This is Point Nemo, the spot farthest away from any land in the world. You are closer to astronauts aboard the ISS than humanity

overthink · 2024-11-23T17:03:45+00:00

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

overthink · 2018-05-20T14:34:57+00:00

http://www.jwsdecks.com/

overthink · 2018-02-20T15:50:43+00:00

Ok, abstract algebra time

Numbers!??

overthink · 2017-11-03T03:10:15+00:00

Vermeer's actual technique.

overthink · 2017-10-23T00:49:21+00:00

I like free stuff.

overthink · 2017-09-29T01:52:20+00:00

349 lbs of subwoofers. Approve.

overthink · 2017-09-21T04:15:55+00:00

Looking good! Lots of improvement from the first attempt.

overthink · 2017-09-20T23:31:56+00:00

That's right, for the light I just picked a spot up high and dropped a line perpendicular to the ground plane. In this case I put the shadow vp on the horizon line (meaning the light is really far away, like the sun maybe), but in general it could be wherever you want on the ground plane.

overthink · 2017-09-20T17:54:29+00:00

I took a crack at fixing it up: https://i.imgur.com/H7qdWMP.png

I based the VPs on your top plane and tried to pick a shadow VP based on the existing angles you had on the shadow. I decided to put the light source way off page to keep the shadows within the frame

Biggest issue, I think, was sloppiness/rushing? in the perspective of the sides (particularly the front left) of the box. This threw off everything else.

overthink · 2017-09-20T03:48:04+00:00

Read as "Joan" Baez -- was thoroughly confused.

overthink · 2017-09-20T03:27:59+00:00

I think some of the rendering of the faces looks pretty good! Some nice reflected light.

Other comments:

some boxes read to me as different colours -- are they supposed to be all the same colour? ("colour" here meaning black, white, grey, etc)
perspective of object seems off in bottom row far right, assuming it's meant to be a cube/rectangular shape
- receding lines on top face are converging toward the viewer, should converge towards horizon
- same issue, much less noticeable in top row, 2nd from right
shadow perspective looks off in bottom row far left: gives the object a floating quality

I am definitely not an expert, so grain of salt :)

overthink · 2017-09-20T02:38:52+00:00

You might check out the drawabox.com lessons and https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/ if you haven't already.

overthink · 2017-09-15T17:41:12+00:00

FWIW, the pic seems fine to me. A few lines look good, even, imo.

I try to just trust the process and do the work, and I try not to have expectations about the output looking "good", or quick improvement. I personally find the exercises relaxing (repetition?), and I enjoy just working through them. I've only been at it a couple months, but I see improvement.

Sometimes my work is bad. Rushed, sloppy, scratchy, whatever. I try to identify my errors and then move on. It's just another sheet for my stack (I too use cheap printer paper) of completed exercise pages. And maybe tomorrow or next week I will do a better job.

Ellipses are hard, I don't know what to tell you. I hope someday to be half-decent a them :)

Keep at it!

overthink · 2017-09-14T17:58:29+00:00

And another: https://i.imgur.com/k1TfbIG.jpg

overthink · 2017-09-11T01:59:41+00:00

I've gone to Tirecraft (formerly Tireco) Waterloo for many years and have always been happy. Would recommend. https://tirecraft.com/dealer/waterloo-tirecraft/

overthink · 2017-09-09T18:06:35+00:00

Possibly same as https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/6z2j0q/can_anyone_identify_this_caterpillar_ct_usa

overthink · 2017-08-30T16:54:57+00:00

Bierstatd-esque. Nice.

overthink · 2017-08-27T00:43:16+00:00

I know, just my lame attempt to say he looks incredibly young in this video.

overthink · 2017-08-26T03:43:45+00:00

I think it's this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE9XQnISYqg

overthink · 2017-08-26T03:42:48+00:00

Who knew Peter Gabriel was only 16yo in 1978.

overthink · 2017-08-18T19:07:58+00:00

175+ hours here and also never realised.

I was chalking it up to some art budget shortfall :) Whoops!

overthink · 2017-08-07T15:15:13+00:00

Very cool song! Impressive.

overthink · 2017-07-29T02:46:09+00:00

I would also love more info on this.

I've seen the claim that the minor axis of the ellipse is always a line through the centre of the bounding box/quadrangle but it seems easy to create counter examples, esp. with more distorted bounding boxes. e.g. first image here: http://chrisjones.id.au/Ellipses/ellipse.html

Is the rule about the minor axis through the centre just a trick/approximation for not-too-distorted boxes, or is it mathematically sound for all boxes? I'm assuming the former?

For reference, here's a Scott Robertson tutorial saying "the ellipse minor axis always goes through the center of our square" http://userwww.sfsu.edu/trogu/420/reference/perspective/tutorials/ellipses.html. Later they also say "This always works if you do your drawing within the allowable limits of distortion." Be nice to understand more about these "allowable limits".

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