Jun '20

Good evening! Today I worked on gesture drawing and I think that I get better in every session, pretty happy about that even if I have to work a lot with that.
This is one part of my 30s and 1m sessions

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I also worked on figure drawing trying to use fluidify as less as possible. The first one is a 20 minute sketch and in the second one I spent a little bit extra time to figure out a polish lineart (I don't like it really much, I also don't know which brush I prefer) and try to add the background and a little bit of shadow and highlits. That was really random I have to say hahah due to the fact that I don't have studied that chapter yet, but I would appreciate some comments from you on what I could have done better.

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Than I approached the perspective for the first time and I tried to do some quick studies in order to understand how it works.

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Jun '20

Hi :blush: Today I started working on the 1-point perspective assignement and here is a quick sketch, just to understand what I want to put in this room.

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I have to admit that I'm not feeling comfortable at all with this topic, but I hope to get better soon.
I had problems doing the ceiling part and I tried also to give depth at the window but I couldn't manage it. Let's try tomorrow :joy:
If someone could give me some advices or notice and tell me if something doesn't work I would appreciate it :wink: Have a nice day!!

Jun '20

This is my second try with this room. I'm happy about having fixed the roof problem but the pipe that I put looks a bit akward :persevere:

Jun '20

Hey Chiara, this is looking really nice, I like the addition of the earth in the background!

When it comes to that pipe, I think what makes it look 'awkward' are those intersecting lines. The way you have them right now makes the form look like its almost semi-circular rather than a cylinder. Try drawing through the object, make those intersecting lines a complete circle (or ellipse for this example) and then draw your final clean lines over the top. You'll see that those intersecting lines should look like they continue around the form and not finish at the boundaries of the viewer.

Here is what I mean

Also something else I noticed while doing the drawing that wasn't imediately obvious at first, was that we are looking at the pipe from below so therefore we see the intersection from underneath. So we see more of the underside and less of the top.

Hope this helps :smiley:

Jun '20

omg @chrisarogers thanks!! Now it's really better hahaha
I did not realize that from this point of view we can see a big portion of the bottom of the tube. I really really appreciate that :heart_eyes:

Jun '20

That's no problem at all, it was quite fun to show some critique, I've never really done it before.
I've just noticed something else too, the pipe connects to the wall in a cube shape whereas the pipe is a cylinder. Try making the pip a cylinder all the way through and it should finish off the whole look.
Glad I could help :smiley:

Jun '20

@chrisarogers I tried and after a half an hour it seems a little bit better, but I won't swear it hahaha
What do you think?

I think that from the next week I will work on solid shapes until this will be a distant memory hahah :joy: I have said it already but a big heartfelt thanks :relaxed:

Jun '20

@chrisarogers and now I noticed that the juncions could be even more rounded as you told me, that is just a nightmare hahah I think that I will throw the towel now :joy:

Jun '20

Hey Chiara, please don't throw that towel in just yet, go one more round. Okay so from what I can see you are seeing the pipe as 2D rather than 3D as you draw it, which is perfectly normal without the 3D training, so let's try something else.
Instead of going straight into curves, which is difficult in itself, lets think of the pipe as a cube. I have a series of images at the end of this post to illustrate what i mean but hes how I went about it;

  1. Find Perspective.
  2. Create the surrounding boundary of the pipe cube in perspective.
  3. Create the intersections required.
  4. Break the intersections up to find the centre.
  5. Draw a circle in those intersections, using the edges of the squares are a boundary for the circle.
  6. Refine the outer most line of the pipe with the intersections.

I really hope the way I have done this makes sense, I think it would have worked better with a video but we shall see.






Jun '20

@chrisarogers I can't believe it, I will make you a statue hahah maybe in ZBrush :joy:
You put so much effort to help me, I don't really have words, thank you so much :heart_eyes: Now I understood better how it works. I will do pages and pages with this to master it hahah

Jun '20

So :joy: Apart from the perspective ( that remain a big deal haha ) I resumed with a complete exercise the nude figure drawing and this is how it turned out.

(Thanks @karnav for inspiring me in the design of volumes :smile: )

Jun '20

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chiara.arcidiaco

Great figure drawing, chiara!
I like how you just used gesture lines for the 30s attempt. Your line quality gives it a cool flow!
The idea and execution of your perspective assignment is also very clean and the shading looks (from my point of view as a beginner) pretty accurate!
Correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that cast shadows (as with your bed and the little cupboard) "should" be drawn as harder shadows... Or does that actually depend on the light source...
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this! :smiley:
Keep up the great work! :smile:
Mau

Jun '20

Hi @mau.wamp!
First of all thank you for your kind words, I really appreciated that :relaxed: .
Second I have to say that I haven't studied cast shadows yet so maybe my opinion is not really correct :sweat_smile:
I agree with you about the fact that this tipe of shadow is really hard but in this case (I put below my reference) I think that there is another dim light source from behind, tell me if you agree.
Maybe in my drawing I could have avoid it to have more attencion from the principal light source. Tell me what you think!

Have a good creative day :smile: