Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

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Assignment - Melted Pancakes with Philip Dimitriadis

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Marshall Vandruff

Philip Dimitriadis

in The Perspective Course

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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!

Tori Tempo

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I did not Want to see that

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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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16d

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!

Jacob Granillo

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16d

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 😋🥞

@sweethouse

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23d

Filippo Galli

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1mo

Martha Muniz

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14d

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.

Lenserd martell

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1mo

C B

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2mo

I did a couple of these with a time limit of 25 minutes.

Leil Yaghmaei

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2mo

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.

Kai Ju

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2mo

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…

Negla Haykal

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2mo

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.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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2mo

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.

Katie

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2mo

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

J. Menriv

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2mo

Melted Pancakes 1

Rachel Dawn Owens

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2mo

This is a good one

Viacheslav [ki-Vi] Polianskii

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2mo

Fast sketch of ideas without idea) pancakes + small blobs

Miqdad (Mick Dad) Ali

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2mo

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.

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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2mo

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

Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)

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2mo

Looks perfect!

@maggieb

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2mo

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.

Philip Dimitriadis

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2mo

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!

Patrick Bosworth

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2mo

Excellent work adapting the assignment to your comfort level. This is looking really good!

Shayan Shahbazi

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2mo

at first I was not so sure but then I wasn't sure at all. however this is a really fun warming up and I really enjoy them. hope this is correct.

Shefali Garg

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2mo

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.

Jesse

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2mo

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

Moka

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2mo

This is what I have done so far but I want to spend more time on these in the future. Thank you Phil for this great exercise!

Ayesha Mahgul

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2mo

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