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You'll be assigned two projects to practice gestural perspective. This first one is a little easier, while the second will be mainly for level two, but I encourage everyone to try both. The main focus is on creativity, iterative improvement, and applying your perspective knowledge intuitively.
Level 1
Warm up with a simple doghouse. Use deformation methods to create an interesting shape. Avoid random deformations; make purposeful changes. If a deformation doesn't look good to you, change it.
Then design a more complex building, such as a house, apartment, motel, cottage, or church. Add multiple parts to the building, like a chimney, room extensions, or separate buildings. Apply the deformation methods to give them personality.
- Make decisions with a purpose but also have fun and explore.
- Follow your gut and make changes if something looks wrong.
- Spend time on the project until you're proud of it.
- Iterate and improve your design; don't just copy my example.
- Practice multiple times to make it easier.
- Focus on adding gesture and personality to your forms, not just accurate perspective.
Level 2
For level two, try designing a tree house. This is trickier due to the interaction between organic and inorganic forms, more complex design problem, and lack of a solid foundation.
Deadline - submit by July 9, 2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Enjoyed level 1 - started with a building and ended up doing a race in a rogue Justice league universe! I will try and complete the tree house design before the deadline - will be missing the torse exercises though. The deadlines on some of these assignments are pretty tight, especially if you have a day job. And this 9th July deadline combines 4 assignments (2 projects X 2 levels) - request to please spread out the assignments if possible _/\_
I started unsure, but actually had quite a lot of fun along the way. There's errors, like how the right side of the bigger building probably looks more cramped than it should. Any idea on how to judge how much samller things should get as they move away, when they're not the same size? Wondering if it's mostly intutition.
Another question for you all: does it look like the twisty slide is inclined so that part of it is underwater? I think so but not sure how much of it is submerged in water. Perhaps just the last bit?
More generally, I actually struggle with this problem often where I'll draw things and they don't look like they're grounded on the floor and appear slightly tilted up/sideways (see drawing of box below) Any advice on how to ensure that things you draw appear to be on the ground plane? My guess is that it has to with making sure your VPs are on a horizontal line i.e. the HL should be actually horizontal...
Great job! I love how your buildings look like they’re made of jell-o. Maybe it would be a fun idea to include another fish that bends and twists like your slide does :)
About your ground question. With your big building this works very well. For your dock: the poles on the water side are quite bent, but to be bent like this, I think the line/length of your dock should curve way more. Hard to explain, do you know what I mean? I’m just a learner no expert!
Both doghouse and complex building assignments were very challenging for me. The buildings I drew first several times did not look good. Some things (proportion, balance, rotation, perspective) were always off. For the complex building, I did not feel like I would ever get it right, so I was drawing a bunch of drafts on many sheets of scratch paper. When I unexpectedly drew a building that could work, it was drawn on water-damaged scratch paper.
Hi Ihori! Sometimes drawing on a piece of scrap paper helps to take the pressure off :) I’ve had the same happening!
Your row of buildings looks fun, bending and stretching. My pointers would be: 1) your left and middle building seem to have very different angles. For the left building it seems like I’m looking at it from a low level, looking up. For the middle building, it looks like I’m looking at it from a high level, looking down on it. 2) for the building on the right, your roof curves beautifully, but on the righthand side it looks like the walls stop all of a sudden, like it doesn’t follow the curve. I think you could solve this by applying the same curve to the bottom of your house and rounding it out. I’m no expert myself but I hope this helps!
Here's three stages, the idea, the draft, and the second draft. I took out the garage because with the rotation I wasn't sure about the angles but maybe it would work seen from behind more as a car port. Anyway, always feel like the line quality needs to be better too.
My first attempt at gestural architecture. I had a hard time with this exercice (especially with proportions and perspective) and need to do some more...
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Cool ideas! I like the asymmetry in the top left drawing. Keep it up!
Kept it simple - just tried to add gesture to a basic box building. Twisting was difficult - first attempt was just plain distorted. Second was closer to an actual twist. Harder than it looked!
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Looking good!
I hated this exercise. Still it was useful. I am pretty content with the shapes I drew for the buildings. One big issue I have is that I don't know how to do the details in general. Can any Level 2 boss tell me how to approach details. I know how to do the big shapes but when it comes to details I lose confidence. Also I don't know how I butchered the hotel (first image. last is the ref). Actually went to the library and found the ref. It looks more like a library now ironically.
Would appreciate feedback
A first attempt, but I got a little overwhelmed by all the ideas in my head lol.
I think the left part turned out well. I love the look of a pagoda and I turned it in this cute, round main character. Everyone likes this pagoda. But the building behind it is mainly functional, maybe you even have to buy tickets there. It's beautiful, but stern and serious.
Then there was some side story in my head with the little houses with chimneys in a row, they are all cramped up along the road and they don't have access to the nice garden. They are kind of sucked back into the background, into the mountain. The mountain I attempted to draw to symbolise this, did not get the love that it deserved :) Thinking about it, it would be nice if I let the mountain literally eat the little houses, and fold over the top of the houses.. to be continued!
PS: I included the photo that I looked at to get inspired!
Hi, I like your little backstory to the drawing!
Just one observation - To me, it looks like the eye level in your drawing isn't consistent. Overall, the house in front of the tree, the chimney houses and the island to the right look like they're seen from a bird's eye view. But then the tower in the middle looks like we're looking up at it. To be consistent, I'd draw it from above :)
Anyone else, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
perspective is my enemy I think - honestly I can't seem to get into any architectural stuff at all. Really looking forward to the torso boxes project, which is more towards what interests me. anyway, this took a while and I worry that it looks both too wonky and meanwhile not exaggerated enough.
Keep going Fede! It’s hard, but your drawing definitely shows perspective so don’t give up :)
It was hard not to copy the pictures shown as the example and create something else than an another witch house. I tried to move my stiff imagination, but I didn't have ideas for anything more complex.
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Imagination is a muscle. The more you practice coming up with new ideas, the easier it gets over time.
These are fun. Keep it up!
really struggled coming up with something for this assignment, but otherwise it was fun
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These look great!
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These are wonderful! Both of these buildings are perfect for this project. I appreciate your little sketches and the colors are cool.
The only adjustment I would make is a small one-
The ellipse for the ground on the first building seems a bit too narrow.
Widen it to make it match the perspective of the building.
I also added a cast shadow to the ground to make it feel more cohesive.
Overall, great work!
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Nice! It gets a bit muddy for me in the bottom section of the main house -- it looks like the overall form of the house is being squished, but then the doors and window look like they are being stretched. For clarity, a good rule of thumb is to follow the form of the largest form when adding details. Hope this helps!
some of the edges of the house are diverging look out for that overall i like the line quality
Hey everyone, here are my submissions.
While Stan does mention that we should do a few of these I only managed to do these two. Been quite busy lately and ended up not doing many art project.
Funny enough I went in straight to level 2 and ended up with a way blander composition than the level 1 which I just tackled. truth be told I run out of steam really quickly when doing objects. The treehouse in specific, went in with some ideas but when it came to putting texture I just gave up and had no patience for it, I avoided getting back to it for an entire week. Meanwhile I managed to do the first level in one go though and it came out dandy.
Critiques welcome, looking forward to the next assignments.
For the first one: The roof is flat. I don't see any thickness to it. And in the treehouse pic the treehouse looks angled like it is about to fall from that tree. Otherwise good stuff
I don't know how safe I would feel living here. It looks like one gusty wind away from disaster. The zoning laws in this district must be pretty lax.
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Baba yaga!
Fell in love with this exercise. After months of gesture drawing the discovery of the gesture in architecture truly was a bless. Especially liked Level 2 with trees - brought more gesture to overall picture
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Nice work!
Had an idea for and rpg/fantasy town but it didn't really come out the way I envisioned it.
I did some initial planning with a 2H but then switched to a 6B to finish. I really don't like my line quality in the final but I am not sure if that is just the texture you get with 6B.
Don't take photos with a 2H lay in. I barely can see anything. Regarding your idea. I'd scale it down. Start small with one building and the build upon it. Some of you boxes look very unstable. Especially the boxes on the right hand side.
Hi Stan!
Thanks for the assignement.
I had real fun imagining a city that makes no sense 😂
Don't know why my lines look so boring tho :(
Your lines look good. Only thing I might change is the inclusion of more straight lines. The buildings look pretty wobbly like noodles. Add some straights to establish a base for the buildings. But these are just my two cents. Oterwise it looks lovely. Your line quality looks good. I just don't see a clear reason why some lines are light or others are dark. You could e.g. do hierarchy of importance -> make all outlines dark and everything inside lighter
Hi! I signed up for your course at the start of the year and it took me 6 months to catch up! :D There is my first assignment posted, first picture seems loads more stable to me and in general like it works and the other one like it's a jelly (my opinion) how to change it to add more stability to it? Also, when is the summer sale ending?
