!

Nassim A.

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5mo

I won't lie, it was kind of a difficult exercise for me. I'm not quite sure I got everything… But I'll give it another go!

Roberto C

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4mo

You are already good at rocks, just think of the pancakes above the horizon line as clouds or spaceships and you'll get it.

Jacob Granillo

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5mo

Good job Nassim and I love the line quality! From what I know, you understood that what's over the eye level is above so you're looking up. And what's below, you're looking down. The next time you give it a go, make it pancake paradise! No matter where you look there are pancakes 😋🥞

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