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!
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 😋🥞
Nice! Looking very solid. Remember that the top/bottom faces will flatten as they get closer towards the horizon line -- I see you're keeping an eye out for it, but just watch out with the pancakes on the left side of the page, as they could use a bit more flattening by the HL.
Hi Marshall! Sorry these are coming in so late. They're a little rough, but I wanted to post them anyway! Practicing loosening up and having more fun with my work. I really enjoyed these- it's so easy to start complex environments with this approach.
Also, I agree with the poster below about adding post dates to videos if possible.
Hi, can i make a suggestion? I fell a little behind and I’m going through videos from top to bottom but I know they’re not actually listed in order because of the category organization you use….I was looking for post dates or something to try to figure out what order to actually watch the videos in but they don’t have that either… could you guys add something, anything that indicates the proper order you intended us to watch the videos in? I’m going to keep going down the list, top to bottom, since that’s all I can do until I catch up, but it does make things more difficult/confusing. I know there’s probably a lesson I should have seen before this one somewhere. Feels like I’m randomly jumping around topics really.
I think it’s going to become an even bigger issue the more advanced the class gets…
I have tried it and learned many things from this exercise. Not only about perspective but also about composition and understanding depth between the foreground, middle ground, and background. However, to be honest, I still struggle with arranging the composition properly. I will keep trying.
These forms are looking great! I don’t notice any major perspective issues and it sounds like you’re getting a lot out of this.
If you would like a little tip for composition, here’s one:
Find an ‘S’ path through the landscape. Guide the viewers eye and take them on a journey around your world.
I know i butchered some of your lovely forms here, but I hope it gets the idea across.
My attempts! :D I did it in pen, so, kinda unforgiving, but I had a lot of fun, haha.
It's really hard to keep the principle of "squashing as it get closer to the horizon" in mind. But what a fabulous mental work out! >:D
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.
For some reason a bot hid my post (?)
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
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Drawing Organic Shapes with Depth and Perspective
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