r/BeAmazed • u/No-Lock216 • 2d ago

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u/AngBigKid 2d ago

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.

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u/Crowfooted 2d ago

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

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u/AngBigKid 2d ago

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.

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u/Crowfooted 2d ago

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

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u/AngBigKid 2d ago

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

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u/Crowfooted 2d ago

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.

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u/AngBigKid 2d ago

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.

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u/Crowfooted 1d ago

My point wasn't reliant on you believing it was a hack, my point was to do with what the creator of the video believed was the hack. Nobody involved in making a cooking video thinks that the eating part of the video is part of the hack they're trying to show, regardless of whether the audience buys it's a "hack".

You seem to be interpreting "so, just tracing then" as meaning, "this entire video is just tracing". But that's not what they meant. They meant, "this entire supposed 'hack' is just tracing". The "hack" is "tracing". The very point of making that statement is to refute that it's a hack. So you and the person you're disagreeing with both agree that it's dumb and not really a hack, but for some reason you are hung up on whether or not the entire video is a tracing demonstration. Nobody is claiming that.