Hello!
Today I started work on my Invisible Cities project by doing some perspective drawing practice. The last time I tackled perspective was during art GCSE and I remember it being a very stressful and confusing subject. However, after going through some online tutorials I feel a lot more confident. Because I could go over the tutorials at my own pace, I didn't have any trouble learning about 1-point perspective, and then moving on to 2-point and 3-point. I'm pleased it was an easy exercise as perspective has always been something daunting to me but I've now realised it wasn't much to worry about at all. Here are my three sketchbook pages, showing 1,2 and 3 point perspective respectively. I prefer to use red (and blue) pencil in my sketchbook so I hope everybody can see it ok!
Now that I've completed this task, I'd like to move on to writing the 'Who's Who?' about my selected concept artist. I've already chosen who, it's just a matter of writing about them! Stay on the lookout for that as it'll be up in the next few days.
Boom! :) Now you've completed these basic exercises, how about upping the complexity and seeking to put some more complex objects/spaces into perspective too?
ReplyDeleteYes! I'll give that a go - hopefully I can start to put what I've learnt about perspective into practice in some of my thumbnails! I'm interested in doing a personal piece of work just to test out my new skills too, so I'll keep you posted! :)
DeleteHey Chloe Great Work :),
ReplyDeleteLearning the basics of perspective really adds dimension and depth to any designs particular Environments and It is definitely something you should implement into Calvino's Invisible Cites. I agree with Phil It would be a good idea to implement some unique shapes,
I bought this book called "how to draw comics the Marvel way" by Stan Lee and John Buscema. It is fantastic at breaking down drawing everything into its most simplistic forms which can either be a cube, sphere or cylinder and then fleshing them out, it also describes perspective in the most simple way to understand. I have scanned some of the pages from the book which should help you out, give it a gawk when you can. -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw7HyFG_81TdQ1NvZXpuUGNQOWM/view?usp=sharing
If you want to get the book it's a steal for only a fiver in the works!. Keep up the good work :)
Hello!
DeleteWow, thank you!! I've just read through the scans you've got and they're really informative (and fun to look at!) I have found the book on Amazon and think I may get it from there as it seems to have a lot of valuable advice in it. I've already started work on some more interesting perspective views to see if I can give myself a bit of a challenge :)
Your Welcome :)
DeleteThe book is really easy to understand and is broken down to make it simple to read. I'd definitely recommend getting it if you can! it teaches you everything :).
Definitely have a go with some interesting perspectives with invisible cites and sketch them out first and then I would scan them to a usb stick and pop them into photoshop to do some paint overs.
Working straight from photoshop to do concept art can sometimes feel a bit daunting especially if you haven't used a tablet before so this would help a lot.
Give it a whirl and I cant wait to see what you come up with :)
Awesome! I'll give it a try, thanks!
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