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Gabriel Kahn
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3yr
added comment inPerspective help
Hello there! Nice job so far!
I did a quick overpainting, hopefully, it helps.
when drawing ellipses in perspective the easiest way to do them would be to make a rectangle in the known grid. When you connect the corners of the rectangle you will find the center of the shape. Then with a grid, you can figure out where to place points of the ellipse.
Keep up the good work! :)
@neophyte
3yr
Thank you so much for your time into correcting the piece ;; it's quite clear to me now and I'll try and improve more, I'm practicing drawing cylinders in perspective in the meantime. So I could do another round of cylinders in a picture plane. Thanks so much!
Aline Fouard
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3yr
I would advise you to find and study Scott Robertson book "How to draw" to understand more about perspective. If I am to provide a quick tip for you to understand circles in persp a bit more though, it would be to draw first a box that feels right to you, then freehand or construct ellipses into it. There's a lot more to this so again, you'll need some books to be more precise or understand what's going on. Good luck!
The diagram makes it easier to understand, I'm still on the process of learning perspective so thanks for the feedback!
I'm done with my perspective drawing but something looks quite off. I'm not sure where. Sorry if its dirty but it's enough to send a message, I have a guess its about the table (I always struggle with circles in perspective. To any trained artists in perspective I wanna ask what methods have you used in drawing circles. Thank you!
@neophyte
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3yr
I recommend that instead of copying shapes, its better that you learn perspective instead. I think you can look up one online about the basics of perspective like the vanishing points, parallel lines and the horizon/eye level. It will greatly aid your accuracy to draw these geometric shapes.
Thanks for taking the time to reply ^_^
Unfortunately, I'm not an artist myself, or even trying to become an artist (I only draw for half an hour to an hour each day), my goal is to see how much I can improve as time goes by. Since I'm quite ignorant regarding art, I decided to follow a curriculum that was mentioned by Stan and Marshall on the second season of Draftsmen (https://i.redd.it/7ns7su264gp31.png), which gives me some structure and keeps me from going aimlessly from one place to the next. The first part is the fundamentals of figure drawing course by Stan, I'm sure it will eventually go into perspective as well.
It's not like I'm trying to ignore some important fundamental topics, only they're too much to take in all at once, so I prefer to follow those goalposts. Maybe they're not 100% efficient, but at least they keep me on track and prevent me from wandering off too much.
