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!!

Marsh - 12/26/2011

Horrible Rat

Searching around for lines still, having fun!

Marsh - 12-25-2011

Merrrrry Christmas!

I got to do a bunch of drawing today! Lazy, food coma type of day. Just don't know enough about anatomy and that's what this drawing is telling me. I have a few books, one called The Human Figure in Motion, and the other is Anatomy for the Artist, both of which I should get into at some point in the future. I should start getting into a pattern of reading each day just as I am currently drawing each day I think something like that would help to keep it more regular. I'm enjoying the drawing a day deal though!

Hope you guys have a good one!

Zane - Dec. 24 / 25

Hi! :) :)


I didn't get to a computer the other day, just a sketchbook. The daily purpose was to remind and to enlarge. Essentially, being a busy two days I was just getting pencil to paper. The pig was fun. It is from a little rubber game-piece from something called Pass the Pigs. The piece is about a fingernail in size, very small. I just held it and had a go. I don't know what happened with that back leg!












:) :)

Marsh - 12/24/2011

Hey guys! Merry Christmas!

I'm part Native American, this is type of design that they have on their totems and stuff around here. This would be something like 'raven' mask.

I'm having fun cleaning up my drawings, I think finding out how to use the pencil lightly is helping too, I used to press too hard all the time.

-Marshall

Tony - 12 / 23

Welp, been a bit busy planning the move but thought I'd finally jump in.  I just wanted to spend a few days really getting my head around the cube and tonight just tried to feel my way around it from different angles and different perspectives.  It's pretty obvious that I'm not very familiar with the lines yet - a lot of it feels pretty wobbly haha.  After another day or two of this I'll try to do some of the exercises Kitty mentioned - namely something like this:

And then afterwards animating a box falling through space while rotating in perspective (away / towards camera).

Marsh - 12-23-2011

My drawing ADD kicked in this morning again and I started drawing faces in a simple form, starting to realize you can take these simple things and use them to build into a better drawing, it gets more fun as I'm able to actually put faces on my drawings even if they are this simple.

Windows to da soul, man!

Zane - Dec. 23

Hi! :) :)


The daily purpose is fun.

I realised, quite literally, that I really enjoyed drawing the previous horse and cat (didn't post here) with my wacom. I particularly enjoyed the line shading! So I thought -- let's just do it again! :)

:) :)

Marsh - 12/22/2011

Scribbling around to find lines, should have scribbled more to find a nose that works because that's just ridiculous!

Zane - Dec. 22

Hi! :) :)



Let's dive in!! :) I've been trying to keep up a daily sketch for a couple weeks. I vary it up a lot. Sometimes they're pencil and paper, sometimes they're with a wacom; sometimes scribbles, sometimes just shapes and sometimes I follow drawing books. I try to realise my "daily purpose" in each drawing I do.


Here are yesterday's and today's ... the cats are sketched from pictures except for one -- it and the horse are from Damien Toll's book "You Can Draw".


The daily purpose was to sketch quickly and to attempt line shading for volume.

:) :)

Marsh - 12/21/2011

This is my first attempt at updating a blog via phone, so let's see how this works.

Drawing is a little gnome guy from a top down and straight ahead camera, not good at drawing faces in general but figure I should start thinking about drawing the head from different angles or maybe I should try focusing on one thing at a time...


Edit: no way to resize image on blogger app, so I suppose I'll just wait until I get home to put the picture here

Edit again: there is apparently a way to resize them, just kinda hidden!

Marsh - 12/20/2011

My official posting time is 1:48am so I guess I missed it by a bit, but I'm calling it 12/20/2011.

This is a cowboy that looks like he's supposed to have been leaning on that post to screen left. Unfortunately that was supposed to have been a gun, and this drawing is a guy who's way off balance.

Marsh - 12/19/2011

Tony and I were talking about how to figure out rotating around a cube and to keep the proportions and I came to the conclusion that I had no idea how. So tried a few single point perspective drawings(around step 18 in 'perspective made easy' book) which kinda gave me a starting point, but I'm really no closer to knowing how to now take that same cube and tumble it around.

Cylinders drawn using the technique in this book take some time to divide a cube and draw out, I imagine doing that for every limb, neck, appendage on a character would take a crazy amount of time, so I assume there has to be an easier way, or maybe it's just about getting used to drawing the ellipses at either end of the cylinder then getting comfortable without doing it this mechanical way.

The bottom right is a small staging drawing from "A Fistful of Dollars". Watched it for the first time tonight it was great, sometimes I draw scenes from movies in a very crap thumbnail type drawing like this so I can maybe try something similar in my shots later on. In this particular shot the man with no name enters the scene from behind the second archway, these arches are white, and as he comes in he's almost black next to the white walls, as an added bonus he stands straight upward, so he's not only contrasting in value, he's contrasting in shape as well. You know exactly where to look, I thought it was neat.

Marsh - 12/18/2011

This is probably a more detailed drawing than will be normal, but I think it's a pretty accurate representation of some of the problems that I always have. The chair doesn't make any sense in any sort of proportion. There isn't any weight in the arm, the hands, feet, legs, torso all don't look good. I feel a bit like the head is disconnected from the body, like the body is drawn from one angle and the head from another. Here's to improving!

-Marshall