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Wow!
I'm suitably amazed. I never thought of myself as particularly left-brained, but this sure cinches it.
Last evening I actually was able to do the drawing using the plan perspective thing, and surprisingly (to me, anyway), it actually worked. Except that I made the horizon too low.
The reason I'm exploring this is that I'm doing a painting of 3 guys in the cockpit of a LCVP (a WWII landing craft). I have some 1/24 scale blueprints of the boat and a very poor plastic model and a bunch of photos (but of course none from the angle I need). I need to place these guys accurately to get the scale of the boat and a realistic view of the various angles.
After reading all this, and trying my own descriptive geometry session, I've decide to solve it this way:
I've taped out the layout of the cockpit full-size on the floor of my studio. I'm going to roughly mockup the sides and deck heights and so forth with some corrugated cardboard sheets, and then place the models where they belong, light them, sketch them, photograph them, and let that be that (and just be glad they weren't on an aircraft carrier!).
This has been a supremely informative discussion; I really appreciate all the info (and I actually sort of understand it, which I certainly didn't beforehand).
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