Perspective makes the art for me. That's why I like Joe Bennett or Leonard Kirk.

I love drawing perspectives on paper. Especially using ultra long rulers. Because it feels rewarding. But I've grown to favor using 3D Max to rough out stuff when the environment is very important to a scene or I'll take screenshots from the level itself, since you can add so much so fast once you've made yourself a library of simple objects like cars and cranes and such. Of course, overdetailing isn't any good either, cause it's a pain to lightbox and an illustration being a flat image, should simplify everything anyway instead of over complicating it. blablabla

Also I like seeing things divided in uneven numbers like 3s or 5s better than even numbers and I find that still time consuming to do. : /

It's wonderful to learn new techniques from the other members. I've spent most of my life surrounded by folk with no knowledge or interest in illustration. Every day I spend wandering about Byrne Robotics is a revelation.

Re: PS CS4: am I ever ready for this, Daniel!

Here's the snippet I found:

Enhanced Vanishing Point with 3D support
Edit in perspective on multiple surfaces — even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees — with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which also lets you measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output 2D planes as 3D models.

I can't take credit for that tip, John, so I should direct you to the following
link by Matt "D'israeli" Brooker, artist of many strips for 2000AD, and War of
the Worlds for Dark Horse.

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Thanks Jim. I lost interest in 2000AD when I retired from publishing Judge Dredd RPG books, so haven't seen much of Matt's work. I'm personally not much of an Illustrator user (it takes too long to produce line art IMO - I use it only for lettering), but know there are quite a few, nifty features not immediately apparant which will be a great boon to me.