Critique - Perfect Cubes From Your Mind's Eye
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Thanks Marshall. :3 My neurodegenerative disorder has taken a significant turn for the worse this week, so I may not be able to do a Dream Studio. I’m still going to try apply the concepts you’re teaching in whatever form is manageable hopefully, and hopefully can still participate even if I have to adapt the assignments a little from here on.
LESSON NOTES
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In this premium review, I analyze student assignments to show you exactly how to fix common perspective mistakes. You will learn how to correct your cube proportions by trimming and extending planes. I also break down the difficult process of placing ellipses on foreshortened cubes. We look at why finding the true center of an ellipse is completely different from finding the center of a square.
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COMMENTS
I'm trying really hard to understand this part of the lesson notes
" Placing Ellipses
Placing an ellipse on a perspective plane introduces a classic puzzle. We need a perfect square to get a perfect circle, but we use ellipses to make perfect cubes. When you draw diagonal lines to find the center of your perspective square, you introduce a new challenge. You must ignore those diagonal lines when shaping your ellipse.
The center point of the perspective square is not the center point of the ellipse. Instead, use the square's center point to find the minor axis. This acts like an axle pointing straight through the plane. Then, find the major axis at a perfect right angle to that minor axis. You construct the shape of the ellipse strictly on those two axes so that it touches the four center points of the square's edges. When any curve comes to an axis, it must aim directly along that path while keeping its curve. "
did anyone find where this is explained in the video? or did i just not translate this from an earlier video?
Thanks ever so much again Marshall, I highly enjoy whenever these fun critique videos emerge within each section. I always get so much joy from learning from each input. I am highly looking forward to our next learning of upcoming knowledge of perspectiveness.
ah i'm sad I couldnt find time to draw before the crit. i've fallen pretty far behind because of, well, life, but I still appreciate these videos and everyone's work so much. I am determined to go back and draw another 100 carefully considered cubes especially now that i've seen such amazing and dedicated work. good job everyone.
Marshall, thanks for sharing the critiques and diverging
to two of my many wrongly drawn cubes, the others would have doubled, the video length.
I do appreciate the feedback and will endeavour to work on them some more.
It's more difficult than it looks.
Re- Isometric Cube
My five cent question, Groucho Marx had the right answer, it just won't work !
:)
Ellipse Question
I could be wrong but my impression is that the minor axis follows the same direction as one of the three axes of the cubes. It’s like a skewer through the kebab (centre of the plane). In your example the minor axis follows the depth axis (the one that goes from the front to the back) because it’s just another depth line. You go from the center of the cube using the diagonals and extend the line following the same VP as the axis it’s following. On the side plane the minor axis goes left to right or vice versa and thus follows the X axis. And on the top plane the minor axis goes up and down and follows the Y axis. As for how far you extend it that’s up to you, I like to have it go through both front and back planes to double check how it feels
After doing these I starter to search for squares foe measure when I go outside even tho I'm listening to an audiobook, although it slowdown recently. I still try to visualize when I remember and when I pass a park car, foe example, I try to visualize the square that get foreshortening as it rotates as I move pass it but it's not as easy as the less foreshortening squares. Does that mean I'll have to do those 100 cubes again, @Marshall Vandruff ? Thanks for the critique.
Excellent critique content here. I picked up a lot from Marshall’s comments as well as our fellow cube comrades. Also, thanks to Marshall for giving us a tasty teaser of content to come! :)
In addition, the reference to courageous Daniel and Briton Rivière’s painting was epic!
Thanks Marshall. :3 My neurodegenerative disorder has taken a significant turn for the worse this week, so I may not be able to do a Dream Studio. I’m still going to try apply the concepts you’re teaching in whatever form is manageable hopefully, and hopefully can still participate even if I have to adapt the assignments a little from here on.
Thank you @Marshall Vandruff I thought in order to get the cubes in dynamic perspective I had to convert my cubes to rectangular prisms. I thought the key factor was to avoid making them isometric cubes XD
Daring Daniel🤣! Thanks @Marshall Vandruff ❤️🙏
Daniel,
Great picture of Daniel and the Lions, scary.
It could be the lions were fed that day!
Just a thought.
:)
