Today I'm working on structure
4yr
@andypandi
It feels like I'm doing something wrong. I would really appreciate feedback and some exercises I could do to practice.
One thing that might help is drawing boxes first and then drawing ellipses onto the sides on the box (buying a plastic ellipse template would help). You're alligning the ellipses with the minor axis well, but work on doing different degrees of ellipses. Your far ellipses are drawn as circles, which doesn't make sense unless you are drawing a sphere with a cylinder coming out of it, like a bell. Scott Robertson has the best book I've seen on this: "How to Draw."
If these are all making a radial pattern, then the vanishing points all terminate in the same spot, even if the cylinders are turning. This also shows how as the cylinders turn, the less extreme the convergence.
For something like this, it helps to draw in a grid, which I've done here. All your convergence lines should align with the grid.
Good job tackling this stuff. Stick with it!
Let's say that if you are able to see the base almost perpendicularly, the same should happen with the upper surface.
May I suggest a very silly exercise to help you understand the concept?
Take a glass or a can (or a jar, whatever, as long as it is cylindrical) and photograph it with your cell phone from various angles.
Then trace it and see how the surfaces deform depending on the change of perspective. Easy and intuitive. :p
Once you understand how surfaces behave in perspective, try this projection exercise again.
Hello, here's a new version working with a grid, it felt better and it was easier for me to notice my mistakes. I'll keep working on it, thank you for you consistent feedback :)
Looks like youre working cylinders which is great practice. The ellipse on some of them looks a bit squished and flattened. One way of observing ellipses and seeing exactly what they do is to take a clear glass that you dont care about and draw a line around it with marker. You can use another glasses edge to keep the line consistent around the one you draw. Or use a piece of string around the glass. Once you’ve observed it from various angles and points of view then start making them up out your head. Its a good exercise that help me a bit. I could do with doing again. At their basic shape an ellipse is just an oval. They also sell templates for ellipses and ive had one before but never used it cause i want to understand it for myself. Good luck hole that helps
Have a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEtdDvK6Xo
You’re drawing the base of the forms on a 2D plane instead of them aligning to the perspective.
