Hi everyone!
Perspective is hard. I knew that!
But I naively thought that once the theory had been assimilated (the theory isn't that complicated, really!) the practical side would come naturally.
Nope!
After studying the various theoretical aspects of perspective, I start doing some exercises on paper, and since drawing cubes in perspective is really easy, when it's time to do some complex objects... hum... 😅
In fact, I think I've skipped a few steps. The last attempt, the fire hydrant, was a disaster.
I feel like I'm always aiming too high and having to say "well, I'll go back to something simpler" 😅.
Let's look at where it went wrong.
Tracing the first shape didn't look too difficult. It's the "trace the cube in perspective" step, so it's easy for now 😂.
Then I made my first mistake: my wheels are too small. (and the ellipses are really ugly 😱).
And it is something I struggle with in perspective, to find the right proportions. I mean, if it is half, it is easy to trace the diagonals and find the centre. But what if it is 2/3 or 3/5 of a proportion?
So I try to do with my eyes what you might call intuitive perspective, but I don't seem to be very good at it yet lol.
And then the rest looks disproportionate, strange in a way...
I must say that I wasn't trying to make a classic car, it's a toy car.
So after that failure, I tried to make a quick sketch of how I would have liked it to look.
This time, it's a completely intuitive perspective render, as I didn't use any markers and did it from a guess.
The toy car looks much more proportioned, but very imprecise; the line is very unstable, there's no real sense of volume, and the wheels don't fit into any 3D plane.
There's a problem with this (maybe it's just a personal problem): I need real perspective to increase my sense of 3D, so that I can instinctively draw it more realistically.
But to represent real perspective, if I don't find a way to measure precisely, I tend to use an intuitive perspective, or at least intuitive proportions.
So... I already know the answer, and I'm sure you do too: I should keep practising!
(and also learn more about measuring in perspective, it's so hard 😱)
Hope you will find it interesting!
See you soon for more.