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Drawing a table and chair and solving some perspective problems.
While scanning my last drawing I realized that something was wrong with the angle of the seat. But I didn’t understand how that could be.
Using a box to show me the perspective means that I’m, in a sense, making two drawings. One of a box and one of a chair.
I hadn’t realized that I should check the perspective of the box before I start with the chair. If I forget to do that it becomes impossible to go back and correct it.
I was a little nervous seeing as I thought that this would be the most complicated drawing since I started with perspective. And it was.
After drawing the table it took me a while before I realized that a drawing not only can have multiple vanishing points but that it makes the drawing more interesting. Nobody lines up his furniture perfectly so you shouldn’t draw it that way.
I also had a little problem with point of view. What can I see from where I’m standing?
It took me a while to realize that I can’t see one of the legs of the table because the chair is in front of it.
What you can and can’t see seems very obvious until you try to draw it.
Box table and chair
This will be my last box drawing for a while. I’m getting a little bored with it. At some point I’ll have to get back at it but for now I’m going to concentrate on cylinders
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Using the method of first drawing a box I drew a cupboard and a table.
This was much easier then I had expected. It really makes all the difference in the world if you know what you are doing.
For the cupboard I drew a large box with the horizon somewhere in the middle of the box. Then I added the doorknobs and the shape of the drawer and finished of with the legs.
It took me all of 5 minutes.
While I was scanning the drawing I realized that I had made a little mistake and drawn the hind leg in the wrong place. But when I added a box to measure where the hind leg should come I found that it was in the right place after all.
Cupboard perspective
The table was a little harder to do.
At first I wanted to draw curved leg. But I soon found that is more difficult the draw. Square legs come in the corner of the table, but I’m not sure where I should draw curved legs.
The other problem I had was that I almost forgot that the hind legs also should have perspective. For some reason it’s very tempting to only draw the big shapes (the bulk of the cupboard and the table top) in perspective and forget little things as legs.
Table perspective
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Drawing free hand perspective boxes
I started this series of drawings of boxes with the remark from the book that it is better to learn to draw straight lines free hand. The reasoning being that it is cumbersome if you have to carry a ruler around.
But drawing boxes free hand I had the feeling that it introduced a lot of mistakes.
After doing a number of perspective boxes with a ruler I find that the way perspective reshapes a box is so unexpected that it really doesn’t matter if the drawing is mathematical correct.
People won’t see the difference.
Free hand perspective boxes
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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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Practicing perspective.
The book advices to try to use free hand straight lines while drawing in perspective. But as my lines get longer I find it more difficult to draw straight. Which is a problem when you try to draw in perspective.
When drawing in perspective the point where lines intersect are very important. When drawing free hand the lines aren’t completely straight so these points change place.
At the moment I find it more important to understand perspective then to draw free hand so I’m using a ruler.
Practicing perspective box with lid
I think I drew the perspective of the box the way it should but there is something wrong with the lid.
Trying with a slanted piece of paper it seems to me that the vanishing point should be in the left lower corner. But drawing it that way it looks as thought something is wrong.
Maybe it’s just because it is a very large box.
A bigger problem is that the size doesn’t seems the match the box. The left side of the lid is the same length as the width of the box but it seems shorter. On the right side the lid seems shorter and is shorter.
Of course the importance of the intersecting lines is that you find the right rear corners by having the lines from the front corners to the vanishing point intersect. I’ll do the drawing tomorrow.
Practicing perspective part of a chair
The perspective of the part of the chair seems alright. The only problem is that I didn’t draw it to proportion. As a result it looks as though the right side of the chair is larger then the left side.
Looking at my drawing I just figured out how to calculate the proportion for the hind leg. I’ll try it tomorrow.
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