Basic Perspective Drawing Final Assignment

Sonja M

Finished the final assignment for the Basic Perspective Drawing. Thanks for the great course. Before that I always had difficulties with distortion in my paintings... now I know why.

But I still find it quite difficult to find the right point of view or rather the right places for the vanishing points. When I was drawing I realized, that my VP was actually outside the room... still decided to finish it, pretending some of the walls were "invisible".
Are there any tipps on finding the right Point of View?

Comments on how to improve are most welcome.

Jav Muz

Wow that looks really good!

davidhohn

@Sonja-M
Nicely done! You've actually got your "vanishing points" just right.
What you've discovered is that you "station point" (that is, the place there the viewer is standing to observe the room) is outside the room.

This is an easy fix. Simply crop in tighter to the scene. And remove any elements (in this case the bookcase and the dresser) that you can see the back of.

Imagine that this is a television or movie set.
The camera (the viewer) has been set too far back. Areas of the sound stage that are outside the room set are visible to the camera. What would the director do?
They would instruct the camera person to "pull in tighter" so only the bedroom set was visible in the camera frame.
I did that to your drawing by cropping in a bit more.

And then what would they do being able to see the backside of the shelves and dresser?
They'd have the prop person remove them for this angle of the shot.
I did that to your drawing by erasing them out.

All the director is worried about is creating a believable "illusion" of the interior of a bedroom so the audience will focus on the storytelling. Same is true for an illustrator!

Sonja M

@Jav-Muz Thank you!

Sonja M

@davidhohn Thank you so much for your explanation and your work on my picture. The example with of the Film studio is very helpful. I'll definitely keep that in mind.

HollyOakley

You've done really good! I really struggle with perspective. Its one of those classes I need to watch a few times