Video: How to Draw a Box (to help with the organic perspective exercise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mxQxWdLo9Y
2015-03-07 23:55
Uncomfortable
MintGreenTeaLeaf
2015-03-08 03:48
Thanks for the videos this will definitely make the boxes I have to draw easier to understand (the Y exercise especially as I have been having trouble making the lines of my boxes converge correctly this part was extremely helpful). This video has given a lot to think about and will definitely come in handy as I complete the extra credit exercise.
PS: I found some videos by a youtuber called moatddtutorials that reminded me of some of the stuff we are working on here
This video has some information I found interesting on organic perspective it helped me understand some of the concepts of the first lesson :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynxpq0E3Suk
These videos by the same youtuber also provide some intresting information on organic perspective and some infomation on analytic figure drawing towards the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ektQPOQ9HeM
This video especially around 3:30 reminded me of excercies 2 of lesson 2(The organic contour lines excersise) it also has information that might be helpful for elipse drawing (specifically the funel excersize) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHefdroQdDo
Some of his 10 minute drawing tutorials have some useful information on perspective also.
I wanted to point his videos out because some of the stuff he teaches is similar to your style of teaching he focuses a lot on perspective and analytical figure drawing. I found his videos very helpful maybe some other people might find them useful as well. Here is his gallery if you want to look at his work http://le-mec.deviantart.com/gallery/.
DrMonkey68
2015-03-12 16:48
Oh, great, thank you for using my technique, that's awesome :D
I better get going on lesson 2, still a lot to do (struggled a bit to make my organic shapes look 3D the way I wanted but I'm getting there ;-))
lost-in-technicolor
2015-04-19 03:16
This video was great, thanks! I like the Y technique a lot. Going to start the 250 box challenge, finally.
Uncomfortable
2015-03-08 04:29
That was rather interesting. He definitely runs with boxes a lot further than I have in the past, and it's neat to see him apply it to the figure.
It makes sense though that a lot of the exercises I present here come up elsewhere, because for the most part they're what I was taught. When I started this subreddit, I pretty much only regurgitated the lessons I was taught by one specific instructor. It wasn't until more recently that I started putting my own spin on it. I'm kind of curious as to Mark's educational background, and whether he came up with those exercises himself, or if he was educated as an industrial designer, or if he is a product of the entertainment design scene in Los Angeles (where I studied, albeit briefly). It's definitely neat to see those exercises and those concepts expressed with those small, personal shifts.