10-12-2015, 09:06 AM
hey Bookend,
I know exactly how you feel, I maybe get a day where I think I'm making progress, then everything just goes bad on me and I end up demotivated and not sure if I'm working on the right things.
Just keep at it man and try to find a plan that works for you, I'm trying to focus on one thing at a time, but I'm not sure that's working for my wandering mind, or even if it's the best approach, so maybe switching about will work better for you as well.
hotel room is looking good though, really, I think you can push this one.
OK so you asked for tips on perspective, I hope you won't be offended but I tried to do a paintover to show what I mean, it's kinda crude but hopefully it'll make sense alongside what I'm writing.
there are a couple of things that to me, look like they're killing the illusion of depth a bit, the room looks to be one point perspective, unless I've misread it, so for the most part all the parallel lines moving away from you should hit that single vanishing point eventually.
the tv on the wall, between the door and wardrobe, the horizontal lines on that don't both go the the vanishing point, so it throws the shape out a bit.
The bed, it looks like the headboard end is against the wall, which follows to the vanishing point, but if you take the lines of the bed and follow them along, the other end of the bed seems to go to a different vanishing point.
Also, the sofa, the cushion part that you sit on, the horizontal lines on that (the ones that are parallel with the bed and not going to the vanishing point) should be horizontal, like across the picture, if that makes sense.
My only other tip, which I constantly mess up on, is to consider the size of things against other things, so door against window, wardrobe, etc. That part is so bloody hard! I draw stuff all the time with floor to ceiling sinks or chairs bigger than a door.
I hope that makes sense and doesn't sound like I'm being harsh and just tearing you apart, but tightening that stuff up will make the whole thing read so much better.
One of the things that I do now and then, especially when i'm stuck or if I see ref that I just can't work out, is to draw the lines along and try to work out the vanishing points, it's useful because you can see how to acheive certain views yourself.
Anyways, I'll shut up now! hope that helps a t least a little.
I know exactly how you feel, I maybe get a day where I think I'm making progress, then everything just goes bad on me and I end up demotivated and not sure if I'm working on the right things.
Just keep at it man and try to find a plan that works for you, I'm trying to focus on one thing at a time, but I'm not sure that's working for my wandering mind, or even if it's the best approach, so maybe switching about will work better for you as well.
hotel room is looking good though, really, I think you can push this one.
OK so you asked for tips on perspective, I hope you won't be offended but I tried to do a paintover to show what I mean, it's kinda crude but hopefully it'll make sense alongside what I'm writing.
there are a couple of things that to me, look like they're killing the illusion of depth a bit, the room looks to be one point perspective, unless I've misread it, so for the most part all the parallel lines moving away from you should hit that single vanishing point eventually.
the tv on the wall, between the door and wardrobe, the horizontal lines on that don't both go the the vanishing point, so it throws the shape out a bit.
The bed, it looks like the headboard end is against the wall, which follows to the vanishing point, but if you take the lines of the bed and follow them along, the other end of the bed seems to go to a different vanishing point.
Also, the sofa, the cushion part that you sit on, the horizontal lines on that (the ones that are parallel with the bed and not going to the vanishing point) should be horizontal, like across the picture, if that makes sense.
My only other tip, which I constantly mess up on, is to consider the size of things against other things, so door against window, wardrobe, etc. That part is so bloody hard! I draw stuff all the time with floor to ceiling sinks or chairs bigger than a door.
I hope that makes sense and doesn't sound like I'm being harsh and just tearing you apart, but tightening that stuff up will make the whole thing read so much better.
One of the things that I do now and then, especially when i'm stuck or if I see ref that I just can't work out, is to draw the lines along and try to work out the vanishing points, it's useful because you can see how to acheive certain views yourself.
Anyways, I'll shut up now! hope that helps a t least a little.