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Dermot
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added comment inHow to Learn Color - Draftsmen S4E07
Thanks for the Draftsmen on Colour.
What do you think about the book by Michael Wilcox:
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
(Or How to Mix The Colour You Really Want - Every Time) ?
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It's got good teaching in it, and I first learned about the two-primary system from that book.
My biggest criticism is the title, which I assume is meant to shock us into involvement. It probably would not have sold as well if it were more accurately titled: Blue and Yellow Make Green (but not always).
Perhaps we'll apply this wisdom to our coming Perspective Lesson titles:
Straight Lines Do Not Exist!
Stop Looking and Just Draw!
Stop Drawing and Just Look!
Everything You Perceive is Wrong!
Your Eyes Do Not See Green, Yellow, Blue, or anything else — It's All in Your Brain!
Maybe...
But yes, informative book.
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Hans Heide Nørløv
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Here’s my follow along for Anvil demo 3 -my other drawings are on a comment on Anvil demo 2 along with a question!
These are fun Marshall 👍
Maria Bygrove
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I used the 3D model from the Basics Course so my anvil has a slightly different shape but here are my orthos and the three view points.
In the first one, looking from above, I feel like I didn't foreshorten then anvil enough and it looks very elongated. I think the other two are better. Also, it really helped starting with drawing cross-sections of the envelope box (in yellow) - this helped me to see the box dimensional and not just a bunch of crisscrossing lines ;)
As I was drawing the eye-level view, I started to wonder: how would one do it in three point perspective? Would the third vanishing point be above or below the horizon and what would it depend on? Or would there be two more vanishing points and the anvil would be distorted as if by a fish-eye lens?
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Look at Dave Sakamoto's to see. His example is not dramatic, but it answers the question - the third point simply alters the grid. Everything else is the same kind of thinking as in 2-point.
And remember that "third point" must be "away," that is, In the distance, which you discern by asking which corner is closest.
If it's at eye-level, it can then be four-point, with "away" being both up and down.
But why do that here? This is a tough-enough job for now, and if it gets easy to you (good work by the way), we will soon have opportunities to warp space with warped grids.
C B
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I have drawn so many anvils. Many didn't get seen through to the end because they became lost causes, but here are two I saw through.
The one facing away... It might have been a problem with my measurements, maybe it really is that foreshortened, but the horn is barely visible. I could cheat it by elongating my cube and adding it in...
Dermot
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Asked for help
Quote from the video: "Sketch Examples"
Are you refering to the example sketches you scroll through during the video?
That's what I've been doing or it that considered copying.
Looking down, lines go up
Looking up, lines go down
I assume the main goal of the exercise is to automate the thinking to muscle memory by repetition using the examples in the video.