kinetic_be wrote:
I tried to make a 3d cube.
Once I drew the perspective lines, I made the shape, gave it a base color and started to brush highlights and shadows.
Yet, once colored, the box seems totaly out of whack.
Are my eyes cheating on me, or are the perspectives all wrong here?
Simple things are always a lot more complicated than they first appear.
The main point about perspective lines in fact any scaffolding is that they are always bigger in area than your work.
For example, a photo-real drawing can be thought of as a kin to building a house.
It a construction that takes steps.
Much like construction your scaffold will be larger than your image, so make your canvas larger than the final output to accommodate that. This will help you in photographs find the perspective lines and aid thinking outside the box. For example when chopping in Depth of field objects that jump out.
Next you need to plan your Width, Height and Depth making markings on your construction lines allows you to keep to scale.
After these have been finished the you can start to create the basic frame of the object.
Then a base colour
Then base tones
Then build up from there with tiny additions until eventually you have built your image.
This is the only thing I have to really show on it, it was done with a mouse and TBH it still needs more work the chest is the only thing chopped I know the lighting is bad but it's just a top down in-candy cos I didn't have my lighting kit back when I made this.
