Drawing Basics
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How Perspective Works
Bonus Content
Mike Mattesi is back with another lesson on shapes!
This time he shows us how the shapes we choose to use in our composition will effect how our audience feels.
He gives us his reasoning behind why shape composition is so powerful and gives examples of how it’s used in major Hollywood movies.
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Cas
2mo
it would be super helpful to have an assignment for this like mike mentioned his students doing, is there anywhere we can find that?
Jean-François (Jeff) Durix
3mo
A great reading about those topics is actually the book “picture this” by the Molly Bang which I am reading again triggered by this section of the course
Lynn Fang
3mo
If there are more detailed courses on improving shape design and composition, I will definitely sign up.
@pedrobranco
3mo
The Death Star is pretty interesting.
It's a base so a "friendly" place to the empire's troops, while at the same time looking grey and lifeless. It's clearly a military contraption being effective in design and having no unnecessary artistic flair. It's also indestructible unless you hit a very specific spot, so it's about as stable a construction as it can be. The circular shape fits very well in this case.
When it fires its laser. The beams converge into a point creating multiple triangles or, when looking at the general shape, a neon green tip that protrudes from the grey circular shape. Since it destroys planets, it's as aggressive as it can be.
Funny how simple old Star Wars is in its designs.
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
Author of Force drawing books. My focus is teaching how you can express yourself purely with line and gesture.
