Rotation on an inclined plane issue
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@debora_
Hello :) I started Proko’s figure drawing fundamentals a little less than a year ago and have reached the landmarks stage. I’ve been continuously practicing boxes on the side, and recently came across Steven Zapata’s box men course. I’ve started drawing box men, applying my knowledge of perspective from the Marshall Vandruff’s old perspective course, and Joseph D’Amelio’s ‘Perspective drawing handbook’. I’ve been trying to improve drawing box figures from memory, by thinking more about how the body actually moves (joints rotating or moving like a hinge). I’ve gotten used to drawing boxes that connect and move in relation to one another like a hinge, and haven’t been pushing to apply other body mechanics to the box figures. In trying to fix this, I have started drawing boxes that rotate in more than 2 ways – rotating on the ‘y’ axis, then rotating on either the ‘x’ or ‘z’ axis to create inclined planes, and then rotating the inclined box. This is where I’ve run into an issue of understanding perspective, especially when it comes to rotating the box on an inclined plane. I know that the vanishing points on an inclined plane heads towards the vanishing trace. But what happens when you rotate the box whilst it’s on a vanishing trace? From what I’ve gathered from D’Amelio’s book, a vanishing point of an inclined plane can have its own ‘horizon’ line? What happens when an inclined box is rotated? Does that mean the vanishing points spin on both the eye level/main horizon line, and on the vanishing trace ‘horizon’ line? I’ve attached an image to explain what I mean. This was my own experiment to see if that’s how an inclined box would spin in space, so I know it’s not correct. If someone could offer some sort of explanation as to how this rotation works, that would be wonderful. I’m not sure if I’m over-complicating and over-thinking it, or if there’s a really simple answer to it. If anyone also has some learning resources on this, could you please share them? This is a long post, so thank you to anyone who reads this :)
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Izak van Langevelde
You're not over-complicating: this is complicated stuff. Just like you can construct vanishing points for directions in the horizontal plane, you can do so in the vertical plane. For figure drawing, this becomes way too technical, and it is typically eye-balled...
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@debora_
Ah I see, thank you :) I knew I was breaching into the more complex side of perspective. But, I like understanding what's happening with the vanishing point,s rather than drawing the boxes randomly. I'll try eyeballing it. Thanks for your help :)
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Steve Lenze
Hey Debora, I hope I understand your question, but I think your talking about the box that is tilted in the middle. I did a quick sketch to show you what is happening. Basically your creating a 3 point perspective, and you need to add another vanishing point. I hope I answered your question :)
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@debora_
Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply :) Sorry I don't think my question was clear :) Basically I'm asking what happens to 2 of the vanishing points that are on a vanishing trace, if you want to rotate the box after tilting it. With the example I've attached here, the 'y' and 'x' axis are on the vanishing trace since I've previously rotated the box on the 'z' axis. But my issue is what happens if I then want to rotate that inclined box on its 'y' axis. What happens to the 'x' and 'z' vanishing points? How do they move since they're on different horizon lines?
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