/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4854393
Nigger what the fuck do you think perspective IS.
How the hell is an ART board so ignorant at the very basics of art, it makes no damn sense.
Do you like think your eyes are not lenses or something?

>>2472291
Your figures are not in the same perspective as the rest and neither is the floor. There is something real strange going on with your perspective.

>>1876789
If the angles are looking too sharp/acute you're probably drawing things as if you are using a fish eyes lens. Pic related. I don't actually know what to tell you to stop drawings things that way, I never usually use much construction but things turn out looking alright. Just think a lot about perspective and try to make sense of it in your mind. I found that once I had a basic sense of perspective in my head from using guidelines and vanishing points I improved much more once I stopped drawing them down and just drew what looked right to me.

>>1754199
No problem.

Basically a wide lens amplifies perspective distortions (things close to the viewer look very close; things far away look very far). A long lens does the opposite, where it 'flattens' an image (things close look farther away than they are; things far look closer than they are). This is shown in gif related. The image is made by taking many photos using different focal length lenses, and either stepping closer or farther away from the object to keep it the same size relative to the picture frame.

In your original painting, it had a similar wide-angle lens distortion that you see in selfies. Though there are ways to plot out the perspective using station points to avoid this effect, it's much easier to eyeball it. You get a good enough feel for the approximate distortion that the human eye sees by painting still lifes and portraits from life.

There's more on that here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-angle_lens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_length#In_photography