Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up by Cheeseman-Meyer Jason

Author:Cheeseman-Meyer, Jason [Cheeseman-Meyer, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781600613692
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2007-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

Using the Ground Plane as the Bottom Panel Border

Some artists (including some very good ones) like to make the horizon line the ground plane and draw that line as the bottom panel border. To my eye, grounding the foreground and background figures to the same bold panel border line damages the sense of depth—plus I always start thinking about where the viewer would have to be to see that shot.

Ellipses and Cross Sections

Drawing accurate cross sections is usually not necessary. Simplifying the cross section to a circle is much faster and does what you need it to do. A few well-placed ellipses can be the key to making sense of complicated poses as you draw them.

What parts of the figure are coming towards the camera? What parts are moving away? Remember that these limbs will have their cross sections open up, and the limb itself will shorten on the page. What parts (if any) are parallel to the picture plane and so have flat ellipses and don’t foreshorten at all?

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