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.
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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.
Watching these critiques will train your eye to spot errors like receding divergence in your own drawings. You will get practical solutions to improve your accuracy and prepare for advanced topics like drawing spheres and cylinders.
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Let's review your final cube drawings and fix common perspective mistakes. Getting these proportions right prepares you to tackle complex round forms.
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 !
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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.
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That's up to you.
If you're visualizing cube lines, the medicine is having its effect.
If your visions aren't helping you draw with a better eye, maybe back to the exercises, but it might be best to get back into the game of drawing what you like and putting that awareness to use.
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! :)
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Thank you Jules! Indeed — more to come, and ellipses aren't easy, but ellipses are fun.
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.
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Sorry to hear that Lin, hoping for the best
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
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Myles — a legitimate pursuit.
And it was obvious you were not trying to make them all cubes.
Thank you for your Exploring Spirit —and first-in to boot...
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.
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