02 Jul 02:41
--Thanks for the resource Amit - I will track that down.
Shout Box archive
02 Jul 02:40
--sure...a free resource is handy for poor folk, of course loomis has great stuff too
02 Jul 02:40
--But my favorite perspective book is "Perspective For Comic Book Artists" by David A. Chelsea
02 Jul 02:40
--I have that book, but I didn't find it as helpful as Scott Robertson's video. Norling is good, but I guess tailoring the vid to drawing cars worked for me. I DO want to draw vehicles, though. XD
02 Jul 02:39
--Ernest Norling's perspective made easy is a public domain book, and has many of the same techniques of measurement etc...just not as tailored to drawing cars
02 Jul 02:37
--Yes, I find that watching Scott draw helps me understand how to do it better.
02 Jul 02:37
--I <3 <3 <3 freehanding perspective constructions, they are so much fun. When I get one right, I feel like a drawing god LOL
02 Jul 02:37
--It's handy to see the process in video...the book can get confusing to decipher in the more complex sequences
02 Jul 02:36
--Sounds good. I also keep hearing about Scott Robertson so I watched one of his free YouTube vids - I think I'm gonna get his book at some point.
02 Jul 02:36
--Just draw a box, man. :-) Practice with just a bit of theory is so much more efficient than just theory alone.
02 Jul 02:33
--Once you start drawing boxes, you will begin to see what works and what doesn't. And then you'll figure out why, and this will tie back into what you know about VPs...
02 Jul 02:33
--Nah, just start doing the Draw a Box homework. He has you plot out a few constructions, but not many.
02 Jul 02:32
--I guess I need to start by actually doing the full VP constructions and then I can start winging it when I get more of a feel for it.
02 Jul 02:31
--I'm also doing freehand perspective constructions from Scott Robertson's vid, which involves plotting out the VPs, so I think that is helpful too. :-)
02 Jul 02:31
--I find that I am still thinking of the VPs, I just don't try to actually plot back to them.
02 Jul 02:29
--But if you are drawing boxes at crazy angles to each other, you can't just rely on plotting out the VPs. And a full on construction would be waaaaaay too hard and mathematical (and too perfect, too).
02 Jul 02:28
--Think about it, if you put a box with a super large amount of foreshortening (vanishing points close together) next to a box with not nearly as much, it doesn't make sense!
02 Jul 02:28
--You'll find out about this when you get to the Organic Boxes exercise, that one is great!
02 Jul 02:27
--Where this really gets complicated is when you have multiple boxes in a single scene. They could work individually, but not fit together as a whole 'cause they have different amounts of foreshortening.
02 Jul 02:26
--If I'm really far away and you are viewing me through a telescope, my fist won't look nearly as large. There won't be as much foreshortening, and the perspective will be flatter.