Hallå pals! Jonas here with another issue of Indie Notebook to get some ideas out of my noggin, and to inspire you to do the same. Style Solution This deer is technically not that accurate. Yet, I managed to make an interesting interpretation of one. I’m no expert on anatomy, volume, or really any particular aspect of drawing. I just have a general idea of volume and how body parts are shaped (and a few other things). All together that adds up to something okay. A coat of derpiness on top of it also helps make those shortcomings look more intentional. For instance look at the face of the deer, very simple, quite silly. It looks like the deer is either looking into the camera suggesting the snout is pointing this way, or that the deer’s face is flat with a silly/panicked reaction. I like that ambiguity.
The deer picture had me wonder how accurate it would be for a deer, with eyes on the sides of its head, to look straight forward to see something. (https://deerassociation.com/deer-can-see-even-theyre-eating/) made me find it plausible, though I still haven't observed deer enough to know how they really act; would they go through the effort to put you in their "binocular overlap?"
That was a fun read! I like to think of vanishing points as representing any arbitrary 3d rotation; I can imagine them without drawing them, and this allows me to create cool wide-angle or telephoto effects as well. :)
The deer picture had me wonder how accurate it would be for a deer, with eyes on the sides of its head, to look straight forward to see something. (https://deerassociation.com/deer-can-see-even-theyre-eating/) made me find it plausible, though I still haven't observed deer enough to know how they really act; would they go through the effort to put you in their "binocular overlap?"
That was a fun read! I like to think of vanishing points as representing any arbitrary 3d rotation; I can imagine them without drawing them, and this allows me to create cool wide-angle or telephoto effects as well. :)