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About Horizon Line and Perspective

12:00 PM, Monday May 23rd 2022

Hello. I'm at Lesson 4 at the moment, and i've been watching some insect demos. But there've been a question that i have ever since i started Lesson 3.

What about Horizon line and Perspective?

Like when we construct box-like forms in 3D space,

Everything we draw must have a horizon line, therefore, perspective lines converge to a vanishing point should be exist somewhere, yes? When i watch the demos, i don't see Irshad put in the horizon line, nor perspective guildelines.

Or this will be cover in later Lesson? And why isn't it get introduced here? Is it too soon?

Thank you.

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4:59 PM, Monday May 23rd 2022
edited at 5:00 PM, May 23rd 2022

I'll take some time to answer your question.

If you remember the box challenge was all about building an intuitive sense for how to make our sets of lines to converge without necessarily having to plot our vanishing points or horizon line, we could do this because boxes are a geometric form. However, in lesson 3,4 and 5, we are working with fairly fluid representations of geometric forms that do not have the same kind of hard edges and planes. We choose to focus on how these organic forms relate and connect to one another and how to capture their natural fluidity, instead of how they may relate to some far-off vanishing point or horizon line, if we considered perspective in these drawings it just would end up stiffening them so much and would make the exercises that much more complicated.

edited at 5:00 PM, May 23rd 2022
5:14 PM, Monday May 23rd 2022

Yes it makes more sense now...i was just worried that what if i messed up the perspective then the whole structure is going to collapse and doesn't look solid -> break the whole 3d illusion we're trying to make

I actually watched this Youtube video (from 0:00 - 18:00) , it's also a scorpion-like drawing like Irshad's demo, but he construct it with boxes + horizon line, unlike our method where we use ellipses and sausages mostly.

Is there an absolute method? Which one is better? These questions keep floating in my mind.

I'll, of course, follow Drawabox method when i'm doing Drawabox, but i can't help but wondering haha i'm a dummy.

And you know what you're my savior Beckerito, thank you(again) !!

7:28 PM, Monday May 23rd 2022

No there is not an absolute method, and it is also important to keep in mind that we are not learning to draw anything in particular, what we are doing here are mere exercises that will help with your spatial reasoning.

As Uncomfortable puts it: "There will be exercises whose purpose won't be clear to you right away, but their relevance will become easier to understand once you've worked your way to the end.

Not every aspect of this course will work but once you understand the why of it all, having stuck to it, you'll be able to pick what worked for you and throw away that which did not. Just resist the urge to do that early...

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