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kittycat · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 7

Hi

I am pretty new at drawing and I have serious difficulties with drawing humans (or creatures) from imagination. I never seem to get the perspective right when drawing living things. Drawing primitive shapes in the right perspective is fairly easy to me. If I try to draw a stick figure with correct perspective I always waste it. Is there a special *trick* to drawing figures with correct perspective or is it just copying what I see in my mind?

AndyT · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 12:40 pm

Don't draw from imagination if you are new at drawing!!!
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

Anyhing can be drawn in a box btw!
Link 4

Show some of your stuff!
Let others judge if you can actually get the perspective right.

Again:
Copying what you see in your mind can't possibly work if you are new at drawing IMO!
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kittycat · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 7

ok here a sketch that I made on the fly. Please excuse the bad quality of the scan. I am pretty new to this (scanning stuf).

www.tr-racing.de/sketch/perspective-sketch.jpg

AndyT · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:24 pm

The scan is ok ... did you disable bbcode?
I don't know why the image doesn't show!

Do you know how to make a cube look like a cube?
And how to avoid distortion?
(It's not easy actually)

I guess you should read tutorials ... the Loomis Books for example.
And practice drawing from reference. I guess then you'll improve ...

http://www.gameartworks.com/LoomisBooks/successful/page_03.htm
http://www.gameartworks.com/LoomisBooks/successful/page_04.htm
http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/index.html
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kittycat · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 7

more stuff..

www.tr-racing.de/sketch/haus.jpg
www.tr-racing.de/sketch/kran.jpg
www.tr-racing.de/sketch/kamel.jpg
www.tr-racing.de/sketch/palme.jpg

btw can I get some advice how to get the scans a bit more clean?

anyway.. feel free to bitch around Laughing

AndyT · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:44 pm

That's actually pretty neat!
You can try to play with the scanner settings a little.
The images look overexposed (�berbelichtet *) i think.
Maybe there's something to fix that in the settings ...

The perspective looks great.
You should just try to get the lines more straight.

* German filenames! You are/speak German?
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kittycat · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 7

Ich kann deutsch da ich in Deutschland geboren wurde - bin aber Jugoslawe..
�berbelichtet? Ich hab mit dem *levels* - Teil in Photoshop rumgefummelt damit das Teil etwas sauber aussieht..

I will keep the stuff in english so others can follow the subject.

thx for the flowers! All this (except the little flower) is drawn from life. I want the things that I draw from my mind to look correct (perspective).

*edit*

Gibt�s das *Loomis Succesful Drawing* auch als ganze pdf? (also nicht einzelne Seiten)?

AndyT · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 2:03 pm

Yeah the links should help. Understand how perspective works ... more than just school stuff.
Drawing from reference and especially from life will help you with drawing from your mind eventually!

That's important to know!

You have to build some kind of library to draw from.
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pierre · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:13 pm

kittycat, pay as much attention to foreshortening as perspective (sometimes they get mixed up, but they are related though).