[Archived Class 1] Lurker's Lair - Week TWO

[Form]

This thread is for all lurkers to follow along, post their tasks and discuss. The only difference being, I wont be checking this thread myself, so I can make sure i devote all the time i have for the forums to helping out the ten students directly, otherwise we are spread too thin.

Thanks, Adam

[chaosrocks]

yeah yeah allyou folk sthat are following along should come over here
Adam dear... just ignore anyone not on the role ok?
I just want you to know I totally appreciate all the work you are putting in to this.
chaos

[ender62]

lol... "lurkers" makes us sound so dark.

[Agustin Poratti]

ok, foul beings and creatures from the dark! you have all of my help if i can be any...
i should rephrase that, shouldn't i?
get postin!

[Gundersen]

for any starcraft fan, a Lurker is a mutated Hydralisk that diggs itself down in the ground to fire spikes up from the earth

Ill give my help to people aswell if anyone wants it

[jodali]

yay! a lurkers thread!! since I just discovered the fact that there was a sort of educational thread here, and then realized that I was way to late to sign up for the class, (edit) So i am going to go right ahead and and just post my shit from week one which I just started and finished up today (on Sunday). In the next day or two I will post the assignments from the rest of week one (nuke silo) and then jump into week two, I would have posted this in the the week one lurkers thread but I couldn't find it....
1 pt perspective

2 pt perspective

3 pt perspective

image studies...



thank you Form for running this thread, I will will be glued to it till the end
if this is out of place or someone doesn't like me posting it here, let me know I will delete it.

[Gundersen]

Looks good, but be aware that Form doesnt check this thread. Just some of us classmates do.

And maybe the best thing is not to talk shit about the people that are supposed to give you some critts hehe

Yes alot of people didnt show enough "passion" in the first week, but it might have been personal reasons, or they didnt understand how much the course demanded in the start.

[Agustin Poratti]

ok, jodali, i guess it's "tick on all" for your studies.
cubes seem ok too.
get to the silo!

and try to be more subtle when speaking what you think, lol

[Gundersen]

jodali The first Cube does not have the correct perspective. One of your VP is wrong at least You will see it if you draw lines from some more buildings... And the River/Road kind of gives you a hint

[jodali]

Gundersen - yeah I guess I didn't really think that one through. Sorry I didn't mean to offend anyone when I wrote that.
Agustin - unfortunately I have that thing, I say what I think, instead of think what I say. I'm going to have to work on that.

as for the cubes, thanks for the crits but I'm not sure which one your talking about, is it the light blue, dark blue or grayscale one thats wrong?

[Gundersen]

Dark Blue

Gundersen - yeah I guess I didn't really think that one through. Sorry I didn't mean to offend anyone when I wrote that.
Agustin - unfortunately I have that thing, I say what I think, instead of think what I say. I'm going to have to work on that.

as for the cubes, thanks for the crits but I'm not sure which one your talking about, is it the light blue, dark blue or grayscale one thats wrong?

[jodali]

I would have to say that this one was the hardest one to do. I couldn't figure out which buildings to draw my lines on,
this is the same one as before just with out the cube shading..

[Gundersen]

Still waiting for you nuclear silo man

I would have to say that this one was the hardest one to do. I couldn't figure out which buildings to draw my lines on,
this is the same one as before just with out the cube shading..

[R13]

[ The tribe knew the ancient god they had found was powerful, but they never imagined how quick he could be to anger. After the cataclysm, the lands of the missing tribe were shunned by the wise, for their ghosts lingered, causing terrible sickness and deformity of all who settled there. ]

This doesn't really qualify as done, but it takes me so long to muddle stuff out that I thought I should just post it.

[jodali]

-Over 139 years ago the nations of Earth fought over land and oil. Soon the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed doing away with all known nuclear weapons. Some governments would not buckle under the pressure of their neighbors and decided not do destroy their weapons, instead they built silos in the ground near all major cities. Years went by and eventually the cities grew large enough to cover the silos. Only a few people in the highest levels of government new that vast stores of weapons lay under the people. One fateful day an alien race came to earth to take it for their own. Who would know that these weapons may actually be useful..

[Gundersen]

R13 Nice idea on your picture. But the perspective is not very correct, try to correct it by putting in some simple lines, after all it is a perspective study. Keep working on it!

jodali Nice picture mate. Love how you lead the eyes inwards in the picture to the city in the background. My only crit is the very very bright bridge in the fore ground, it realy takes away the attention of the rest of your picture.

[R13]

Thanks for the comment Gundersen. I guess I needed someone else to say it was off before I would admit it.

On the left side of the image there is a column with X shapes. When I do the perspective lines correctly, the X's flatten out rapidly as they recede. It looks horrible to me so I end up changing things.

Or maybe I'm just setting the whole thing up wrong from the beginning, I'm not sure.

[Agustin Poratti]

yes, i'd take the bridge away

-more critique later!

[Earendil]

Here are my perspective drawings. Apologies in advance for the early ones, I need to remember to stick to digital until I get a scanner.

It was really cool, I understand what Seedling meant regarding being able to subdivide and subdivide to create shapes. I learned methods of how to find a flipped shape in perspective, as well. It's all in the realm of a simple cube. Hmm cube...

Near the end, I began to understand how the VP's distances could be manipulated for more or less distortion in the field of view. Or maybe I didn't, but I had a few "aha" moments.

[Earendil]

Here are my perspective traceovers. Sorry for the new reply, but I like to delineate the tasks. Would love feedback on these ones. It's one of those deals where I'm pretty sure I got it, but quite possibly didn't get it...

[warry]

A landscape concept composed by olds dark rocks :

[jodali]

Gundersen, Agustin - thank you for the comments, as for the bridge, it was put there to cover up the bottom of the missile which was turning out to be a real pain. If I ever decide to further that painting the bridge will be taken out.

Earendil - great perspectives, and your paintovers look great too, i dont really see any thing wrong with them, as far as I can see they all line up to the existing vps

this is to catch up to week two..
tried to keep both under 30 min

video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btjh8XW1fW0

[Agustin Poratti]

nice colour studies. green is a bit too saturated/brilliant on the second one

[kovah]

*hops in*

yeah been reading through the threads, not had time to do any of the exercises yet due to Uni work. But did spawn this, its not wonderful and I was going to go with the whole 3 point perspective thing, but it wasn't happening really. So back to basics it was...

Its complicated and very rough (i'm not so good with inorganic environments) but I tried. Crits are most welcome Updates on it will be sporadic though if they happen because i should be doing homework *cringe*

[sony]

Hi this is going awesome, i did some linear perspective studies, would love to hear c&c

[Agustin Poratti]

i think you nailed them all, sony. keep it up!

[algenpfleger]

I'm late, so I'll have to work harder and faster
Wanna make it in the new claaaass~

Here's the cubes... the 1 point perspective was by far the hardest. And I'm not used to working with a ruler.





And here's some perspective searching. The first ones are pretty wrong I'm afraid :-/







I'll now head for the silo!

[algenpfleger]

Alright, here's the portfolio piece. I'm afraid it's a bit simple...


After the the last oil reserves had been depleted in the long and cold winter of 2039, thermal warmth became the second most important energy source of humankind. Thus, the both economical and tactical meaning of areas with tectonical activity raised tremendously and was often secured with heavy firepower.

[algenpfleger]

Lalala~

Week 2, photo studies. Couldn't participate in the discussion because it was long over.

[algenpfleger]

And 'The Path'!

I'd appreciate any kind of tips, critique or comments, but it seems all the action's over here
I want to get into that new class. I wonder if I'll manage to do another week's assignments today?