I've been drawing in Adobe Flash and when I flip the images of characters so I can have them facing the other direction they look weird. This happens when drawing with a pencil too. I think they look decent on the original but it's like a completely different drawing when it's flipped. Here is an example http://tinyurl.com/v35ve I drew the girl on the left and the right image is flipped. She looks like she's falling back on the right and her head looks misshaped and everything looks weird. Her arms and feet also look really different. What is the problem and how do I fix it? Please don't suggest things you haven't tried.
2007-01-02 05:48:34 · 9 answers · asked by argh.pirate 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
This is something I always wondered also. Perhaps when you look at a picture you get an image of it in your mind. Then when you reverse the image in the mirror it doesn't jell with the image that you have of it in your mind. So it looks weird.
But this is a good way to see it objectively. So you can see how it is instead of what you want it to be.
2007-01-02 06:44:18 · answer #1 · answered by harveymac1336 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't use basic under drawing techniques it will make your drawing unbalanced when flipped. You can get drawing books at the library that'll show you how to do this.
There are traditional art books but there are books about how to draw cartoons as well.
2007-01-02 06:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To others, it won't appear any different.
To you, it will, becuase when you mirror an object that you've designed, it stimulates the opposite side of your brain, and you're seeing it from the left brain perspective, rather than the right (or vice versa). You're mind is reconstructing the image from a different set of deduction principles, and you're seeing what looks "off balance".
Realistically, no one else is able to see what you are, but mirroring objects is a good way to teach yourself manners of perspective in your visual presentation.
2007-01-02 09:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just a matter of perspective. Since you were the one drawing it, it looks strange after staring at it from the left for so long. To viewers, it looks pretty much the same. I do the same with my own--
I drew the taller guy but when I flipped it, the face shape kind of changed for me-- after a while, I got used to it. I changed the eyes and hair so...uhh it obviously looks different--but the face shape, nose, mouth, and eyebrows are the "same"!
http://bp1.blogger.com/_59q-I0coXhs/RYDNRJsvm8I/AAAAAAAAACY/mWjUVLcVq48/s1600-h/ASHDAHSDJAS.jpg
2007-01-02 05:52:32 · answer #4 · answered by xchipowers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-03-01 06:11:49 · answer #5 · answered by Mager1964 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't seem so to me, but it could be simple lighting problems such as the shadow under. . . --whatever that thing is, maybe you could try having the eyes moved so that they look like they are actually facing each other on purpose, or you could adjust the highlights in the eyes as the light will shine on a different part of the eye as the head turns
2007-01-02 06:29:40 · answer #6 · answered by representin_gbg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, it looks good to me. Actually they looks exactly the same. Hee she's cute.
2007-01-02 05:50:27 · answer #7 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but it doesn't look wierd to me♥ Maybe you are just being critical of yourself♥
2007-01-02 05:57:47 · answer #8 · answered by ♥USMCwife♥ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i clicked the link and it was normal
2007-01-02 05:50:50 · answer #9 · answered by Emma aka UMA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋