02-22-2015, 12:07 AM
Been a while since my last update - time to fix this.
I re-did the cube assignments for the Permanoobs Week 1 Bootcamp. Not sure if it's better than the first attempt, but it's all digital for the sake of practicing that stuff. The ellipses are bugging me as ever. I need to restrain myself from going over each more than one time - and enhancing the mistakes even more this way. The rotation I feel like is not good enough. I try to imagine the box being tipped off at one corner, and how the plane would shift, but I still end up with marking the same (or similar) position for each attempt. What I wanted to get to is more like this. I realize that in such rotation the cuboids are more into 3P perspective, which is why I tried to apply that somehow in that sheet.
Anyway, I still have to finish the rest of the assignments eventually - the others are probably all on week 3 by now if I stick at it maybe by the end of summer I *might* get it all done.
Either way I think the mileage with these is crazy good to miss. So, got to buckle up and just do my baby-steps pixel by pixel.
![[Image: 8TlTsew.jpg?1]](http://i.imgur.com/8TlTsew.jpg?1)
![[Image: A5QdxoE.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/A5QdxoE.jpg)
Now about my own 10-day challenge endeavor: the third one was an epic fail. The theme was perspective, but since I had literally no time, I did the perspective drills for the Bootcamp assignments and made that count. So there will be a round 2 on that for sure, with some back-to-basics-Scott-Robertson-action.
The fourth challenge was a smaller fail, but a fail nonetheless. I had planned to do a lot more studies, and finish off with some imaginative stuff (as I try with each) but again, made it through only 1/4 of the whole plan. This time the theme was "Industrial" (perhaps hard-surface would be more fitting) - since I have never actually done anything of this sort, it was about time I started.
So here are 5 studies of form (a mix between rough line-work and paint-blobs) and applying to imagination. That was the plan at least for the second part. I doubt how much the form studies actually influenced my imagination thumbs, because clearly I end up with something not that closely related to the reference.
I eventually realized that I repeated one thumb - the values are almost identical and the same motif is repeated with the white mountain-like form in the background. I would probably attribute this to my limited visual library - or lack of muscle memory, hence the repetition. What I did try to do though was not get back to all the mud-like values and make the contrasting shapes more readable. Not sure how that worked out, but comparing to the previous "imaginative" thumbs, it may be slightly better.
![[Image: 4n34u0C.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/4n34u0C.jpg)
I really liked this theme, there's a lot of great shapes in these refs, and I will come back to it after a few challenge sessions. All refs are from morguefile.com, in case anyone is interested.
Today I'm starting a new 10-day challenge focusing on values, since there's always room for improvement there. Let's see how that turns out. :)
I re-did the cube assignments for the Permanoobs Week 1 Bootcamp. Not sure if it's better than the first attempt, but it's all digital for the sake of practicing that stuff. The ellipses are bugging me as ever. I need to restrain myself from going over each more than one time - and enhancing the mistakes even more this way. The rotation I feel like is not good enough. I try to imagine the box being tipped off at one corner, and how the plane would shift, but I still end up with marking the same (or similar) position for each attempt. What I wanted to get to is more like this. I realize that in such rotation the cuboids are more into 3P perspective, which is why I tried to apply that somehow in that sheet.
Anyway, I still have to finish the rest of the assignments eventually - the others are probably all on week 3 by now if I stick at it maybe by the end of summer I *might* get it all done.
Either way I think the mileage with these is crazy good to miss. So, got to buckle up and just do my baby-steps pixel by pixel.Now about my own 10-day challenge endeavor: the third one was an epic fail. The theme was perspective, but since I had literally no time, I did the perspective drills for the Bootcamp assignments and made that count. So there will be a round 2 on that for sure, with some back-to-basics-Scott-Robertson-action.
The fourth challenge was a smaller fail, but a fail nonetheless. I had planned to do a lot more studies, and finish off with some imaginative stuff (as I try with each) but again, made it through only 1/4 of the whole plan. This time the theme was "Industrial" (perhaps hard-surface would be more fitting) - since I have never actually done anything of this sort, it was about time I started.
So here are 5 studies of form (a mix between rough line-work and paint-blobs) and applying to imagination. That was the plan at least for the second part. I doubt how much the form studies actually influenced my imagination thumbs, because clearly I end up with something not that closely related to the reference.
I eventually realized that I repeated one thumb - the values are almost identical and the same motif is repeated with the white mountain-like form in the background. I would probably attribute this to my limited visual library - or lack of muscle memory, hence the repetition. What I did try to do though was not get back to all the mud-like values and make the contrasting shapes more readable. Not sure how that worked out, but comparing to the previous "imaginative" thumbs, it may be slightly better.
I really liked this theme, there's a lot of great shapes in these refs, and I will come back to it after a few challenge sessions. All refs are from morguefile.com, in case anyone is interested.
Today I'm starting a new 10-day challenge focusing on values, since there's always room for improvement there. Let's see how that turns out. :)