05-17-2013, 02:13 AM
Lyraiana, I actually have some useful advice for you with perspective and cubes hehe ^^
This was the 1st exercise we worked on over at imaginism workshop - and they had some eye-opening advice about it.
1) Do your cube looks like a cube? Make it look perfectly like a cube. If you look closely you will see its easy to spot when we have made it not symmetrical, and thats the first thing to fix.
2) Work ignoring perspective so you can practice your shape perception too. Make all edges perfectly parallel, and make all appropriate edges the exact same size for practice purposes.
It is, indeed, a nice perception exercise.
(for curiosity, here was my result after 3 passes of revision: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o3f6h0haxszb53t/07-C.jpg )
And about the cube! We even used that same photo as reference hehe.
The values are off and the contrast in edge individual face is too high. I know we see the difference in tone when we are painting it, but realism is captured with subtlety. If the tone only varies a mere 2%, we should try and vary only that much too. Make sure to not leave it as flat color, but take extra care to not heighten the contrast when its not there too.
Its very surprising how your picture happens in the midtones, and how often they are very gray even if they look very colorful.
And oh, don't forget the contact shadow under the cube :D
Keep up the great work!
This was the 1st exercise we worked on over at imaginism workshop - and they had some eye-opening advice about it.
1) Do your cube looks like a cube? Make it look perfectly like a cube. If you look closely you will see its easy to spot when we have made it not symmetrical, and thats the first thing to fix.
2) Work ignoring perspective so you can practice your shape perception too. Make all edges perfectly parallel, and make all appropriate edges the exact same size for practice purposes.
It is, indeed, a nice perception exercise.
(for curiosity, here was my result after 3 passes of revision: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o3f6h0haxszb53t/07-C.jpg )
And about the cube! We even used that same photo as reference hehe.
The values are off and the contrast in edge individual face is too high. I know we see the difference in tone when we are painting it, but realism is captured with subtlety. If the tone only varies a mere 2%, we should try and vary only that much too. Make sure to not leave it as flat color, but take extra care to not heighten the contrast when its not there too.
Its very surprising how your picture happens in the midtones, and how often they are very gray even if they look very colorful.
And oh, don't forget the contact shadow under the cube :D
Keep up the great work!