More excerpts from the demonstration talk I’m giving tomorrow at Stumptown:
David Chelsea is listening to:
A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles
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Tag: cylindrical perspective
Stumptown Previews #4: More Perspective Grids
I’ll be giving a talk and demonstration of drawing on perspective grids Saturday at Stumptown. Here is part of what I’ll be talking about.
David Chelsea Is Watching:
“True Grit”
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Stumptown Preview #1: Perspective Grids
The Stumptown Comics Festival approaches. This year’s event will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland on April 16th and 17th. As usual I will be attending, signing books and selling artwork at my own table, but this year I will also be doing a presentation, a demonstration of drawing in perspective using the pre-existing grids from the DVD which comes with my new book Extreme Perspective!
David Chelsea is listening to: “Packing For Mars” by Mary Roach
Metaperspective: Keller Fountain
I based this view of Portland’s Ira Keller Fountain on a 360º panorama by photographer Tom Lechner, which he had printed on a paper model of a rhombic triacontahedron, a thirty-sided geometric solid approximating a sphere. Originally known as the Forecourt Fountain, it was designed by the architect Lawrence Halprin and dedicated in 1970, You can view a large image of the painting here.
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Stumptown 2010
The Stumptown Comics Fest is something of a yearly ritual for me, a chance to meet the reading public and reconnect with out-of-town friends I otherwise never see (Maryland cartoonist Carla Speed McNeil immediately noticed that I was walking without a cane; I had forgotten that last year I was still getting over a broken leg.).
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