Basic Perspective Help

[von_Nimmermehr]

Hello,

I need some help here, because it seems i run into the same problem, while working on this final assignment ....

I tried a few times now to make my grid and draw some cubes but it seem they just always strech so much, i try to work with all the lines and tricks, but i cant figure out where it goes wrong.

Also going digitally didnt make the trick.

1. i think is looking okay but ending up with 2. doesnt seem right.
   Could someone show me, where the problem is?
   @davidhohn

Also i drew this in the spirit of the moment, and even though i think its not quit right, i think its okay

[davidhohn]

@von_Nimmermehr You are doing great!
Your process of repeating the square planes in perspective is correct. Nothing going wrong there at all. Even the distortion you are noticing is "correct" -- in that the same thing happens to me. I get about 4 - 5 cubes in perspective and the tops stop looking like square planes and more like rectangles. Or the right vertical side starts looking like a rectangle.

Try not to let it frustrate you. Simply recognize that your square planes (or cubes) have stopped looking like cubes and adjust the spacing a bit. There so many places where if you are even a 1/16" off the error gets multiplied and magnified. BUT once you adjust it to "look" correct again (still following the fundamental rules) you can continue duplicating the square planes/cube until you have as many as you like (or as many as you need)

And your room looks great! Only thing I noticed was the door handle doesn't stick out from the door (currently drawn as though the viewer is looking at it straigth on rather than from a 3/4 view on the right) But given how much you got right in this drawing that feels a little nit-picky.

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

Perpective methods work perfectly when using infinitesimally precise tools; a very small error can make a cube look off.
And even when perspective methods are applied perfectly, there will be distorsions because, they are only a simplication of how our eyes work.

In other words, at some point when working with perspective, you have to trust your eyes. If it looks good and appealing, it is probably good.

[von_Nimmermehr]

@davidhohn Thank you so much for the feedback.
It's funny how my brain is tricking myself though.

I just got me some cubes to have a good look at them. I guess it would have been easier to just see it in reality.

And you are absolutely right about the door handle, he sliped out of my sight, looking just so plain

[von_Nimmermehr]

@Geoffrey-Mégardon Thanks for your words.

[alexw]

Prefacing this first!
I've not taken this course and I'm not an expert!

But to the points already made above, I don't think your squares look off. And I have an additional note.

What it could be is what you're seeing is that as the Left, 1, rectangles/square "go towards the background" the perspective is changing. If that makes sense.

If I recall, as objects get closer to the horizon line, or "farther away" they're smaller. And with your case, those vertical left lines are "shrinking" (see my screenshot)

And they probably look stretched because of how much you're "distancing" the bottom horizontal lines (one is circled for example in screenshot.)

If you wanted to fix it, you could make your bottom lines a "shorter distance"

Like I imagine your "platform" or set of boxes is like an accordian that needs to be "pushed" from its left side toward the right a little bit, if we're thinking visually.

Hope that helps!