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Help with drawing a meadow


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Hi there,

 

My question isn't really about AD as it's about how to improve my drawing skills using AD. I'm trying to draw a meadow with a river running through it. I've drawn the left side of the meadow so far. The question I have is regarding the positioning of the meadow. Right now it looks like someone's looking down at it from up above; what I'd like to do is change it so that it appears that someone's looking at it sitting down. Not sure if I'm explaining it well, but I tried playing with the grass on the edges and the shading around the corners but it still looks like it's being viewed from top down.

 

Any ideas are much appreciated :)

 

thanks.

 

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update...just uploaded the afd file as jpg uploads are failing for some reason.

Not sure why, but the jpg file upload is failing with this error on both Chrome and edge browsers; the file is less than 2MB. Anyone else encounter this issue?

There was a problem processing the uploaded file. -200
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When I d-loaded the file, it was in excess of 30 Mb. I deleted a duplicate pixel layer, and got it down to 15+ Mb.

 

But never mind that. A technical issue.

 

You need to study perspective. Let me suggest this page. (BTW, the resources Mr. McEvoy provide are among the best ever). The problem w. your picture is that the implied  horizon line is way up off the top of the page.

 

Simple answer, take the 2 layer groups and squish them down by at least 60%, and stretch them horizontally  by about 50%. It'll look like a piece of lawn viewed from a front door.

 

BetterHorizon.jpg.ac8b52fef9659461d9aa1e71ccf2deab.jpg

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