Think Draw - Picture - Castle over the hills

Title: Castle over the hills
created on 23 Nov 09

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1. Shanley wrote: still not content with the perspective. supposed to have a view to the castle from the top of a hill (as described in the 'how to' forum). :\|
2. five wrote: okay -- try imagining a complete curve that moves down and in from where you are on the top of the hill (helps to put yourself on the hill and to one side) and then rights itself at the the castle... The castle can be static as seen front he front.
3. five wrote: you've tried from dead on forward here, instead of from the side, when at the top of the hill -- and it's harder because there is less you can do with diagonals and more you need to do with value and color shifts
4. Shanley wrote: Just my point...how do you work with that? Notice this green pinaple items? the lines have divergence, not convergence. tried to replace them with the kiwi shell, butthose diagonal lines are not a good choice either.
5. Shanley wrote: the kiwis where supposed to start building up the hill. As for the castle, I kept the same texture so it would look static as you say.
6. five wrote: your kiwi's are floating -- I did a quick schematic doodle in avatars -- I'll see if I can one in fruit ....
7. five wrote: really, though, this is a nice picture
8. Shanley wrote: lol, just posted on yours. maybe we should've kept this on the forum. doesn't really matter, but just to avoid looking for the comments. you are right. they end up floating. probably would've been a good thing if i had planned to have a floating castle, l
9. Shanley wrote: i'm looking forward to see how you draw this
10. Shanley wrote: ( i should have taken the time to at least cover the base of the kiwis :P )
11. five wrote: I posted a quick fruit drawing -- I should have situated the castle a little lower in the picture but hopefully the idea is there
12. five wrote: for the observer in the center-- you went in the right direction -- I'd think of it as three concentric circles -- largest to smallest (the smallest contains the castle and the rim where the viewer sits is the largest) descending topographically but not e
13. five wrote: not evening, e,g shift the medium circle to the right in the big circle and the small circle to the right in the medium circle and make the castle smaller so it does not pop outside it's small circle
14. five wrote: I posted another one -- in fruit, using the concentric circle idea. You can see on your drawing here, you only have one circle -- follow the lone between the orange slices and the green bits -- it actually continues around to make a circle but then you d
15. five wrote: do not have smaller circle for the castle and the castle is too big in relative terms. Also, it's nice the way the top red bits float forward