Have you ever been trying to draw tiles on a wall or on the floor in perspective, but notice that after you’ve drawn them, they don’t look like they’re all the same shape or size?
Well here’s a tutorial on how to fix that.
Your picture probably looks like this, right?
Well, i’m here to tell you how to fix that…Let’s start out with your basics.
The gray line is the horizon line, and the black dot is your horizon line. These are essential for the first steps of perspective. Without these, your perspective may turn out wonky and just not flattering to the eyes. Right now we’ll work in One point perspective.
Now let’s pretend we’ll be drawing a hallway. Draw a vertical line where the edge of the wall is.
Now, from the tips of the bottom and top of your wall, you’re going to need to draw a line extending all the way to the vanishing point. If you’re working in photoshop you could either use the line tool, or shift+click. If traditional, you’ll need to use a ruler.
Now that we have the wall that’s in perspective, it’s time to draw the rest of the lines. here I’ve drawn the wall facing us that’s closest, the ceiling, the floor line, and the end of the hallway. ASSUMING that you are working in one point perspective, all vertical lines are straight and parallel to each other, and all horizontal lines are straight and parallel to each other.
Now here I have erased the lines that extended beyond the back wall, and found the center point of the edge of the left wall. From there, you draw an extended line just as before towards your vanishing point.
now make a vertical line where your first “tile” is.
now this may be a little hard to explain. Now you’re going to draw a line coming from the corner of the wall, through the corner where your line meets the tile you just drew, and all the way to the ground line.
You see where these two lines meet? you’re going to draw a vertical line to the ceiling from here.
Like so!
Now rinse and repeat! you should have perfectly even spaced tiles now! And if you have tiles on the ceiling
Just draw horizontal lines connecting to the vertical lines!
Now just erase anyhing you don’t need and…viola! Perfect tiles in perspective!!
Valuable information if some of your prized books were affected by recent flooding. The video even shows you what to do if you can’t dry the book out right away.
I’m pretending all the time to be, kinder, stronger, funnier, more sociable than I am. I guess we’re all like that but it just feels so inadequate.
What’s the difference?
I know it sounds flippant but… certain things are fundamentally performative. And other things are so close as makes no difference.
Kindness is performative. Actions are kind, and people are kind by performing those actions. You can’t “pretend” to be kinder than you are, you can only perform kindness or not perform kindness, and choosing to perform kindness is always worthwhile, no matter how much you may second-guess your motivations.
Strength is so many things. It takes strength to pretend a strength you don’t feel. And the way to achieve strength is to exercise it, so long as you do it in enough moderation to not strain or break anything. Being able to affect strength when necessary while being able to put it down again when that in turn is necessary is healthy. Everyone starts weight training with the littlest weights. It’s not fake or pretending to do what you gotta do in any given situation.
Funniness lives in the interlocutor, not in the speaker. It doesn’t matter how funny you think you are (or think you are pretending to be) – that’s not how it’s measured. At what point are you “pretending” to be a musician if the music still gets made? And often what it’s tempting to describe in first person as “pretending” is more accurately described in the third person as “practicing” – which is of course the way you cause things to Be.
Sociability is also performative. Pretending to be sociable is just…being sociable, despite a disinclination towards it. It’s making an effort towards something you value. So long as the effort is not so great that it backfires into resentment, there’s no practical difference.
Qualities or activities or whatever are no less worthy because you have to actively choose to perform them. If anything, the worthiness lies in the act of choosing. It’s not “pretending” – it’s agency.
tl;dr: ain’t nothing wrong with “fake it till you make it.” A plastic spoon* holds just as much soup as a “real” one
* I keep wanting to talk about semantic domains! Artifacts are defined by their utility, whereas living things are defined by their identity. So plastic forks are still forks, but plastic flowers aren’t flowers. So there’s two pep-talk messages to take away from this: (1) for certain things, the distinction between “fake” and “real” isn’t a relevant one so long as they still get the job done, and (2) the purpose of a living thing is to be the thing that it is. The idea of a “useless person” is as semantically nonsensical as the idea of “pretend kindness” (or fake cutlery).
i didn’t realise this was also posted but this is KINDDD of old!! here is my track art for ‘Eridan’s Theme’ for the alternia/alterniabound album art project. You can find the post it’s in >here<
Aries: CHEESE AND STUPID CRACKERS I AM A MAN NOT A PIECE OF MEAT!!!
Taurus: if you believe in stuff with enough gusto i dare say it imbues that stuff with a pinch more chutzpah. Even the fake stuff!
Gemini: Sorry you know how things can slip my mind. The gourd on my shoulders isnt the steel trap it used to be. Nothing like the well oiled puzzlebuster you’ve got up there.
Cancer: Okay. Thank you for promising to keep my trousers tidy.
Leo: I am still totally cockeyed and catawampus about it all i dont even know what to think.
Virgo: That is sure a neat sounding science fiction utopia. Wait duh i mean science reality.
Libra: Nothing is escaping that lovely ladys whistlemaker! Its shut tight as a drum!!
Scorpio: Fuck this witch i have lots of guns and reckless bravado and i want to stop her. Ill pick up where my grandma left off!
Sagittarius: Aaaaargh oh god oh god you sensed my stupid sexy thoughts i KNEW it. God DAMN you bogus brain strider!
Capricorn: I had a clown give me a nice present once too. I would never have met my good friend mr erisol without the kindness of that clown.
Aquarius: Jesus christmas you are such a fucking douche.
Pieces: Ive been feeling way out of sorts since i got sprung from the big house and dragged along to this here frog stage to suddenly bump gums with WAY too many people…
avoiding using unnecessary physical control with your animals to train them fosters a desire to work with you and a bond of trust. instead of belly-rolling or scruffing or hitting or spraying your kitten/puppy for nipping you during play, you just have to stand up and leave.
animals will very quickly understand that ‘oh, when i do this thing it causes all the fun things to stop.’ however, if you immediately resort to physical control in all circumstances, you’re teaching them that your relationship is based on fear and control and they’ll do things for you based on FEAR and not understanding.
they don’t understand why something is bad if you beat them for it, or shove their faces in something, if you don’t give them an alternative and acceptable behavior
my dog doesn’t bite me when we play because i taught her that she needs to respect that other people (and dogs and other animals) have limits and she is ALSO allowed to express her limits and will have them respected which also means that she will give plenty of warning before resorting to physical force herself (ie, she will growl and back away and other things and express very clearly she doesn’t want something instead of immediately biting and snapping unprovoked).
she knows what she’s allowed to play with because i made it that way and because she realized if she destroys her things she doesn’t get them back, and if she doesn’t destroy my things she gets to play and gets more fun and is praised and encouraged for doing things that are appropriate and she’s learned to value her things and to understand in dog-capacity that my things also have value to me, and that we can trade. she’ll try to offer her things for mine. if i have a toy of hers, 90% of the time she’ll run and grab one of her equally-valuable toys or one of my socks to trade.
it’s respect, both for boundaries and for the intelligence of your animals. not everything has to resort to physical control.
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