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Try out these two perspective drawing tricks to improve your accuracy. The 'X' and 'X-ray' techniques are great for getting the alignment, symmetry, and proportions right when constructing a drawing.
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Too Sleepy
28d
That’s was a amazing experience learning The ‘X’ and the ‘X-ray’
@wegneran
28d
Oooooh, Minecraft!!!!! Great job!
Nancy Larson
1mo
It's essential to have those lines straight to make this work! Good practice.
Wesley
2mo
Bro the x trick is so fricking useful
Wesley
2mo
And it’s a No-Brainer
@shaaneeq
2mo
This was fun.
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2mo
Very nice! You even got that head turn!
@mstefan
3mo
Hi! This is my attempt for this demonstration.
Wesley
2mo
My brother would die, nice job
VAGABOND
3mo
Pat Lou
3mo
This was fun to do!
J M
3mo
There is something off about the head... but I can't see what it is.
My guess is that I messed up some of the angles at one point, and that slowly added up to the head having a weird, unnatural shape rather than a cube.
@whatsthemoonmadeof
4mo
My attempt!
@harrow
5mo
Dtawing a centerline along the side of the torso made it a lot easier to judge the depth of the head.
@linetime
5mo
Don’t know who Steve is but apparently it’s this guy!
@eren666
5mo
It's jack black
@osrour
5mo
pinkfin
6mo
I forgot to save line art after fixing the head:(. But second photo head is fixed! Had a lot of fun drawing:)
Patrick Alexander Büchi
6mo
Minecraft Steve right around the time when the minecraft movie came out, what a funny coincidence!
Arthur Nesbitt
6mo
That was a good exercise 👍
hobodios
6mo
I choose a really hard image I think the arms don't make sense I could NOT find a way to make them look similar to the picture while also keeping it 2 point perspective. The sword looks weird but everything overall doesn't make sense because the perspective in the reference threw me off.
Also I have a question how are you supposed to use the X trick if a box is in a different angle (legs/arms for example) they are in a different position and angle so I'm not sure how to apply the trick there, anyways thanks!
Laurent Van Acker
6mo
I think it still looks good, but I know what you mean. The sword looks foreshortened on the reference, it follows the plane in the center of the arms, not of the left arm which looks more like what you did (also explains why it's thicker in the reference.)
Note that because each limb is in a different direction (even the head), each limb has its own vanishing points, which is also why you can't use the X trick, but would need to work with projections and mathematical measurements (afaik :D) if you want to be entirely correct. However, I think you eyeballed it really well :)
I think you could still use the X trick to help your measurements/eyeballing of the limbs, eg doubling the torso down would give you a good reference on where the right leg would end up
Tommy Pinedo
7mo
This was so fun to do lol. Might have messed up on the lines connecting to the vanishing point because I was doing a lot of ghosting.
Cant wait for the movie in April! 😃
@goobish
7mo
Nicole
7mo
Tommy Pinedo
7mo
I can’t wait for the movie 🍿
@solobo
9mo
Tried a few at different locations relative to the vanishing points... Good practice figuring out proportions! Anything look really off?
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