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Old 25 October 2009, 08:43 AM #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Terrencejones View Post
This is another drawing of the same Pup from another angle with the centre of vision on the pilot. There may also be issues with this drawing but as in the earlier one that will be down to me. APM does not draw the aircraft for you, it provides an accurate guide (as long as your measurements are accurate) of aircraft in any chosen angle with perfect perspective. Because it keeps you very much in the loop drawing errors can occur, but as they say, practice makes perfect.
The late RG Smith once said: "If a drawing is technically correct but it looks wrong, then it IS wrong".

That being said, you've already recognized that there are some issues with this one. The biggest thing that jumps out at me is the lack of a consistent vanishing point on the horizontal plane. All of these lines, being parallel on the horizontal plane, should merge into a single point (I know that you already know this). Take a look at what they're doing, though. Looks like your leading edges on the main wings are OK, but the lines of the Horz. Stabilizer are doing their own thing. They seem to actually DIVERGE as they recede from the viewer.

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