Experimenting with box perspective.
After doing my last study of perspective in a box I felt that something was wrong with the lid. But I couldn’t see what I was doing wrong.
I decided that if I really wanted to know in what direction I should draw the ribs of the lid of a box I should take a better look at a box.
After making a box with lid I found that none of my tables was high enough so I had to lay down on the floor to see the box from below.
But it was a fruitful experience. It turns out that I made a mistake in my last drawing.
After some experimenting with a tilted piece of paper I thought that the vanishing point of the ribs of the lid should be in the lower left corner. But that was wrong.
The vanishing point should be in the upper right corner far beyond the frame of the paper.
Practicing perspective box with lid 2
Obvious there are a few things wrong with this box.
For one thing I haven’t put the vanishing point high enough. The ribs of the lid should look as though they were almost parallel.
There’s also something wrong with the box it self. It’s strange the the right side of the box should look as though it has a different shape then the right side.
It took me a while to realize that this is the result of the strange view point.
My field of vision is much wider then that of most people, about 180 degrees instead of 45 or 90 degrees(?). (This is a symptom of autism.)
I never realized this until I did my drawing course early last year and the teacher told us that horizons are supposed to run horizontal. The horizon I see tends to curl upward at the left and right end.
For the pictures I see in my mind I’m finding that I often see them from strange view points which sometime causes strange perspective.
Practicing perspective box with lid 3
Here’s looking down on the box.
I changed the position of the vanishing point of the ribs of the lid. This time the vanishing point not only fell beyond the frame of the picture but even beyond my table. But it’s still to close.
I also realized that the line connecting the two ribs should have the right vanishing point.
The picture still looks a bit off but it’s better then the first one.
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