Perspective Drawing for Beginners

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lines what are they made of how did they get here if I run with them everything will fall those questions and more than 8014 others will be answered in today's lesson which is about

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not again everything in this school is flat our desks your balloon that giant sack of salmonella over there that's my lunch it's not flat this is what happens when you wait so long to teach us perspective we have to live in this flat world okay yeah you're right let me hook up perspective to this machine it could take anything in 2D and automatically convert it into a three-dimensional perspective

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, so they won't teach us how to draw in perspective, believe me kids, this machine will save us a lot of time.

He hates teaching perspective and thinks. This machine will take you out of today's lesson. Let's go to work. I found this old DVD of him teaching a class years ago. Tuck it in. Let's give it a chance. It gives our two-dimensional drawings a three-dimensional appearance. It is composed of a horizon line and at least one vanishing point with a one-point perspective drawing. The planes will be in front of us and will be flat but the sides will retreat towards the vanishing point. What is that on your lip? I think it's hair if we put another box in here. to the other side and follow it back to the vanishing point, you start to get an idea of ​​how this works.

Imagine this was a small town with a street and buildings. All of these lines go back to our only vanishing point, since there is only one point here. We call it one point perspective, it's great for simple scenes where you don't want things to feel too flat like my desk, yeah, like your desk is the DVD talking to you. Wow, two point perspective, you guessed it? Two vanishing points, the second disappearance. The point is also located along the horizon line. Finding the right spacing between these vanishing points can be a little tricky if they are too far apart.

There isn't much depth in your drawing. If the vanishing points are too close together, things start to look bad. too exaggerated there is also three point perspective, this is the point where we have been drawing our vertical lines up and down, but three point perspective gives us another point in the sky. This is great if your character is looking at something or if you place that vanishing point a little higher, it gives a little more height to your scene, unlike the first two points, the third point doesn't have to be on your line of the horizon, okay, I have it working, no, but we have lunch, let's go back to the DVD.

To the DVD, let's take a closer look at the horizon line The position of the horizon line determines the point of view of your drawing For most photos and drawings the horizon line is somewhere in the middle of the page if you want a top down view move the horizon line to the top of the page or even off the canvas completely if you want a mouse view of the world place the horizon line along the top of the page bottom of the page to be able to look at the subject, another technique is to have the horizon line at an angle.

You don't see this very often because we are used to looking at the world when we are standing, but if we see the world from the eyes of a person who is lying down, then there is a side horizon. The line line will work. Use this technique sparingly. It may seem interesting at first to tilt the horizon line, but since it is unusual for the viewer to see the world that way, they could end up reading too much into it or simply not connecting with the scene due to a lack of realism even if all the lines They are correct, look at these really old paintings, they didn't know how to draw perspective but they also didn't know how to draw cats or human babies, it's working, see? that I turned your desk into a real desk um no, you turned that rhino boy into a desk, you did what now you draw perspective lines over photos if your perspective line seems exaggerated or just a little off, draw perspective lines over photos is a great way to discover what realistic perspective looks like.

Doing this a few times will help you see how far away those vanishing points need to be to find the effect you're looking for. This will also help you find the horizon line if it's not obvious in First, you can do this with pencil and paper, simply tracing a photo you've printed or already have, or you can do it digitally, as if it were here. It will be easier if you choose a photo of something man-made, perhaps. something with buildings or inside a room because it will give us some nice straight lines to work with when you draw your lines don't stop drawing where the line ends continue, it will look sloppy at first okay so we could skip ahead and trace some of the other lines where these lines meet is our first vanishing point.

We can then follow the other lines going in the other direction to our second vanishing point now that we have the vanishing points that we all have. the basics we need for a good perspective grid, we can add our own lines now to make a real grid, if we wanted to draw a box in this scene we could use the perspective grid to do it or if we wanted to get an idea of ​​where a character would go, we could draw a box roughly the size of that character to determine the proportions. The next video will be about drawing characters and objects in perspective, so subscribe and ring the bell if you don't want to miss that.

After practicing this a few times, you will start to be able to distinguish perspective lines quite easily and will be able to instantly tell which photos are one-point perspective, two-point perspective, or even three-point perspective. perspective, that did that job, yes, I think so, no, I think not, at least Mr. Brad has a lunch now he has an activity of what now to draw some boxes on a plane, we've been on this plane forever, we should trying to draw boxes, no, the wrong kind. of the plane, this will be easier if you use one-point perspective, create a horizon line, and then place your vanishing point anywhere along that line.

Now let's start drawing, start by drawing a box, just a rectangle, the part of the box that is in front of you. and now we're going to create the side of that box, so we're going to draw our lines back to the vanishing point. You don't have to draw them all the way back. You can use a ruler if you draw it digitally. Sometimes it's easier to go back completely and then delete the parts you don't need once these two lines are in place. I'm going to add another straight vertical line to show the end of that box, so for this activity I want you to end up with six boxes total, so if this is our first box, let's add one, two, three, four five to the page, practice drawing some boxes so that some of those boxes are in front of the other boxes and some of those boxes are behind other boxes this is too easy, so let's change this from casual mode to normal mode.

Try this exercise again, but this time I want you to do it from a two-point perspective. This time I just drew a vertical line and then each plane of the cube is going to recede to a different vanishing point and again for this part of the activity I want you to draw six boxes on your page again. Still, it's not much of a challenge, if you're ready to turn this activity into hard mode. Try it without a rule. This is an excellent practice. Practice first by drawing the lines on paper or on your tablet. When you're done, you can take out that ruler and see how close your lines were.

There's actually an entire website with challenges like this. Alright? You're right, this is the hard mode. I know that sometimes I'll get hot just drawing a bunch of freehand boxes like that, it helps me understand perspective and you can never get enough practice with this sort of thing. I think I've mastered it. From this, now that we understand perspective better, let's draw a real thing, this thing is a door, yes, we can see what it does, it opens its things, let's just draw it, you know the drill. We can all start with our horizon line and we can select our vanishing points, but I'm going to cheat on a lot of drawing apps like the one I'm using here, which is called Procreate for iPad, and they have built-in perspective grids that you can enter. and modify and then you can draw all your lines on that perspective grid if you don't have an app like this don't worry you can use the same pencil and paper you've used up to this point but this often really speeds things up to get started our door We're going to draw a simple picture and we're going to draw it in perspective using our perspective guides like this, but a door has a lot more detail than you initially see, for example.

The box has some depth to it, so it's going to go back towards the other vanishing point and then I'm going to draw a line here and now we have a very thin box, but that door also has a frame, so let's draw the frame of that door. too and that's just going to be an outline around the box like that, that box also has some depth to it, so we're going to come in here and add that depth just like that and adding depth to its In drawings like this, you're not just drawing boxes, you're drawing the inside and outside of the boxes and you're starting to give the whole illustration more depth than before, so when we go and add something like a window to this door, if it's just a simple straight window, it's going to be another box that we'll draw here in perspective and that stands out a little too well, so let's add another line here to make sure that that has some depth as well and then of course there's the inside outline of that window, so let's go in here and let's Let's draw that and then we're going to add depth to it as well. on the right, so let's add some lines to show that there's some depth there as well and then I'll just draw some little cross bars here so that the window shows that there are some little lines there separating it and there we go.

I have a basic door, damn, that doesn't work either let me try one more thing, I feel good, no that's not good, keep trying, I believe in you, what the hell has he done to make you believe in him, okay, Alright? Getting closer I can feel it yes, yes I did it, I did it, no that's a hippopotamus, a totally different animal, this time I remember the release valve.