Hello!
So Ive been trying to do the rough perspectives portion of the Boxes homework, and i am utterly stumped?
I got the boxes drawn, but i cannot figure out how to draw the lines back to the horizon?? Did I draw the boxes wrong? I have no idea what I'm doing here and I don't want to do another set incorrectly.
Here is the set i've tried to draw lines for. (Please ignored the deformed one, that was my first attempt :D )
A box drawn from a single-point perspective has a front face that's completely facing the viewer, and a back face that's also completely facing the viewer. The edges connecting those two faces are meant to aligned towards the vanishing point.
None of the edges on your boxes are drawn toward the vanishing point you marked on the horizon line. I can tell that by the ruled lines you drew extending those edges to the horizon -- they hit the horizon, but they're way off from the VP, even going in the opposite direction.
That's also the reason why you're unable to draw the extending lines properly on the rightmost box, because its top edges aren't heading toward the VP on the horizon at all.
Reread the Exercise page, and especially watch the video, because Uncomfortable shows how to do it in the video. Good thing you checked, as you'll have to redo this drawing completely! Hope this helps.
Thank you very much!! Looking at it now, I can see how I messed this up! I misunderstood this a lot, this helps though!! :)
the diagonal lines from your "cube" that you connect to the horizon are faced away from your Vanishing Point (VP). You are suppose to align it with the VP as you were with the plotted perspective, but in the rough perspective instead of drawing a visible line from the corner of your cube to the VP, you just need to plot a small dot for indication, aligning that dot as best as you can with the VP as if you were using a ruler like in the plotted perspective.
if you had a hard time understanding the plotted perspective, I suggest you read the material again and when you fully absorbed it you won't be having a hard time with the rough perspective, because they have similar steps just without the use of a ruler and not having visible lines to guide you.
it's hard explaining without showing visuals but I hope this helps you even just a bit.
This does help, I think I understand whats going on here. although i did draw "cubes", they just dont align properly because of the direction that they have been drawn in?
Thank you for the help also, the vanishing point is a hard concept for me to wrap my head around, even having watched the videos regarding them.
I think you need to go back to the instructions and follow them through carefully, step by step. Maybe twice. I think you have gone way wrong on the third step.
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective
You have marked a vanishing point on the horizon but none of your lines vanish there. In short, yes you have drawn the boxes wrong. It looks like you have drawn them without any reference to the vanishing point.
I think i figured it out, my understanding of the horizon line and the VP are a little jumbled right now but I think I'm starting to get it now. Thank you for the help!! I really appreciate it.
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