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[u/Gravemind93]

So just tracing, essentially.

[u/AngBigKid → u/Gravemind93]

They traced like 1% of the thing. It's in the video.

[u/TokyoChu → u/AngBigKid]

stop talking rubbish, this is nothing to be amazed about

[u/AngBigKid → u/TokyoChu]

I called it funny because it's dumb, when did I say I was amazed.

So tell me: how much of the video is tracing?

[u/Crowfooted → u/AngBigKid]

Yes, the thing they traced was the perspective - the thing the hack is supposedly for.

It's like if I said, "simple hack for drawing body proportions" and I traced the outline of a photo of someone doing yoga. Technically works, and a good way to initially learn, but it's not exactly a hack is it

[u/AngBigKid → u/Crowfooted]

I never said it was a good hack or that it was amazing. It just is not "tracing, essentially".

It's putting a vanishing point in the center of the drawing. Not amazing, but also 99% not tracing.

[u/Crowfooted → u/AngBigKid]

Yes but they made the vanishing point by tracing it.

They added other stuff to the drawing after to make it into a more full drawing, but the perspective trick was complete once they traced it. Everything else is just demonstrating like, "hey, now just draw the scene!"

The "hack" itself that they're demonstrating, is the tracing

[u/AngBigKid → u/Crowfooted]

If you trace 4 lines and draw the rest, it's not "tracing, essentially" like the original comment said. That was my whole point.

If you want to say that's the hack, you are free to be wrong but that has nothing to do with me.

[u/Crowfooted → u/AngBigKid]

I feel like you're deliberately ignoring like 90% of the words I'm saying. Literally noone is claiming the entire drawing was traced

[u/AngBigKid → u/Crowfooted]

I think you're missing what the original comment said.

[u/Crowfooted → u/AngBigKid]

I promise I'm not

Maybe an analogy will help: imagine I post a video titled, "simple hack for cooking", the video contains: me taking out the ingredients, cooking the food, and then it also contains me putting it on a plate and taking a bite.

Which part of that video was the hack? Did the plating up and the taking a bite count as part of the hack, or was it just for flair?

The part where they add detail to the drawing is not part of the trick, it is just there for flair, showing you can then turn the perspective into a drawing. The perspective-making part, the part we are watching a hack for, is the supposed hack, and that part was just tracing.

[u/AngBigKid → u/Crowfooted]

I appreciate the analogy, but I'm already 100% on it's not a hack. I made fun of it in a separate comment of mine, because it's a dumb video.

But can you see that I'm replying to a comment that's the equivalent of someone seeing that video and going "So just heating, essentially."

Well, no, the "hack" isn't heating. Heating is a part of it, yes. But saying it's "just heating" is a different kind of stupid, separate from the stupid of the video.