Grenbug

This lesson is from SVS How to Draw Anything.

This lesson is about finding the 3D shapes from 2D flat images. It’s also a baseline drawing project meant to show your current drawing ability on a large complicated shape. When I took this class before, they had you draw a house from imagination. It made for a simple little house. This lesson is more complicated and it’s a lot more difficult. But it’s meant to be difficult. It’s a baseline of where your skills are now so you can try again later and see if the task has gotten easier and you’re able to break down the image quicker.

I spent about 30 minutes just understanding the shape in 3D. There’s a lot of shapes and structures that you need to figure out. I had to do a sketch from above to figure out the footprint, then a 3/4 view tiny sketch just to see the shape. Then I did the full rough sketch. I took a break and came back to ink it.

I have some issues with proportions and perspective on this. The back should be wider and the side should be narrower. The back walls both lean back into the image, they are not straight. The ink brought it to life more, but there are details that are over-rendered like the steps. I need to learn to simplify more. There is a lot of character to the reference that is missing in my sketch. But it’s hard for me to define what it is. But overall, I do like how it turned out.

Mechanical pencil and fine liner on letter size copy paper

This took me 30 minutes to sketch and about 30 minutes to ink.