perspective question.

[TessaW]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen Those are great studies. Don't forget to learn about ellipses in perspective too.

I studied perspective before signing up for SVS, but I did watch the course here. What I liked about the course here is that it kind of addresses the end result in that you won't always have to follow grids and do everything perfectly and you can fudge perspective for effect, once you get comfortable with it. Sometimes when you study perspective you wonder if it's always going to be such hard work, plotting everything out. I think the course here eases your mind I bit.

I started with Successful Drawing by Andrew Loomis and just copied all his perspective stuff, including the lighting section, which also deals with perspective. It was kind of overkill, but helped a lot in the end. Shortly after I worked through Perspective Made Easy and around the same time I did "constructive drawing" with How to Draw What You See. Then I did perspective and constructive drawing at Ctrl+Paint. Every once in a while, I'll do some perspective exercises just to brush up.

It might take a bit for things to start gelling in your own work, but you just need to keep at it. Do lots of exercises and practice scenes with perspective in mind. Study it, take a nice break from it, study it again, take a break, rinse and repeat. Perspective will really make it so you can play around with your drawings and compositions a lot more and it helps with visualizing light and shading. It makes things a lot more enjoyable in the end.

[MOO]

So, here is what I have done. I just hope it works well enough. I don't expect to be published by some big company. I will publish some and sell to friends. If I ever get to the point that I feel I might have a chance otherwise (and once I can do more digitally) I might give a real publisher a chance but for now, I am learning.

[aska]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen first and last ones are very cool:)

[MOO]

@aska Thanks. I guess teh middle ones aren't
Maybe because they are uninteresting angles? I did the side view so I could get them all on with my limited ability but I didn't know that then..... I want him to be overcome with chickens and worn out. I am going to think about that. Thanks, Aska! I might need to challenge myself and practice more perspective! That will be good for me.

[TessaW]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen It's looking good. This is really funny! I'm looking forward to seeing the final on this.

[MOO]

@tessw Thank you! That means a lot I think I'll work on those two middle ones and see if I can make them more interesting

[aska]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen ii assumed we are choosing a pic out of four... if you are going to use all of them, then middle ones are ok too;) however iam not sure of second one - his face is a bit miserable, maybe too much? And the wing on his face looks strange. Anyway, your art is fun as always,;)

[ambiirae]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen oh my goodness those chickens are awesome! I love how each one has its own little thing its doing too cute!

[MOO]

@aska The chicken is hugging his face because she loves him On the second one I am trying to have him look concerned for the old chicken on his shin that has just joined the rest. The line is: " Uncle Carl has a chicken on his shin! A chicken on his shin? Yes, a chicken on his shin. It's a scraggly old chicken and it's way too thin."

The last one "uh oh! Here comes the cow!"

[MOO]

@ambiirae Thank you

[aska]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen Its cool, pls proceed Did you write your text?