Rachel Dawn Owens
Virginia USA
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Kwame Alexander
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added comment inDigital Painting in Grayscale
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Here are my three assignments, plus a bonus. The portrait took an obscene amount of time to finish.
I actually did the bonus first.
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You would probably enjoy this assignment more and take less time on it if you focused on designing rather than copying the reference. There’s a lot of camera distortion in that 3rd image especially that you managed to draw it exactly the same.
Think about forms not features. Work big to small. Start with simple forms. Boxes and cylinders. Then the rest is just about shadow design and edge work. Don’t worry about details until the very end.
I think you would get more out of this assignment if you focused on simple forms rather than coping the reference.
thanks for sharing and nice work challenging yourself with these complicated subjects. Keep it up
Heres a couple of study pages that might help you out:
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Imagining terrain from blank is harder than I thought.
I realized after focusing more on some other area for awhile, I get lost what the previous forms supposed to be in terms of whether the planes were supposed to be roofs or walls so I ended up tone the walls for clarity.
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8h
Woah. This one is fun
@androida
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9h
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One point perspective room with an impractical sink (or very practical if there are any dirty books) and a cubic ... cat?
I noticed that the perspective lines easily come darker and darker while going back and forth. Perhaps the book case and couch took too much of the room - could've fitted in more things but I stopped here to not clutter everything up too much. :)
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shat you got so far is looking good. The boxy flower in the window is my favorite part.
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Maybe add a cast shadow and a 5th value
Mason Stroud
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17h
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I feel like I can definitely push the gesture WAY more, and need to explore more shapes. Now that I've looked at this drawing again after 20 minutes, they seem flat. I also could not figure out how to draw that last seal... It looks too much like a strange dog haha
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9h
Haha I like your sea lions. Maybe use some more straights to balance things out.
Here’s a few tips I made for other students that may apply to this as well:
@gecko_cs
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14h
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This is my first attempt at levels 1 and 2 before looking at the demos. This is the one i've felt the least confident with. I struggled with some to visualise the shapes and get them right, focused too much on the proportions, and felt some of my old habits coming through. I also didn't feel I got creative enough with level 2, and that I was focusing too much on them looking good instead of having fun. I will definitely be trying these again after watching both demos.
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9h
Wow. Your shapes are so dynamic and have so much form to them. These are great for this assignment. Continue to push the designs and iterate to your heart’s content. You’re running in the right direction.
Keep it up!
Angelica
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I did the objects I did in the last assignment. They were all quite square so I also did a jug because i wanted to try something more rounded. I did the first ones with a ruler and t square and the jug I draw mostly freehand.
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Super awesome work laying out the rounded box on that first page. Putting a smaller plane above a bigger one is exactly the right thing to do there. Perfect!
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This really pushes your brain to be constantly aware of and measuring proportion. I can feel the gears turning in my brain. Next I would guess is translating the information here into a box distorted in perspective. Thinking about how things line up in different views really makes you aware of exactly where certain points are in 3-dimensional space in relation to each other.
Working in a process that has multiple stages, refining as you go has me practicing a few skills I have neglected a little too much up until this point in my artistic career. Line quality I need to put some hours to practice with. Recently I’ve been slacking on that final stage of moving to a carefully execution and refinement.
Maybe I should have chosen something boxier but I felt like I was challenging myself such an organic asymmetrical object, and went pretty well. It did take a little bit of time and a lot of taking measurements with my arm extended.
First time using vellum. Quite fun. Will try some more soon, simpler ones though.
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9h
I love the way you layout your sketchbook pages. These are some really nice studies. Looks like you got a lot out of this exercise.
@rdpman
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I feel I am missing something but I am somewhat happy with how these turned out
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9h
It looks like you got it
