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Cameo (Feb 19, 2007)

I'm gonna be a Modern Day Drifter
Get out while I can.
Gonna trade in this life I've been livin'
for a pocket full of sand.
And a Modern Day drifter don't have to tell no one his plans.

I'm gonna find that lost stretch of highway
Where no one knows my name.
Where as long as the sky just goes on
And it's never the same.
And a Modern Day Drifter don't ever complain.

Bye Bye
How life
Feels like the right time
Keep on going strong
And I'll just keep on being gone.

Cause I'm gonna be a Modern Day Drifter
Yes I am.
Gonna slip this ring off my finger
Cause everybody understands.
That a Modern Day Drifter's got nothing but time on his hands.

Dierks Bentley

Cameo (Feb 19, 2007)
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Cameo (Feb 19, 2007)
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Cameo (Feb 19, 2007)
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Axil62 (Feb 19, 2007)

the road needs to be at least as wide as the canvas at the bottom and much narrower at the horizon. Perspective, vanishing point.

Cameo (Feb 19, 2007)
drawn in 21 min

Thanks, Axil! I realize that after I had looked at it for a while. I'll fix it tomarrow!

Cameo (Feb 20, 2007)
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Cameo (Feb 20, 2007)
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Cameo (Feb 20, 2007)
drawn in 9 min

davincipoppalag (Feb 20, 2007)

Nice Cami...much better

marcello (Feb 20, 2007)

It's worth noting that the previous perspective wasn't actually wrong, it just was a different road (specifically, a road going over a hill rather close to the camera). Still, in that case, one would want to adjust the cacti further in the distance to not be so small.

Axil62 (Feb 20, 2007)

Yeah, if you're view is from the top of a telephone pole..... the only telephone pole around out in the middle of nowhere.

Cameo (Feb 20, 2007)

Are you guys trying to be funny again or is this serious constructive critisim?

Axil62 (Feb 20, 2007)

No, we weren't kidding. I think he's wrong.

Cameo (Feb 20, 2007)

I'm corn fused!

marcello (Feb 20, 2007)

Or, if there are hills, you could be standing on another hill. Or it isn't a road (after all, look at the size of the green cactus on the left). Or, gasp, it's a bird's view! D-:

But yes, when it comes down to it, I imagine cameo was trying to draw what it now looks like, and as such, axil's comment is perfectly valid.

If it were a road on a hill I'd probably make it a little curved, anyway.

Axil62 (Feb 20, 2007)

Marcello is saying that if the road you drew in V.4 was going up a hill your perspective would have been correct except for the size of the cacti.
I replied by explaining that even if that were the case the view would have to be from way up high, which is asking the viewer to imagine an unlikely scenario, therefore severely handicapping the effectiveness of the illusion.

marcello (Feb 20, 2007)

well, same with the current drawing really, unless the person is really tall, you're not going to see that image from such a narrow angle view. Unless it's cropped from a bigger image, in which case, the whole position of the viewer is a moot point.

Axil62 (Feb 20, 2007)

That's true.

Press (Feb 20, 2007)

why would you want to be a drifter?

Cameo (edited Feb 20, 2007)

To get away from it all, Press! To be responsible for no one but myself. But of course that is unlikely except in this painting. So Marcello and Axil is my painting right or wrong?

Axil62 (Feb 20, 2007)

it's fine

Cameo (Feb 21, 2007)
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