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@Josseline Jeria Haha. Yes taking these measurements and constantly drawing geometric forms does affect your brain in a strange way. It is fun though when you get into the rhythm and begin to understand how it works. I agree, with the horizon line below the cubes were a bit more challenging. I think one of the key things is that, I feel like after these excersises I now understand perspective or at least an aspect of it much better and more intuitively, having dealt with it with construction as well as observation. Good luck with the next part of it!!

 

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DAY 4: Freehand cylinders

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I have been trying the eraser technique myself. Its a lot of fun but I make quite a mess. 🙂 This is nice.

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Enjoying the Gouache sketches!

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Cool! Cant wait to get to this art of the course.

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Great! Gonna watch this develop now.

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Thanks Joshua. I’ll keep at it.

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I like the second picture. I have taken up drawing a bit less than 3 months so I don’t know if I can critique this. However looking at the lower right I don’t understand the form clearly. Perhaps the shadow on the edge is too dark? However, it being confusing adds a certain surreal vibe to it, which is interesting, don’t know if that was the aim. 🙂

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DAY 3 :

The second part of the cylinder assignment was more challenging than I thought.

 

I realized at times I was messing up proportions as in size of ellipse : length, when I put the cylinder at angles different from the one in the video lesson. As I progressed I tried measuring in a different way. In the second page I feel at times I exagerrated the perspective a bit too much. On the 6th one I realized halfway through, that the basic angle was completely wrong so I started all over and counted it as 7. 🙂

A question occurred to me which is quite possibly rather silly. Should my constant be parallel only to my paper when I measure the object or parallel to the angle of the object?

Here’s examples of the two ways to get a better idea:

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Above the constant is parallel to my paper as I measure.

2.

In image 2. above the constant is parallel to the direction of the object and then I turn to my paper again to put the mark.

So far I always applied method in image 2. I guess its more to do with what perspective you want?

…And I thought drawing a cylinder would be straightforward. Well clearly not for me! 🙂

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Thanks for the tip Joshua. Will keep that in mind for the next one.

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Wow that looks great to me. Its a long way before I get to these studies. 🙂

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I find the zorn studies cool! Also can see you got the ellipses going pretty nicely.

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Thanks Josseline and good luck with the section. Would like to hear your progress. I now reached the assignment to construct the cylinder from observation.

DAY 2: 

In this particular assignment I came across the problem of finding the size of the ellipse on top of the cylinder in relation to the height of the cylinder. In Iliya’s demonstration it measured 8 equal parts but at times when the measurement is in fraction eg. ellipse is  4 1/2 times the height I found it tricky. I found a way around this by comparing instead the height of the ellipse to the width of my cylinder (which I had already established), and found this to be considerably easier considering the smaller fraction.

 

After my 6th cylinder I wanted to change things around and took a low angle perspective. Since my cylinder was a glass jar, I measured the lower ellipse first. Then I found the top ellipse which was above the horizon line and made it a bit flat as it was very close to the horizon line. I darken the top part of the ellipse you actually see and the part that is construction. I know my cylinders are a bit wonky sometimes like no 8. :):

After that I completed the free hand cylinder drawing exercise.  Next I will move onto the construction of a cylinder lying horizontally.

 

 

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Hi Josseline, thanks very much! I I look forward to hearing about your progress with it too. I tried posting my day 2 assignment with pictures in the afternoon twice but it still hasn’t come. I read on the forum that it can take a few hours as they may manually post it, so I’ll wait and see.

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Thank you Paul! Yes I did not fully understand an ellipse until I started these exercises.. Still trying to slowly grasp it.

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