Next up is vehicle drawing in perspective.
I went and followed Scott Robertson’s “Basic perspective form drawing” to get an understanding of how to approach the build-up.
It helped me a lot gaining insight!
So, this is my first car drawn after additional knowledge (design by Scott Robertson).
Class assignment with a subject: Create a bridge-like structure with a city/buildings attached to it.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:
After a recent teaching by Wim Tilkin in my class of Advanced Digital Drawing about the proper use of your full capabilities, it rekindled the interest and showed me once again the importance of the ability to train using the right side of our brain.
Following this wonderful book by author Betty Edwards “The new Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, I went and started doing exercises that teach you to shift from the left side of your brain (the verbal and mathematical side) to the use of the right side of your brain (the visual and spatial side).
A first such exercise is by drawing upside-down: where the original is flipped vertically and you draw from it the exact same way.
I decided to refrain from using an eraser and leave the endresult as is, with any faults made.
To show my results I flipped them back after.
New thumbnails, this time with a better grasp of the tonal range without going too far into bright white or towards full black.
The next step is to pick the best striking thumbnail and start adding detail to it, as shown in the second picture.
And finishing it off with mood setting by use of light and shadow in the third picture.
Last thursday we received our second new class for this year, called Prop- & Set-design.
And after hearing what we can expect from this course, I was well excited because these two new classes ( with Advanced Digital Drawing on tuesdays) are exactly the kind of subjects I would otherwise have wanted to learn as next,myself.
Because we will tackle the subject of perspective, an important part in the process of learning how to draw.
Starting with 1point- & 2points-perspectives.
With what I’ve learned so far I decided to try implement it already in an excercise of my own with the drawing of a hallway with pillars, and add the tonal values to it.
I partially followed a tutorial from the magazine 2D Artist.
…and practiced some more today.
And a few landscape thumbnails done as assignment with a timer of 20minutes per drawing.
Today, started with the new class called Advanced Digital Drawing.
We didn’t know what to expect in advance, but it turned out to be bullseye once again!
It is about learning to make a concept drawing,but more importantly, about the fundamentals to build-up such a drawing.
And we started right off with tonal values and thumbnails.
Though still rough, these are my first thumbnails portraying landscapes.
Not meant to show something concrete at this stage, and therefor it is often open to interpretation.
Expression Sheet of my character, who I decided to name: Tristan Nightstorm.
I’ve been an avid follower of artist Marc Silvestri’s wonderful drawing style for years, him and the late,great Michael Turner, among many others.
And therefor used Marc’s art as a reference for this excercise, while I still search and develop my own style.
As an extra level,I added different perspectives and the play of shadow and light to intensify my emotions, to try and push my boundaries further.
…here’s my Action Sheet for the created character, called Mandurin Imperial Warrior.
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