Class 2-Creative by GUAN YANG SHENG (NIE)

Term 2, Week 1

guan_yang_sheng_2 — 2025-10-16 06:13:10 UTC

Upload your image to your Padlet thread. Then, discuss your drawings with your classmates and submit a reflection to Padlet. You may use the following questions as a guide for your reflection:

What were the ambiguous parts of your reference image? How did you approach this ambiguity when constructing your drawing?
How was the process of orthographic drawing different from other dry medium works you have done?

2025-11-04 07:27:55 UTC

ambiguous: the whole behind of the frog. tried to imagine what the back of a frog looks.

process: feels more pressure to be precise/accurate and true to life

2025-11-04 07:29:50 UTC

Image was super ambiguous as it’s a 2D image. I approached it with my imagination

alyn fish!

quak_lin_hui_alyn_2 — 2025-11-04 07:29:56 UTC

I was deciding how fat the fish should be to match the front view of the fish image.
I had to plan and reference from the image and measure PART by PART. It is much more mentally technical than just "wheeeeee~"

Character Design

2025-11-04 07:30:04 UTC

I wasn’t sure if I wanted the cat to be a round boi or a long skinny boi but I decided to try and make a balance between the two and I think I ended up “biblically accurate” with no creative input :(

I’ll try to be more creative and free next time

qssteacher — 2025-11-04 07:30:22 UTC

1) the thickness of the potted plant is challenging and i went for the safe route of drawing an close-to-anatomically correct size.

2) it forces me to look at the item and figure it out from many different angles

2025-11-04 07:30:29 UTC

1) the side view is hard as the image I got was of a pot. I should have be Abit more imaginative.

2025-11-04 07:30:32 UTC

The ambiguous parts were a part of the side, but most ambiguous was the back of the robot. This influenced how I drew the side, I wanted to add more fun stuff so I could only draw it at the back.
The process is very methodical, step-by-step. This made me slow down and it did limit me in what to design, because I can’t go crazy and must follow the ref. But it also helped structure.

2025-11-04 07:30:34 UTC

I initially thought to only draw a cut out version for my character's arms so that the body details can be visible. Perhaps I can draw the arms lighter so to not distract the viewer but they still can tell that the character still has arms
It is different because I am trying to solve proportion problems by referring to the image side by side but for charcoal drawings we used the grid system

Orthographic Drawing

2025-11-04 07:31:06 UTC

The back part if the photo was hidden. I tried to imagine what the back would look like so to give it personality, i added nails at the back of the head to look like small cornrow braids.

The bottom part i wanted a tail to come out as a form of a weapon.

This work needed precision and follow the step-by-step guide.

2025-11-04 07:31:09 UTC

the entire back part of the character is hidden, this gives me the freedom to draw what I want. at first i gave the frog a tail but after which I added the telescope thing, which I built upon and added guns n machinery
helps me imagine the unknown but not from nothing which is hard in my opinion cuz sometimes idk what to draw

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2025-11-04 07:31:47 UTC

1. The details, i thought I want it to be as funky as possible so i decided to add as much details as possible.

I had to be more imaginative as I had to think of ideas and see if it made sense to my fish!

Skinny legend

2025-11-04 07:32:40 UTC

I was not clear about how to draw the eyes initially. But after drawing out the head of the cat, I found it more approachable. It was a little different from other dry mediums, there was more help from grids that were provided.

carlizzle — 2025-11-04 07:35:27 UTC

the ambiguous parts... maybe the tongue, the protruding eyes and part of the behind legs that are blocked by the front legs. i tried to imagine what a frog would look like.. but i dont think i got it.
this one has more structure, we measured the character using our rulers and grids!