slavingia in the post "Drawing Boxes: Getting More Advanced. This exercise should help those of you who want a slightly more rigorous way to develop your sense of 3D space."
2016-12-12 03:40
please tender your resignation by end of day
slavingia in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"
2016-09-09 00:16
Hi! No rush on feedback for these.
I did 10 more thumbnails, trying to keep your feedback in mind: more foreground elements, a larger value range, and more thirds and less halves.
I also tried a couple different ways to do thumbnails, delaying the blending to later. I found that using the hard colors made me get to a concept faster than random foggy swathes. I did alternate though, since it seems most others go from abstract to concrete...)
(If this "extra" feedback is a burden, since it's for a lesson already complete, just let me know and I'll stop :))
slavingia in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"
2016-09-03 23:59
Woo! Awesome notes. Thank you so much.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"
2016-09-02 01:41
Thumbnails! Rip me apart. (Oh dear.)
EDIT: I used the Thumbnail Template from here which is pretty simple but useful for setting up the proper masks: https://gumroad.com/frankhong
slavingia in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"
2016-08-29 22:29
Yeah, vertical for the win. My bad there.
Movie stills resubmission: http://imgur.com/a/4TUJ6
slavingia in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"
2016-08-29 20:53
Just to make sure I'm going in the right direction, like this?
slavingia in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"
2016-08-29 18:52
(Btw, I think the website links to the old Reddit thread for this assignment.)
Part one movie stills: http://imgur.com/a/F1WVH
slavingia in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-08-27 18:46
Thanks for the heads up. I'll be switching over to composition next I think, and then coming back to the figure stuff. Meanwhile practicing bits from the first 2 lessons.
I'll check out those new videos and demos soon too.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-08-27 16:18
Here you are: https://imgur.com/a/JKcGs
slavingia in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-08-25 23:23
Gone! Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/5rtzV
I think I did alright, especially when there were plenty of wheels and boxes to make the proportions and forms a little (a lot) easier.
I picked a tough motorcycle image and hit the dirt pretty hard. The perspective and angle of the front wheel tripped me up.
Edit: also my Superfine pen died halfway through it, so I switched to an F.
slavingia in the post "State of the Union - September vacation, and dealing with the overwhelming number of homework submissions"
2016-08-24 00:14
Hi! Some ideas:
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A Slack community for folks to give each other feedback. This is similar to the other subreddit you suggested, though it may be a better format for closer-to-real-time feedback.
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Limiting feedback to non-patrons to once a week, or even once a month (on your end, mainly so you don't dread coming home every single day :P).
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Instead of providing (honestly, absurdly specific blew me away) advice and feedback, maybe provide structured feedback (click
, and read 1, 2, 3 which apply to you, then do 100 more boxes) if you see a lot of repeating patterns. This will minimize your commitment, and maybe even make it possible to "outsource" this outside of your own time as there's less subjectivity going on. -
Asking folks to submit the first two lessons, plus the 250 Box Challenge, as the initial submission.
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Asking for a one-time $1 pledge to go along with the first assignment. I know this goes against your ethos a bit, but in general some increased filter for commitment on their part seems necessary.
You're more familiar with managing this whole thing. But I just wanted to drop some thoughts in here.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-08-20 02:08
Axes, bigger, basic forms. Going!
slavingia in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"
2016-08-19 14:36
Wanted to submit the forms before the full vehicles. Here they are - https://imgur.com/a/cBjIf
The chicken scratch returned a bit, but I tried hard to mitigate it. I feel it pops up when tackling harder problems and goes away as I gain confidence in drawing the more complex shapes.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-11 19:52
Ah, that's a good point. I'll draw boxes (or well, trapezoids) and then turn 'em into curves. The shampoo bottle was a little easier (and hopefully more accurate) because I was able to use a lightly-drawn sphere and then just fill in the top hemisphere, but on stuff like the gatorade bottle and the olive oil bottle, I failed pretty badly.
Good to know and keep in mind as I draw some TANKS ^and ^cars ^and ^stuff ^too ^i ^guess
slavingia in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-11 18:47
And here are the six pages of everyday objects. Tried to split them equally to focus on both cylinders and boxes. Drew bigger. More thought behind each line. Got a little cocky and tried a shoe, which did not go well. The rest... okay I think.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-08 19:18
Here are my new intersections. No need to provide a ton of feedback on these, just wanted to get them uploaded before I start on the objects just in case there's something glaringly off: https://imgur.com/a/kXgyJ
Compared to last time, I think these are much better. That was definitely the toughest exercise from that lesson.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2016-08-07 16:08
It seems like people drop off after animals. I can see why... but I will persist! Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/fUpL6
I struggled quite a lot (this is maybe half of what I ended up drawing), and ended up drawing smaller because my big boxes and cylinders were pretty distorted. Also a little too much chicken scratching, as I really wanted to correct the lines before I committed.
I feel with animals, you can make a mistake and it doesn't look as wrong, or it's more easily correctable (organic) but here, mistakes are not very forgiving.
Anyways, rant over. Thanks for reviewing!
slavingia in the post "250 Cylinder Challenge"
2016-08-03 22:04
Speedy. Thank you. I'll do that before moving on to everyday objects.
slavingia in the post "250 Cylinder Challenge"
2016-08-03 21:40
Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b12norsem915g84/AACuoyth9IMVl-a1yGe9mxt7a?dl=0
By the way, do you prefer Imgur or Dropbox submissions? Happened to be away from a laptop this time, hence DB, but happy to use whatever is faster for you if there's a preference!
slavingia in the post "I dusted off my sketchbooks from when I took Dynamic Sketching with Peter Han back in 2013. Figured you guys might like to see me floundering with the material."
2016-08-01 03:17
How many hours of work (class + homework) was it per week on average? Just curious. Awesome that you're sharing this!
slavingia in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-07-31 15:47
Here you are: http://imgur.com/a/sueKI
As you said about my rhino, "head is dumb," so I attempted another one separately. It was too late, but I did notice the ellipses I added to the body to indicate volume were far too thin. I did another goat with that correction, which I've uploaded separately here: http://imgur.com/a/p9bFF
slavingia in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-07-30 19:17
Hi! I've added four more pages of work, focused on the construction.
I tried to be conscious of:
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drawing through ellipses.
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not drawing anything "flat" - every line should represent a form
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drawing strongly or not at all, instead of some meh lines like before
I think I'm improving, or at least increasing the "floor" of my work. Still struggling with more complex animal faces, like the giraffe's (and still not great at horses', and ew at eyes), so I'm going to work on that in the meantime.
They're at the bottom here: http://imgur.com/a/sueKI
slavingia in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-07-28 02:32
That's really useful feedback. I'll get to it!
slavingia in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2016-07-27 23:27
The going got tough! Jeez, what I would give to go back to drawing creepy crawlies :)
Here you go http://imgur.com/a/sueKI
I especially struggled with fur. Trying to deduce where the blobs should be is really tricky when everything kind of fades together in pictures.
(Especially when a face turns into a neck turns into the body, like with wolves.)
Birds were relatively okay, I think. The rest needs work. Especially the hybrid ones from imagination :P
Finally, a shoutout to /u/Serpes/ for the great resource.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2016-07-24 02:42
Here you are! I've tried to be more aware of drawing each line with purpose, so there should be less scribbles :)
I did have one issue, I thought, which is that some of the bugs are relatively simple (the lady bug, the dung beetle), and so the drawings look very flat/boring. Maybe I just need to work on my texturing more?
I tried a couple different ways to imply shading/highlighting, sometimes in the same drawing, like the ant, so I could see iterate depending on what ended up looking better.
Thanks!
slavingia in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2016-07-19 00:03
Here you are! http://imgur.com/a/kCTfG
I feel that my textures are coming off too flat. I will start on the 25 texture challenge shortly. Construction-wise, I clearly have a lot to work on, but I do feel like I am improving, slowly.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-07-17 01:16
Thank you!
slavingia in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-07-16 18:49
Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/PMN9N
Thanks so much!
slavingia in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2016-07-15 02:21
Whee! Here you are: http://imgur.com/a/76wve
slavingia in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2016-07-11 00:28
Thank you for the amount of feedback you provide. It is absolutely appreciated. I will move onto the 250 box challenge after I go through and apply all of your notes to new rounds of this exercise first.
Thanks again.
slavingia in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2016-07-09 22:02
This is such a phenomenal resource. Here's the first lesson's homework. Can we all just live in 2D?
slavingia in the post "Uncomfortable's Thoughts on the Subject of Talent"
2018-01-26 02:25
Truth.