problems with perception and proportion.

[ceenda]

I recently went back to doing traditional sketching and painting.

I've noticed that all my work seems horribly slanted and out of proportion and there doesn't seem to be any way that I can recognise this at the time.

I'm wondering whether I've over-used horizontal-flipping in digital painting so much that I've forgotten the discipline of getting it right in the first instance.

Is it something that one can learn, or am I destined to suck? :(

http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~nicholas/crap_1.jpg

http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~nicholas/crap_2.jpg

[MindCandyMan]

One thing I have noticed is that when I am drawing in a sketchbook I tend to place it at an angle on my lap...I think something to be really conscious of is where your hand is in relation to where you are drawing. If you can get an easel I would do that...focing yourself to stand or sit makes the drawing more active and also keep it straight up and down in front of you.

[pibb991]

its probably the angle your drawing from. at my old apartment i did a drawing on the floor and it looked like it looked accurate till i put it on the wall to look at it and it was doing something sillimar to your problem.

[franz]

Originally posted by pibb991
its probably the angle your drawing from. at my old apartment i did a drawing on the floor and it looked like it looked accurate till i put it on the wall to look at it and it was doing something sillimar to your problem.

I hate when that happens :mad: Foreshortening of the picture can be so irritating.. Did you know that this was actually used as a device/effect by some old masters?

Hans Holbein: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/13/NG1314/eNG1314.jpg

It's much easier to see when it's on the wall in a gallery rather than on a computer screen.. You'd have to put your head pretty much *through* your desk and very close to the lower left corner of your monitor, almost behind it really, and then look at the painting if you want to see the effect :) I really wonder how he went about painting this..

[ceenda]

Thanks guys!

I played around with the Horizontal and Vertical perspective in a 2D package and I can get it looking alot closer, so that must be where the distortion is coming from.

franz: Yeah, it's an awesome painting. :chug: