[Isen]

Ok, so I had to do a landscape for a final in my collage drawing course. This is how it turned out



Feel free to rag it if you really feel that way. I do kind of want an honest opinion on it. Or if you want you can just stare at it.

[Emily]

Did you use the computer with this? Like on paint or something?

[Isen]

Yes this was done in microsoft paint, My class is an online one.

[Quoth the Raven]

It seems like the vanishing points are too close together for the distance that we are away from the front corner. =/ Also the window in the door is off perspective a little. The trees are good though.

[Emily]

Okay, now is the time for my critic.

I think you did a really good job on this. Honestly, I don't think I could do Microsoft Paint if my life depended on it. I'm guessing you have had quite a bit of experience, due to what your project looks like. The trees are amazing. But QR, it doesn't look out of perspective to me at all. I think it looks fine.

[avid reader]

YOU DID THAT ON PAINT???....... holy crappers.... I cannot even make a decent smiley face on paint... that's impressive....

But yeah... some of the windows are a little off... the trees are cool... especially the one on the left. I cannot really begin to critique this because there is no way I could do any better.

[Arthryn]

Seems like a pretty typical/basic exercise in two-point perspective. As has been mentioned before, the vanishing points are way too close together for the perspective to look realistic. If you take a photograph of a house and draw the perspective lines, you'll see that the vanishing points are well off the page. I just personally hate exaggerated perspective because I have no depth perception, which means I interpret depth via perspective, so when it's off/exaggerated, it really really bugs me. But for a basic perspective drawing, it's okay.

However, the super high contrast bugs me, especially in combination with the splatter brush effect and no anti-aliasing to be seen anywhere. I'd soften it up a lot by just not using the splatter/air brush or whatever it is, and just use solid colors or a round brush, and also I'd try to lessen the contrast. For instance, go with a charcoal gray instead of straight up black.

And any reason it's in Paint? I know that I'd get murdered if I tried to hand in an art/design based project that I made in Paint. Unless it's been cited as an okay program to use, or the point is to be 'conceptual' or ironic or whatever. If you don't have Photoshop, try downloading GIMP to have access to some better image editing capabilities.

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, there's no soft brush in Paint, just hard pixels, so I guess it's pretty good . . .but what's that giant dark streak in the very front?

[Isen]

Actually this class is strictly internet based and our teacher told us to use paint for everything. I actually thought that odd as well, and found it was quite difficult for the first few weeks to get things they way you want them.

Yeah my teacher likes a lot of different shadings and whatnot, but I decided to shade it this way due to the fact it was at night. I wanted it to be darker than any of the other work we have turned into him because I prefere the dark and creepy looking pictures. We were given free reign over what the landscape would be so I chose something I thought would be more my style.

The black streak... hmm if it is the thing coming off of the pillar on the porch that would be the shadow cast by the light that is located behind the pillar... which I purposely put there so I wouldn't have to draw it. haha! (if you look at the other porch like that the pillar is casting a similar shadow.)

Thanks for looking and commenting.