Basic Perspective Final
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Hi all,
I've just finished my second attempt at the final project for the basic perspective course and I was wondering if anyone had any insight into a few issues I was struggling with.
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How do you size the cubes for scale? I'd start drawing them only to realize I'd drastically undersized or oversized the first cube. How do you get the scale of the cubes right?
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How do you choose where to place the vanishing points, I feel like I ended up with mine in the wrong places but I don't know why?
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Where did I go wrong on? I know its not right but I don't know why.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Maybe someone has a better answer, but one suggestion would be to lightly draw out the rough proportions, size, and position of the bed within the picture plane, then base the starting cube off of one of the corners of the bed and then build out from there. You may need to adjust the angles of the vanishing points, and sizes/proportions may change slightly, but at least you'll have a general starting point to scale everything else, and have room enough to add the elements you want.
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Do you mean their distance from eachother? or their relationship the the picture plane? For this particular assignment, I'd say keep them pretty far apart, and keep them outside of the picture plane. I think your vanishing points are pretty well chosen, but it does look like it distorts slightly at the bottom edge. Making the vanishing points further apart could help with this issue.
For practicing outside of this assignment, I'd suggest making a lot of thumbnail sized picture planes and experimenting with the placement of vanishing points and drawing the same simple object. After a while, you just sort of estimate it, but if you want a more technical way to think about it, I'd recommend this video, where he discusses choosing vanishing points for a standard, non distorted perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsbzCHLsQuQ -
It looks pretty good to me. The biggest error I see is that the door and bottom edge of the wall should match up in a line to the back bottom edge of the bed and night stand. The rug going toward the left vp also looked a little off.
I did a draw-over for you, hope you don't mind. I didn't worry about proportions, but hopefully you can see what I meant about the bottom edge of the wall and door.
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@TessaW Thank You! That's exactly the information I was looking for!
With regards to drawing the boxes for scale I was so wrapped up in drawing the boxes, that starting with a rough sketch didn't occur to me at all.
Also thank you for the draw-over it's really helpful, I can see where I ended up going wrong.
Thanks again, much appreciated
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In one of the SVS videos, (sorry, I don't remember which one) Jake or Will said that he drew a rough sketch of an interior or exterior first and extrapolated the vanishing points from that and then went back and fixed the drawing so everything lined up with those vanishing points. In other words, if I'm understanding him correctly, if you choose the vanishing points first, you might end up with a perspective (or camera angle) much different from what you wanted so you draw a general idea and set the vanishing points based on what you want. The vanishing points will then ensure everything is in the same perspective.
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@demotlj Thanks! this is super helpful. I was so focused on setting up the two point grid I forgot to do even a rough sketch of what I was trying to draw.
