06-28-2016, 02:41 PM
Hey Amit and Artloader, thanks for the encouragement!
Amit
Yes, it is intentional, and I know the ellipses are positioned wrong. In this exercise I was just trying to get used to the mechanical skills of drawing, not the perspective rules. Uncomfortable doesn't expect us to know how to put ellipses in perspective, so he just wants us to fit a nice, even ellipse in the plane. http://drawabox.com/lesson/1/selfcritiqu...ses-uneven
Yeah, I need to practice placing ellipses in perspective! I don't really know how to do it properly. I have a Scott Robertson DVD that talks about it, but I can use all the help I can get. Do you know any good resources on this? Where did that little diagram come from? It is quite helpful.
Artloader
Yes, all the lines except for the boxes with the lines plotted all the way back to the VPs are done entirely freehand. That was just for the exercise. Usually I practice plotting perspective grids freehand, like Scott Robertson shows in his perspective DVD. But I'm not really that straight–yesterday my arm was pretty shaky and I had trouble ghosting the lines properly. I'm aiming to brush up on that today. :-)
It's not that hard to learn how to do this. I ghost my lines like Scott Robertson teaches us to do. The rest comes down to using your whole arm and practicing. https://youtu.be/C3lApsNmdwM
Amit
Quote:Gotta ask though. Is there a reason you've drawn all the ellipses wrong in the ones where you've used the squares in perspective to bound them? You seem to always be using one of the diagonals of the square as the major axis for every ellipse, rather than using the centre points of the sides of the square to draw the ellipse? It seems intentional so just wondering.
Yes, it is intentional, and I know the ellipses are positioned wrong. In this exercise I was just trying to get used to the mechanical skills of drawing, not the perspective rules. Uncomfortable doesn't expect us to know how to put ellipses in perspective, so he just wants us to fit a nice, even ellipse in the plane. http://drawabox.com/lesson/1/selfcritiqu...ses-uneven
Yeah, I need to practice placing ellipses in perspective! I don't really know how to do it properly. I have a Scott Robertson DVD that talks about it, but I can use all the help I can get. Do you know any good resources on this? Where did that little diagram come from? It is quite helpful.
Artloader
Quote:Did you do those free hand - your lines are impressively straight if you did!
Yes, all the lines except for the boxes with the lines plotted all the way back to the VPs are done entirely freehand. That was just for the exercise. Usually I practice plotting perspective grids freehand, like Scott Robertson shows in his perspective DVD. But I'm not really that straight–yesterday my arm was pretty shaky and I had trouble ghosting the lines properly. I'm aiming to brush up on that today. :-)
It's not that hard to learn how to do this. I ghost my lines like Scott Robertson teaches us to do. The rest comes down to using your whole arm and practicing. https://youtu.be/C3lApsNmdwM
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