Jul '18

Thanks, that actually could be the case, it seems a bit too small to me too. I'll consider the scale of the objects when I'll be redoing this assignment ^^

23 days later

Jul '18

Nude figuredrawing

A little foreword: I'm not the kind of person who is doing a lot of studies on human figure, but despite that I found this class to be super engaging and helpful.

I found pinterest to be super helpful with finding reference photos. Not sure if they are 100% royalty free, but since it was for educational purposes, I went for it. Though there are not many images with a naked figure, there are a lot of pictures of ballet dancers where you can still see the body pretty clearly.

This exercise was the most fun to do. I am finally getting a grasp of drawing limbs in perspective (even though I'm still doing lots of mistakes) and I couldn't be happier about it.

Far from perfect, but at least now I remember the approximate ratios of human body.

  • 30 min figure drawing session
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    This is the exercise that stressed me out the most XD. It may seem not as difficult, but there is actually not so much you can draw in 30 seconds (and yeah, all of these are 30 sec sketches). Despite that it was only 30 minute session, I can tell that towards the end of the exrecise I became much confident and tried to pick only those lines that would represent the essence of the pose the most. Definitely need to make these sessions a habit. And in case any of you want to know where I found the references for this exercise, there is an awesome website line-of-action.com. They have a big library of reference photos of models (both covered and naked) in a variety of different poses. It also gives you the opportunity to choose the length for each image.

That is it for now, please feel free to give any feedback, I would really appreciate it.

16 days later

Aug '18

Perspective 1 assignments

I used google street view to do this assignment and I've noticed that images there undergo some distortions depending on how far you zoom in. That is why I had to spend some time to find the correct zooming so that my convergence lines would finally intersect at the vanishing point.

  • Drawing shapes in 1 and 2 point perspective
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    This assignment was fairly easy to do at first (when it involved drawing only cubes), but once I started doing some custom shapes it drastically became more frustrating (at least for me). Despite that, I'm still pretty happy with the result.
  • 1 point perspective room drawing
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    Out of all the assignments from this section this one was the most fun to do. I used the photo of my own room as a reference and tried to make it look like one of the rooms from Horizon lunar colony from Overwatch. I've had a lot of trouble with lights and shadows as you can probably tell, but I hope that the image is still readable.
  • 2 point perspective street corner
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    In this assignment I tried my best to make my lines as clean as possible and sticked to only two values to represent my lights and shadows. Not really sure if my shadows are correct though, so feel free to point out any mistakes if you see them.

As always, any kind of feedback is appreciated, feel free to share your thoughts and advices on how I can improve. See you in Term 2 =^-^=

Aug '18

Hey Ilyas, Great job so far, looking forward to seeing more from you.

From what I can tell there isn't anything wrong with your drawings (Perspective) however something that would definitely improve the sense of space is your line-weight. i.e. bold dark lines in the front and thinner and lighter lines as the items in the space recedes. Hope this helps.

Aug '18

Nice work so far! Your anatomy looks really good already. For the environments, I would agree on the things @znowflakez already mentioned... besides that, your room feels a little bit "stiff" to be honest. I know this is just for exercise purposes but I would recommend you to throw in random stuff, you would find in your own room, like some socks, underwear that's laying on the couch (I don't wanna say you're messy hehe) or small details like that to make the scene more convincing...

Just my two cents on how you could tackle that stiffness :smile: Anyways keep up the good work and the practice! Cheers! :smile:

Aug '18

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ilyas_bolatov

All very good work, your perspective stuff is great, the detail you've put in the 1 point perspective piece is really good (especially love the figures and their highlights). The above comments on line weight are really useful - If I want to be really nit picky Id say the details in the 1 and 2 point perspective pieces look a little flat, but once you take into account the line weight stuff that can somewhat help with that issue (depending on the level of detail you want in your drawing), but that is only if I was being harsh as both of these are really great starts. Keep it up! Can't wait to see more from you!

Alex