Daniel Cherng Chair Demos
Daniel Cherng Chair Demos
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Daniel Cherng Chair Demos
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Sita Rabeling
Did more studying to turn the chair ‘correctly’, so worked less on designing. Sometimes I think I’ve understood a bit of perspective and sometimes I doubt it.😅
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We sit down with Daniel Cherng to watch him draw complex chairs entirely from imagination. You will see how to use simple box and ellipse structures to set up a solid base, which allows you to skip tedious intermediate steps. Daniel shows you how to find the center of gravity, place wheels accurately, and carve blocky shapes into curved, ergonomic cushions. We also cover how to design armrests and hydraulic cylinders while keeping your perspective accurate. Finally, you will learn how camera distance changes the proportions of your subject. Daniel demonstrates how a wide or shallow footprint makes the exact same chair look completely different depending on how close you are.

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COMMENTS
Marshall Vandruff
Drawing from imagination starts with simple geometry. You can build complex objects by sketching a basic box and ellipse structure first. Once you establish the perspective, you simply carve away the blocky shapes to reveal the final design.
@olddungeonmaster
Another way instead of guessing the caster placement of the 5 points. Is to use a pair of dividers my favorite tool because it's fast and accurate. I would love to know what diamond we are looking for? In making the oval and the rules of layout for the box placement of the flap. Learning the how and why is my happy place over vague instruction. Or possibly I did not hear or listen close enough.
Angelica
25d
Great demonstration. It was fun to draw along. I tried doing some chairs of my own as well.
@patsckan
1mo
Injoed this task)
Josh Drummond
A few simple, quick chairs. I tried to queue them in a small screen but last control of the convergence.
Ariadne
1mo
I'm using this exercise to continue the dram studio project (i didn´t posted yet because when i finished it the critique was already posted) the house has two floors and the second one is the studio there below are the main drawning (i´ve done using the measuring methods i´ve learned in part two and rulers) and the concept drawnings i used in the main one i made in part one and two of the course
@patsckan
1mo
Cool project . I use a silicone non-slip mat under my iPad.
Mon Barker
1mo
Been playing Zelda ‘Tears of the Kingdom’ with my kids (a dangerous distraction from perspective drawing practice) and we’ve been building some weird and wonderful contraptions ideal for this exercise. Here are two Zonai wheels attached to two Zonai hover stones with some fish for spin atracks. Great to mimic Daniel Cherng’s demo and I tried a quicker version just drawing a box with no horizon or grid (second image bottom left) which was a good progression step from the cubes lessons.
Michael Giff
As a reward for drawing a 100 cubes we're going to skip the intermediate steps...., yeah.... I'm not ready for that T_T After a few disastrous attempts I decided to look for a more simple chair which led me back to one of my childhood books "How to Draw the Marvel Way" and return to my very fist nemesis!!! That stupid chair in a box!! Still can't build convincing boxes and thus... can't really build a convincing chair. Spent so much time just trying to get the lines to match it's really hard to focus on proportions and camera work. I screen grabbed all the examples in the Square Set's Depth Video; think I'll trace over them a few times and see if that unlocks anything in my foggy brain. Also thinking about looking at some comic book panels and trying to copy the foreshorten squares of the ground-planes and then try to set up a cube around them. I need to find a way to learn the concepts while being an awful draftsman because right now it feels like I'm constantly focused on the wrong things while doing the assignments and demos.
Sita Rabeling
Did more studying to turn the chair ‘correctly’, so worked less on designing. Sometimes I think I’ve understood a bit of perspective and sometimes I doubt it.😅
Michael Giff
These look great. I've had.... let's just say an interesting time with it XD. Been trying to follow along with the demo to create the scaffolding but it just creates soooo mannnny lines!
Dermot
1mo
Marshall and David, thanks for this great demo. Although from imagination, Daniel clearly has an understanding of chair detail. I enjoyed watching the drawing build from perspective blocks. Lots to absorb. Thanks. :)
@rdpman
2mo
This is probably the coolest demo of the entire course. I enjoyed a lot of the other demos but this was truly great to watch
Kai Ju
2mo
The thing he did with the square inside the square to find that first ellipse blew my mind! I watched the 1994 perspective videos and even dabbled with Robertson's How to Draw and I could never get ellipses right... who knew that such a simple trick could really help with that. Amazing! Thank you for the demo :)
@olddungeonmaster
It is interesting yet I’d like to know the rules for layout of the square to determine the ellipse placement.
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