The human form in a chair

The next lesson in the book is the human form in a chair. Tired of dealing with trying to get the perspective on the stool, I thought this would be a good change of pace. It worked out OK. The drawings always look better in the pictures I think, so it is good to see them.

Discovering parallel lines

Today I decided to go for the chairs again, are they looking any better?


My sister in law came over yesterday, and she is actually good at drawing. I asked her about the chair and she mentioned keeping parallel lines, and she was right. The trick to getting the seat up there at the top was just to keep it parallel with the seat I drew at the back two legs! Really I could make that top right corner of the chair anyway. I am sure that the book mentioned this...but as it goes with learning it takes reading, trying, having someone tell you, and then trying again.

The struts across the bottom of the legs are still a bit tricky, but I will get em'!

Perspective Again

As it happens, perspective is going to take more than two days to master. So today's exercise is an office chair, tricky because the seat might not match up with the feet. To combat this the book advises drawing legs down from the seat, which I did. It didn't turn out too bad, though I feel the neck is a little long, which is mainly cause I didn't take enough time to measure.

A Study on Perspective

The point of this exercise was to gain an understanding of depth and perspective. So it was good to draw some cubes and see how the angles of the lines affected the angle that the box appeared. Then I tried to draw some chairs that matched the chair in the book I am using. The whole trick with the chair is the seat, the part that juts out from the legs. The book had the top right corner of the seat in line with the top of the chair. The bottom right chair is my attempt at this, but I think I failed. I will try again another day. As is, I don't think my other two chairs turned out too too bad, but they were not at the same angle as the book, which was the whole point of understanding perspective.