Nice work Charlie! These are very well done! I can see you are thinking about the vanishing point on your cylinders. One thing to keep in mind is even if the contour of the cylinder is really close to the vanishing point, the contour will be flatter, but it will be really curved at the ends where it touches the side. Fantastic work! Keep it up!

Thanks @Lockenheim! Thanks for the advice, very much appreciated. You’re right. I’m gonna make sure to pay more attention and practice contours. Any advice on how to study and get better at perspective and shapes?

What I did when I was at this part was to always have a can next to my desk that I would maneuver around to help get a better feel for the cylinders. The perspective one and two assignments will help with that quite a bit as well. I did each assignment several times spending an insane amount of hours on my second one point perspective piece. That will help a lot and then there is an assignment in term two about warping. I make physical models for many things as I feel that helps me a lot, even if its something simple like a can. Hopefully that makes some sense. If it doesn't let me know!

Welcome aboard buddy. We’re all in this together! Can’t wait to see how far you’ll go!

Thanks @alwaysneedsleep! This are the kind words that make my day. I’ll be around for any feedback and sharing tips. Have a great one!

¡Pura vida!

That’s incredible advice @Lockenheim. It does make total sense.

I remember making cardboard shapes and playing with the positions several years ago to get them in different perspectives but stopped because… life. Perfect practice and consistency is key. I’m going back to it. Thanks again!

Quick practice of my room for one One Point Perspective. Just getting the hang of things, perspective kind of wears me down a bit. But perfect practice makes perfect so on to the next study.

Again, any advice would be fantastic and warmly received.

Allons-y!

Looks very cool!
The foreground is perfect, but in the distance, you could improve on the width of things in perspective. Like that door looks like it’s 3 meters wide (which is possible, of course). If you look at a photo reference, you’ll see that the sides of the door are probably much closer together.
I hope this made sense :sweat_smile:

Keep up the good work!

Thank you @artistchemist! It makes total sense, and I will consider more and more references in future studies. Thanks again for the kind words and please keep helping us grow.

A little study and my version of "male proportions”, as presented in Nude Drawing - Term 1. Again, you can find some notes and interesting facts on the right of the image taken from the lecture.

Any advice on how to improve is always more than welcome.
¡Pura vida! :relaxed:

Proportion looks solid!
I remember that I memorized where every part lands on the grids back when I was at term 1 ;D.

I see that you don't have pen pressure enabled on the brush size itself, I really recommend to learn how to control your lines even at the beginning.
It's extremely hard when you don't have experience but it will be worthwhile in the end.
I'm pretty sure you've heard line weight at some point, that's something you can improve right now.

@charlieodow I love the simplicity and cleanliness of this 1 point perspective, good work! I agree with @artistchemist the door does look quite wide. also the outer floorboards are quite wide in comparison to the rest of the boards, but that’s just being nit picky. the right bottom corner in the foreground is slightly off from the back wall, if you follow that line all the way to the cupboards you can see that the cupboards look like they are going through the wall. You need to either have the cupboards narrower or extend the back wall further to the right. Alternatively you could give the feeling that there is another room leasing off to the right?

Thanks for the kind words @luke.buersgens! Great advice. I will make sure to practice line weight every day. Any advice on how to implement and practice good line weight when drawing both digitally and traditionally? Have an awesome weekend Luke!

The pen control exercise is a start. It teaches you how to be precise with your lines and the pressure exercise teaches how to control the thickness of the line .
It looks like this:

You can find it in the Art School Term 1 - Assignments.zip under "Photoshop for Digital Production 1"
I used to do this everytime as a warm-up.

I'm gonna link you a couple of videos which explain why you even use line weight at certain spots:
First Scott Robertson, extremely skilled in his job and he also has books which are quite difficult to grasp for beginners, so I would wait a little.


This is a website which is useful for a quick recap:
Lesson 7: Introduction to Line Quality

About learning it:
- You can start with simple forms like cubes and cylinders, depending on what you want the line to convey you might have to add forms behind one another to see an effect.
- Traditional is almost the same as digital, try to be consistent with the lines and experiment a lot, back in drawabox we had a technique called ghosting, it's basically this:

  • You want to draw a line.
  • Try to imagine the line where you want it to be.
  • Now, hover with you pen over the imagined spot and do the hand motion but without actually touching the paper, you do this motion till you really feel confident about putting the line down.
  • Once you are ready you lower the pen onto the paper and do a quick but confident line.

This is the link:
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines

Takes a bit of practice at first.

I love how you study! So thorough with the notes. I'm just starting the course and this is inspiring to see someone who has a similar way of retaining information. Makes me want to put in the effort to make very thorough notes as well.

You’re great Luke! Thanks for all the resources. I love Cntrl+Paint and Drawabox, I’m gonna have to revisit the tutorials. Thanks, this is awesome information to dig in for the weekend.

Your comment makes me so happy and glad @nieszka.ko! I will continue these type of studies for as long as I’m enrolled and be able to share them. It truly helps me to focus and process the information clearly. And sharing is caring. :blush:

I would love to see you progress and grow as an artist. Please be free to share and use the images in your studies as well. Have a wonderful weekend!

¡Pura vida!