The thing I found the most challenging on this one was the perspective drawing.
Scart Road, Bantry, watercolor, 9 x 12 inches.
I knew all those buildings have different vanishing points from each other. And the road has its own set of vanishing points below eye level. And I expected I would be tricked by those building fronts, which were extremely foreshortened.
But even knowing all that, I still had to erase and redraw the pencil drawing three times until I was convinced I had it right.
You can ask me your question about perspective on the SpeakPipe website. I might use your question in a future video.
For me, the hardest part for the picture would have been the depth of the doorways and windows, etc.
ReplyDeleteI (think) I understand well-enough the two-point perspective for the direction of the horizontals, but find the construction of a receeding grid to get the foreshortened depth of differently-sized structures cumbersome.
Is there a better way?
Thank you!
Hello. For me the most difficult part would be get the depth elements of the doorways, windows, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhile I think I understand how to do the horizontals in two-point perspective, the only way I know of to capture the fore-shortened depth is to construct a (cumbersome) receding grid.
Is there a better way?
Thank you!
I started mentally measuring the vanishing points for each of those houses and got really frustrated really fast. You have far more patience than I have. :-p
ReplyDeleteTerrific sketch! Perspective feels spot-on!
ReplyDeleteMultiple vanishing points for different objects on a single horizon line is a problem I continue running into and it's one I struggle with the most.
ReplyDeleteIt just looks wrong and is hard to do.
(also a lot of methods for constructing them from imagination contain a "guess what the floor plan of your object looks like and get your other vanishing points by projecting its outlines from there", which...ok, thanks. Just "guess", very helpful.)