05-22-2020, 08:35 AM
Hi Darktiste, Zorrentos kind of beat me to it with his drawing, and what he said is very true. but I tried to draw close to the same pose, showing how perspective is applied regardless of the subject. It's somewhat of a misconception that if you are drawing something from front view, as opposed to at a 3/4 angle or any other angle, that you are looking at everything "front on" and therefore do not need to use perspective. The truth is, perspective is at work, or should be, in every single drawing, even your previous costume designs, although you could argue those were more supposed to be 2D like a fashion drawing template.
But anyways, as you were saying yourself, you tend to kind of "cheat" perspective so you don't have to think about these things much. The truth is I do too. I think everyone is "cheating perspective" to some degree, it's just a matter of making it convincing!
So the reason the feet aren't convincing is that you drew them at eye level, but we would really be looking down at the feet. You tend to draw most things as if they are all at eye level, not looking up or down at them. There's always one point on the subject where this will be the case, but then every other point is looked up at, or down at, to some degree or another. Imagining a column next to the body, you can see that the body is subject to the exact same perspective. We are looking down at the feet, looking head on at the chest, and by the time we get to the head we are looking up at it.
As always, it's up to you what you are interested in working on. Just giving my 2 cents.
But anyways, as you were saying yourself, you tend to kind of "cheat" perspective so you don't have to think about these things much. The truth is I do too. I think everyone is "cheating perspective" to some degree, it's just a matter of making it convincing!
So the reason the feet aren't convincing is that you drew them at eye level, but we would really be looking down at the feet. You tend to draw most things as if they are all at eye level, not looking up or down at them. There's always one point on the subject where this will be the case, but then every other point is looked up at, or down at, to some degree or another. Imagining a column next to the body, you can see that the body is subject to the exact same perspective. We are looking down at the feet, looking head on at the chest, and by the time we get to the head we are looking up at it.
As always, it's up to you what you are interested in working on. Just giving my 2 cents.