I just finished the SVSlearn.com class, Choosing Colors for Storytelling, where Will Terry mentioned that a lot of the important things he is talking about is in the, Painting Color and Light, class. I take a look, and realize it references Light and Shadow, one of the Basic Curriculum steps.
So, after having only been picking and choosing the classes that pique my interest, I decide it’s time to give this learning path at SVS another look.
My biggest roadblock has been [can you guess] this course:
Basic Perspective Drawing.
It does not pique my interest.
The, How to Draw Everything class touched on drawing in perspective. I thought Jake Parker did a really great job of it. I learned a think or two.
That’s enough, right?
But I’m trying to eat some humble pie so that I can learn. And these guys maaaayy just know what they’re talking about. And they have put perspective as the 2nd step in the basics level. Probably shouldn’t skip this one, as much as it hurts my brain…Here we go!
[I sat down. I tried. But Something in my head convinced me I NEEDED to make 8 dozen muffins first. Whenever hard things come up, I always find something VERY important to do….Ever happen to you?]
OHHH, then I saw the magic ingredient: Assignments!
I changed my mind. I put away the baking. Now I love this class.
I’m such a geek.
There is one point where the teacher, David Hohn, is talking about “Degrees of the Circle” as he explains why circles look different from different perspective.
Huh, that clicked nicely.
I’ve never seen the mechanical shortening and/or warping of a circle in that way. It’s tilted, and you draw the lines at the tilt. Hopefully this still makes sense to me later on. But for now, I understood a thing.
Another great tidbit. David Hohn mentions that instead of referring to the horizon line as, well, the horizon line, he likes to call it the Eye Line. Because that is where your ‘eyes’ that you are drawing from are at. This helped me immensely. I was never really sure what we were talking about when we said horizon. It always made me think about landscape and far distant lines where the earth meets the sky. Which complicates things a LOT when you’re trying to draw a table inside a kitchen and you can not see where the earth is meeting the sky.
Also just me?
Eye line. Not horizon line. Sweet. Another Click.
I keep practicing:
