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« on: January 10, 2014, 02:43:36 AM »

I'm a programmer, but I try to delve into other forms of art to expand my understanding of them, and to hopefully be better at communicating with people of different skill sets. So I've put some time into drawing, but not much.
I've spent a couple of hours just now trying to draw an inanimate object as practice, and I came up with this.


Full size at: http://i.imgur.com/koGhCJU.png

I do know that the color balance is off, and I'll try to do more work on that, but what I'm more curious about, is how you guys keep things properly aligned. For example in my drawing, the roof tilts weirdly and the furnace bends. I started by drawing a sketch as best I could, and then started coloring.
Do you guys get the alignments perfect with the sketch, and if so, do you use any technique to manage that? Or do you perfect alignments afterwards, and again, how?

I should also ask, how do you color the backside of the wall (the one by the furnace) properly, when the light isn't supposed to hit it? The current color doesn't fit with the rest of the wall
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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2014, 05:21:41 AM »

I think what you are looking for is called "vanishing points".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_point
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2014, 12:20:49 PM »

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll research more intro vanishing points then.
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