12-29-2009, 09:35 AM
To be honest perspective isn't a strong point of mine, either.
Did you use the vanishing point in regards to the creatures, too? I think thats the main problem, they look to me like they're mostly standing on a different plane to the table.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perspective-Arti...09&sr=1-11
Here's the book I've been looking at recently; it's kind of a "bare minimum" thing, but I find it's a lot more straightforward than a lot of books on perspective for the simple fact that it starts from the ground up. It does have an excercise for drawing figures in perspective, but it's a little light on detail with regards to drawing people of differing size while still retaining perspective. There's chapters previously which talk about varied sized objects in perspective, so you have to apply what you've learned in previous lessons rather than pick-and-choose excercises depending on what you need to do.
I've also had the following book recommended to me before, which I'm told is far more in-depth:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Perspective-...815&sr=8-1
But I've not tried it yet, so I can't personally say much about it.
Did you use the vanishing point in regards to the creatures, too? I think thats the main problem, they look to me like they're mostly standing on a different plane to the table.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perspective-Arti...09&sr=1-11
Here's the book I've been looking at recently; it's kind of a "bare minimum" thing, but I find it's a lot more straightforward than a lot of books on perspective for the simple fact that it starts from the ground up. It does have an excercise for drawing figures in perspective, but it's a little light on detail with regards to drawing people of differing size while still retaining perspective. There's chapters previously which talk about varied sized objects in perspective, so you have to apply what you've learned in previous lessons rather than pick-and-choose excercises depending on what you need to do.
I've also had the following book recommended to me before, which I'm told is far more in-depth:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Perspective-...815&sr=8-1
But I've not tried it yet, so I can't personally say much about it.