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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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