/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

My Jayne,

Unfortunately, I couldn't send this post yesterday due my internet connection going awry.

Onto the lesson: we're going to fix your troubles of drawing organic forms in the isometric view. Observe CBPNG.

>Crossed Corners
Determines the center.

>Quartered Corners
If you take a perfect circle and fit it into a perfect square and quarter the shape like CBPNG, then you'll have a quarter of a circle inside a quarter of a square.

When in doubt, draw an ellipse in this way and it will be more accurate (though less sleek) than the purely eyeballed approach:

The technique is to draw the ellipse in 4 parts, and each one having two distinct ends attaching it to the other quarters. You are to concentrate on drawing the ellipse from end to end, one at a time. This way, you can draw the correct arc no matter how distorted the quarter is.

The more thorough you can be at measuring circular curves (cylinders, spheres, circles in any angle) and the basic shapes, the better you are at measuring abstract forms. This is because you can always break down an organic shape into something more graspable. And if you can at least measure the underlying forms and block them in, then you can draw the abstract features with little need for construction guide.

All this training with mathematically accurate distance judgment and so on serves the cause of training the wiring of your brain. With enough practice you will be able to, in the future, free-draw with ease what you currently can barely do with strenuous problem solving.

The art is in the beauty; the math is in the dimensions.

My Jayne, study this well. If you can recall them, draw what organic forms you failed to draw in >>1411087
Report back to me with your observations or questions, and don't hide your failed attempts from me.
We'll keep going from there.

>>1414803
It seems you're already grasping it better. Good.

>>1413978
Alas, I cannot do this anytime soon.
Follow my Jayne's lessons if you must.

Captain