Marsh - 01/18/2012

Still doing the same type of stuff! This is cool though, getting 30 seconds to draw something like a head shape is fun, and I think it quickly lets you draw this similar shape from different angles, I think in the next while i'll probably continue to do the same with different parts of the body, for now I'm enjoying drawing the head. There is plenty wrong, but each time a line comes out wrong if I spend a few extra seconds to correct it it helps to build in my mind what's going wrong, or at least it feels that way. Buy a China Marker, it's awesome!

Marsh - 01/17/2012

More heads, and some arms because sometimes on that site they have some poses where you can't really see the head. Maybe i should be trying to draw it from the angle it should be at behind whatever it's behind, probably would be good practice.

Marsh - 01/16/12

started drawing heads from the posemaniacs site, each drawing trying to get the head drawn from a different angle, it's fun!

Marsh 01/15/11

I haven't posed in a few days but i've still been drawing.. here are some that i've been using as breaks from animation:

Marsh - 01/12/2012

Did some gesture drawing today using posemaniacs.com was kind of fun to draw with a china marker a bit again, forgot I had that thing. After watching the gesture drawing lecture at CTN(was his name Alex Woo?), I feel like I have a slightly better idea as to what i'm doing when I try to do gesture drawing.

Marsh - 01/11/2012

biiiiiird.

Marsh - 01/10/2012

Dead Cowboy. Problems with the length of arms in comparison to eachother, where the right foot lies in comparison to the left, the twist of the torso to the hips is off, so if he were lying like this he would probably roll over to SR. Lots to learn!

Marsh - 01/09/2012

Watching a documentary saw a guy carrying his kid through a mall, kinda like this.

Marsh - 01/08/2012

Kinda cheating today and reusing what I just quickly did for my assignment. I've never tried this before, drawing mouth shapes... not sure if it's going to be helpful or not, but kinda makes you think about what's important... If I were to do it again i'd make sure I hit all the most important shapes, I think I might try it before syncing my 2 person.

Marsh - 01/07/2012

Not sure what's with this thing's legs or proportions. Maybe I should look at a dog once in a while.

Marsh - 01/06/2012

Just tried to draw this suitcase shape in succession a few times, so that when it's closer to the camera you see a little less of one edge. I suppose I should have been using 1 point above the page now that I think about that.

Marsh - 01/05/2012

Not really sure what this is, more practice for ellipses I suppose. But really kinda doesn't make sense. Unless those rings surrounding that elongated egg shape are rubber and cross in the back. Let's just say that's what's going on.

Marsh - 1/4/2012

Just trying to figure out how to use the cube when finding perspective for a character. At the eyeline you should be looking up or down at the character depending on where they are in the scene and how tall they are. You can also use this cube to find better placement for the feet, which I didn't do here. or the hands in this case as well. I think moving forward it might be a good idea to figure out things like that before drawing, having a mental image of what i'm drawing before drawing it. Weight on the arms shouldn't be forward like that, unless he were walking backwards, the arms should be back behind the shoulders. All things I think about when animating, but for some reason don't click with me when drawing, maybe it comes back down to planning, and thumb nailing, which is probably what I should be doing in the first place.

Marsh - 01/03/2012

"When you draw, don't doodle but LEARN. Doodling means that you are just spending time doing random drawings, and you are not trying to learn."

From The Perfect Bait, with that said, disregard that eye in the top left.

Keep thinking of squash and stretch in the face, that James Chaing was talking about. Weight is all off, silhouette is crap. Might help if that back leg was back further. proportions are weird too, might help to study some anatomy at some point in my life. So much to do!

Marsh - 01/02/2012

Squarils

Also this is apparently how pictures come out when I upload them from my phone, maybe i'll try to change my settings.

Marsh - 12/31/2011

Missed yesterday! Whoops.

Trying to mess around with starting cubes and carving out a shape from there. Now looking at it, it looks like the body is very large, and doesn't even really fit in the cube, so maybe I should plan what i'm drawing before I draw it.

Givin' a duck.

Tony

Drawing more cubes and branching out into other shapes - still doing perspective for practice and shaded for a point of view light source.  Taking a small break to post this then gonna try and animate the rotating cube!

Marshall - 12/29/2011

faces are hard haha.

Zane - Dec. 26 / 27 / 28

Hi! :) :)


We have international visitors staying with us right now and I have had a very wonderful and full couple of days showing Sydney. I've barely touched a computer -- but instead, just hit the sketchbook before bed each day. I thought I'd scan them in to post even though I didn't draw for today.

One is just of a room; some made-up faces; and a skull with an image from the Norling book "Perspective Made Easy" once again.

The daily purpose was simply to persevere!!

NOTE: Tomorrow I leave for two weeks helping at a youth camp. I have my sketchbook and will endeavour to use it as much as possible. But I will have NO internet!

So you won't hear from me until after Jan. 15 -- have fun Tony and Marsh! x.

:) :)

Marsh - 12/28/2011

light lines light lines light lines

Tony - 12 / 27

Probably not news to anyonelse but I here's some notes on the 'ol cube again.  I tried to draw / animate the cube tumbling in the air in perspective but failed pretty miserably.  Thus prompting me to go back and study the cube 1 frame at a time.

I think you guys know how to handle the cube in 1 / 2 point perspective.  In 1 point perspective you have two edges that line up at the same depth thus creating a face that's "closest to camera".  From that face the edges converge away.  In 2 point perspective you just have an edge that's "closest" and the lines from there converge as it goes away from that edge.

In the case of a tumbling cube, you're going to have a lot of times where there is only a point that is "closest to cam".  When for whatever reason the face or the edge fits in with the 1 / 2 point perspective on a particular frame, then you'll have to apply those rules accordingly.  But otherwise it'll turn into sort of a 3 point perspective.  This is just through observation though and if it's wrong someone please correct me.  But from that point the edges going away from the camera will converge.

So I think a good rule of thumb to start with would be to determine what is closest to camera and build your edges from there.  In the drawing, the point becomes the main hub, the edges connecting to it become the "center" of the three converging edges.  How do you guys usually go about doing this?

Might try recording a cube in the air and studying that a bit - then probably try animating it again.

P.S. I just realized how redundant our posting-the-dates is.  The blog has the date written as well :)

Marsh - 12/27/2011

Heyo! Playing with perspective at my last day of work!!