Currently doing the 250 boxes, doing some dramatic foreshortening, and this one box has me very confused.As far as i can tell, the extended lines seem alright, but the box itself looks very odd. Is it because of where i placed the vanishing points, that it doesnt seem to make sense?
This is box 27 I'm referring to (the foreshortening points even converge kind of nicely!?)
Because the lines extended towards the left and down have very little foreshortening but the lines extending to the right converge very quickly. There is no way there could be such a difference in foreshortening, especially given the angle of the box. Make sure the convergences are always similar.
More than a box, it's like you drew a tapered box (which is not actually a box), like the ones we do in the rotated perspective exercise in lesson 1.
Ohh I did not know that, thankyou!
However I'm still a little confused because box 30 also has very little foreshortening in the lines going left/right, but it looks okay? Or is it just that i can't recognise that it looks weird?
It looks better because the box is stretched in that direction (so it will foreshorten more because the other side is much farther away) and because of the viewer's perspective.
That being said, it's still a bit weird. Try rotating the page looking at it from another angle. Next time don't draw the lines so parallel if some part of the box is going to have a considerable foreshortening.
EDIT: this last tip only applies when drawing boxes in 3 point perspective, obviously.
It's not a tapered box, because the lines are converging to a vanishing point and touching on it, which means that the lines are parallel. The only thing that happens is that the perspective is pretty extreme, so it means that the box is really big on that direction, as if it were a skycraper or something.
Thank you guys for the help! I tried using the same Ys but this time making all points converge which made everything less distorted.
interesting how the parallel lines distort it so much!
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