@lucy_gow Your designs are really fun to look at! I think you actually did a pretty good job of converting to a 3 dimensional castle. That step can be hard. Just remember that the little design thumbnails are just to help you build a nice looking silhouette. If the final design ends up being slightly different from the original concept I think that's ok, as long as you manage to keep an interesting shape.

@Chantal-Goetheer I do see that tangent. Thanks for spotting it.

Finished last assignment and course!

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@Mia-Clarke Good point about it being off kilter, haha. I will try some different base designs that would serve as better support and a more organic base would be nice. I might just leave the leaf as a shade instead of the turning on and off element. Maybe the fish obey a command to turn on and off or eat some special food to glow 😂

Thank you for all the great suggestions!

@Pamela-Fraley thanks! I was thinking the same thing about the house!

Starting the class and here is my shape character line up. IMG_20221104_103411.jpg

@Chantal-Goetheer Thanks for the reply. In the first illustration, the vast difference in scale was intentional. In the second one, the story behind it was of a single father and son that live in a normal suburban neighborhood but converted their house into an observatory. I think your comment on homely touches would sell it more, like a garage or maybe some plants. I would need to think of a few more details that make a house a home. Thank you for you feedback.

@mcschweitzer hi! I haven’t taken this class but as a rule of thumb you should always submit a high resolution file to get good quality. A low resolution will get u the opposite.

I also think you should always have a psd file of your work in case something happens.

@Pamela-Fraley sorry just saw your answer, the assignement was a prompt (I had to pick two of 5), and we had to find "secondary stories", which are stories that are "hidden" in the prompt and that enrich an illustrations (for example of the prompt "turtle camping", instead of drawing a turtle camping, you might find ways to tell a fun and creative story around it)

@Bill-B Good job. I think the perspective looks really good. I like the lower point of view as if a child is watching it. It's a very well designed classic car. In what sort of story would you fit it? Why did you design this car?

@ArtistErin Thank you!
That's exciting that you are going to work your way through the Fundamentals soon 🙂

@tom-barrett I think I will go back and darken the areas. I suppose I was afraid I'd go too far.

Update with a handy perspective tip! And it was so obvious in retrospect 🤦 . As I wrote earlier this year, I hated doing perspective drawings because I was creating these huge sheets to include the vanishing points, and it made my files huge. Just this week it occurred to me that there is a much simpler solution for those of you who use PS:

You know those (usually blue-green) guidelines in the PS docs? And you know how when you transform a shape, there's a little dot in the center that the transformation rotates around? Basically, that's the solution.

You create a horizon line with a horizontal guideline. Then you draw out a perspective line from the horizon line with the line shape tool. Drag a vertical guideline to where this line intersects the horizon line, which becomes the vanishing point. (Or a vanishing point, because you almost always at least one more.) Then you hit cmd +T (on a Mac) to transform the line, drag the center point in the transform box to the vanishing point, and then you can rotate your perspective line to any point you need in the composition to draw out your perspective. Of course you do have to keep dragging the center point to the corner every time you need to move the line, but that's a walk in the park compared to dealing with a huge file. You can work at your original doc size and it's just a line layer or two, so it doesn't weigh down your file!

And since a picture is worth a paragraph of words, here's one I'm working on now, taking a sketch to finished drawing:

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@LauraA said in Advanced perspective--I spent HOW long on this?:

Any tips on dealing with unwieldy files on Photoshop? I have a 16" Cintiq and in order to extend the vanishing points out far enough not to warp the perspective, the drawing becomes so tiny that I can no longer see to accurately place the perspective lines. (You can't drag and zoom at the same time--I tried!) I also get lost in all the perspective line layers and in fact, my file may have locked up yesterday because there were over 100 of them! (Today I merged mercilessly.)

@Asyas_illos thanks a ton!

@kirsten-mcg Awesome, thank you!
Yeah, I think it will take me awhile...
But it's pretty meditative, so I don't mind it so far.

Now that I've gotten more feedback, the perceived emotions based on the tiny abstract paintings are all different 🤣

What an interesting and difficult assignment!

These are looking really nice! As for your question on how many drawings should you do for practice, do you mean in one single practice session? I usually just do a 30 minute session on https://line-of-action.com/. However, practice is unique to each person. Practice as much as you feel like you need to.

I actually think you already have a very defined style. You might think you’re working different styles sometimes and it might vary a little bit, but ultimately I can always tell your work apart, that includes things you have on your website. And a lot of the things you have pictured are very similar in style to those on your dream board not just in theme. So I don’t think your as lost as you might think. Or if you want to separate your styles there’s nothing wrong with have more than one! I think I might be headed that way myself. Just make separate areas for each one (like you already have) 😊 hope this helps you find piece of mind❤️

I think more elements of the prompt could be included. You’ve included the nouns like "salamander, squirrel, forest floor", but not the actions like, "quickly, scampered, hid". The actions are really what you want to focus on in just about any illustration. It can help to think about how the illustration reads with the prompt in mind. The liveliness of your style is great but putting more attention on the concept is what could really make the illustration stand out.

If you have any thoughts on the artist comparison part please share. 😊
Would you place the works in the same spots on the line from Graphic/Stylized to Realistic?

How is the rendering? Is there anything I need to work on?

Any help or general feedback would be appreciated 😺