Mar '19

Nude Figure Drawing Daily Practice 3

Sunday here in my time zone, so i tried to get away from my computer and hanged out at the coffee shop with my sketchbook.

Male/Female Proportions (trying to draw from imagination):

10 1-min poses of gesture drawing:

Mar '19

Nude Figure Drawing Daily Practice 4

I think this is my most productive day for practicing: gesture drawing, full figure drawing,... Although I also did some gesture drawings today (actually a lot of them), I mostly do it by pencil-paper so I think it is wise to keep update post short and to not spam photos of gesture drawings here. So I'm only posting full figure drawing and skeleton with cylinders to keep it organize.

Cylinders, Skeletons, Action line, Joints:





Full Figure Drawing:

I actually like this pose a lot so I decided to also give it a try for full figure drawing.

Mar '19

Keep at it! I can see you are getting the concept.

You can compress the gestures into a single jpeg to post them up and let people see your progress. And keep in mind that you can post these on the Saturday live streams for Marc to point things out to help you, he really likes to help out with the early classes and make sure people are on the right track.

Lookin good.

Mar '19

Hello!
This is a good start! Im glad that you got back to artschool :blush:

Your mesurments on full figure drawing look good! :wink:

The only thing that i'd like to point out is when you draw those cylinders try to represent the actual Volume of the form by lightly drawing the entire elipse inside of the cylinder and then tracing the part of it that is facing us :>
I did an example on the right.
by drawing elipses inside of the cylinder you will figure out easier the direction of the limb in perspective.
And dont forget that the action line it represents the entire flow of the gesture, it is not always the spine itself.
hope it helps
and keep it up! :smiley: dont stop

9 days later

Apr '19

Perspective 1 Assignment
I finally got the time to do the assignment again. Sorry for being absent recently. Here is my room which was drew in 1 - point perspective. I haven't finish it yet but it has been a long time since my last post here so I will definitely post today to keep my term 1 up to date. I will finish my room later with a little twist to it.

Apr '19

Good stuff, I like the led rings, that will be a fun light source to work with. And it seems like you have chosen to keep your field of view nice and small, a good choice to prevent unwanted edge distortion.

Apr '19

Thank you! I will update the drawing of my room as soon as I can to get more feedbacks.

Apr '19
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My room doesn't have anything interesting for me to draw. So I decided to completely transform my room into a wizard/witch theme room. The one on the left is actually where I sit everyday and do the creative stufss :sweat_smile:. So I guess I finished 1 point perspective draw your room assignment. The only thing I still concern is the perspective of the telescope on the right one. If I try to draw it using perspective, I will have a weird result with a telescope doesn't look like a telescope. Any suggestion? :grinning:

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Apr '19

Here is the full-size image of witch/wizard room

Apr '19

The telescope wont be drawn in 1 point perspective because it simply does not fit the requirements (vertical and horizontal lines at 90deg), it will be rotated into its own perspective grid. I would recommend just leaving that out for now until you are doing the later perspective classes, and then add it back in.

The round objects that you have chosen to include on the floor and the cauldron are not drawn properly in perspective for the vp that you have. Perfect circles drawn in 1 point perspective on any plane besides the rear wall x-y plane are surprisingly complicated things to deal with. You have to establish and keep consistent what is a perfect square at all z depths of your image and then place the circles within one of those squares. It really complicates things.

Maybe just leave those out for now, or you can head down the rabbit hole of madness (I recommend it, its fun down here.... we have tea...) and start watching more videos about it. Here is a pretty good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBVKdd6efs

And I know that Marc goes into it in one of the classes, and on some of the streams, you can look there as well.

And the last thing is that the deer head that you have mounted would still have depth, so you would have to draw all of that out, again a very complicated thing to do. Go for it if you want, but you can also wait until I want to say term 5 when animals come into play.

If you want much more detailed help with this, and of course the paint-over, I would recommend you put the image in the Saturday Facebook stream and Marc will point out issues and solutions in real time, super helpful.

I really did like the initial room that you were using from real life. It might be simple but it really is a great study for 1 point perspective.

Sorry about the long post, keep at it!

Apr '19

Thank you for pointing out those things for me. Where can I put the image in the Saturday Facebook stream?

Apr '19

Reply to

PeterH

Okay I just had a glance at your video. And damn I have never thought it is that complicated to draw just one circle in 1 point perspective.

Also, can someone clear this our for me? I'm confused. How can I really apply the perspective knowledge to a painting? I mean I already knew that some landscape/enviroment artists who already mastered the perspective so well that they can draw a scene without any guidelines or v-point. But besides drawing enviroment/landscape/building scene, how does perspective affect other subjects? Do I really need to carefully draw every guidelines from the v-point to draw the things I want to draw/scuplt in perspective (because I feel like drawing guidelines alone is already a ridiculously long process)? And if it is that complicated, how exactly long does it take to finish a painting that has so many organic shapes in it?

Apr '19

There is a Facebook group that you get access to first for the streams, the information for that is in the same place that you download the classes from in a file there. Once you are approved, every Saturday Marc posts a thread in the group very early Saturday morning or Friday night. Everyone makes a response to the post and attaches the images that they want help on. Then later on Saturday he does the stream. He records it and you can watch the recording whenever on Facebook, and eventually he posts them on YouTube.

As far as the aspect and perspective stuff goes when drawing landscapes, yes its just a lot of work. The folks who have mastered it are generally just so good at seeing it that they do it in their head, but if they are doing something weird and complicated they draw out as many guidelines as needed.

And isn't is crazy how much you need to do the ellipses? It actually gets way worse when you are trying to flip things accurately in other directions and do things like objects on hinges at weird angles. Once you learn it you can of course use 3d software to just cheat and get it done fast. I hear over and over how that is what most professionals do now just to not waste time on massive amounts of drawing.