Thoughts on this composition?
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@kirsten-mcg Andrew Loomis has an excellent book with a few pages on how to project figures in perspective, which if understood can really help you tackle the problem of how to scale figures properly in perspective when they are standing in different planes. Otherwise you might inadvertently find yourself drawing a character much bigger or smaller than you intended in relation to another, or even floating above or sunken into the ground! - and a viewer might find things seem "off", even they can't put their finger on what exactly is "off".
These two pages on common errors in perspective are also helpful:
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@JQ Thats so much for taking the time to really explain all this! The draw over of the kid in the front really helped me to understand/remember how sizing characters in perspective works. And the pages below are helpful too. I'm saving them to refer to later.
One of my struggles with perspective, especially when drawing interiors, is that sometimes when I'm trying to come up with a composition, I have trouble making the perspective correct, but also making the composition work. I draw the perspective correctly, and it throws off my composition. Or vise versa. Is this just an experience thing? And I'll get better the more I do it? Or are there tricks?
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@kirsten-mcg Yeah it's not easy! I often find myself working on something from a compositional POV then realize that the perspective doesn't make sense and have to start reworking things.
I need to do this more too, but I feel one way is to build in your perspective grid from the start of your compositional thumbnailing, even if it's just really rough horizon and converging lines going to the VP.
And I do think doing perspective exercises and "perspective master copies" does help you build more intuition. In the Loomis book I linked above he has several drawing examples demonstrating the use of different perspective techniques. I spent some time before copying his compositions and studying/understanding how he builds them with perspective. It ingrains the principles much better than just reading and looking at the images passively. I'm sure you could find other artists' whose work and use of perspective you admire and practise master copies too!
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I think this composition works but make sure to align the oven properly to it’s vanishing points. The non perfect perspective stuff is working elsewhere but the the oven is what breaks the believability for me.
Also, maybe you haven’t gotten this far yet but adding smaller objects in the background will create more appeal. Little things on the mantle, a clock on the wall. That sort of thing
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Here is my finished piece with color. Thanks so much for your thoughts and suggestions everyone! As usual, they helped with this piece, and will continue to help me with future pieces as well!
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@kirsten-mcg super cute, great job
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@kirsten-mcg Beautifully rendered!
(lol, now I realize they are all dragons, not giraffes. That makes sense XD)
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@JQ In your defense, the sketch I posted was pretty rough lol! Your assumption that they were giraffes was completely valid!
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Looks good but is he missing a horn?
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@Asyas_illos you're right! Thanks! Fresh eyes are invaluable.
