Much better! He doesn't look like he's going to fall over anymore. :D
I'm really glad that my tip about the chair helped! I love sharing the things I know, to help or teach other people. It just makes me fuzzy-happy inside, because I'm a dork like that. I'm really hoping that the tutorial thingy will be useful to you.
And when doing rooms, or anything with lots of angles, you have to make sure you have a good horizon line, because there's going to be three vanishing points to use. See, the horizon is at the same level as your vision. Everything under the horizon you see the top of, everything above it, you see the bottom (so to speak). As things move into the distance, they get tinier, until they're so tiny they disappear. As they move into the distance, they also move towards the horizon. If you go to the beach or a big lake and watch ships in the water, it's easy to understand this. Also, if you're on a long straight road, you can see this with cars.
There are 3 vanishing points anywhere: one right in front of you and one on each side (peripheral vision, sorta). The one right in front of you is the one that is in effect with that straight road. The ones on the sides are the ones that you see when you're on a beach, looking out at the water. Everything right in front of you is big, but way in the distance down the beach, the condos are tiny.
When you're doing a room with objects inside, or a bookcase with books or whatever, you're going to be using ALL THREE points. But with drawing a single box, there's only 2, or if you're drawing the road but no cars, there's only 1. It can get complicated, so you always have to remember that if you're looking at a corner pointing at you, then you use 2, but if you're looking at something receeding, you use 1.
I'm not sure if I'm explaining it well, but I'll try to draw it out for you. The beach versus road thing is something I made up to explain it to myself when I was a kid and we learned about perspective in science class or something. I must have been six or seven.
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Date: 2006-11-14 06:56 am (UTC)I'm really glad that my tip about the chair helped! I love sharing the things I know, to help or teach other people. It just makes me fuzzy-happy inside, because I'm a dork like that. I'm really hoping that the tutorial thingy will be useful to you.
And when doing rooms, or anything with lots of angles, you have to make sure you have a good horizon line, because there's going to be three vanishing points to use. See, the horizon is at the same level as your vision. Everything under the horizon you see the top of, everything above it, you see the bottom (so to speak). As things move into the distance, they get tinier, until they're so tiny they disappear. As they move into the distance, they also move towards the horizon. If you go to the beach or a big lake and watch ships in the water, it's easy to understand this. Also, if you're on a long straight road, you can see this with cars.
There are 3 vanishing points anywhere: one right in front of you and one on each side (peripheral vision, sorta). The one right in front of you is the one that is in effect with that straight road. The ones on the sides are the ones that you see when you're on a beach, looking out at the water. Everything right in front of you is big, but way in the distance down the beach, the condos are tiny.
When you're doing a room with objects inside, or a bookcase with books or whatever, you're going to be using ALL THREE points. But with drawing a single box, there's only 2, or if you're drawing the road but no cars, there's only 1. It can get complicated, so you always have to remember that if you're looking at a corner pointing at you, then you use 2, but if you're looking at something receeding, you use 1.
I'm not sure if I'm explaining it well, but I'll try to draw it out for you. The beach versus road thing is something I made up to explain it to myself when I was a kid and we learned about perspective in science class or something. I must have been six or seven.