small guide to drawing in perspective

[Sprite]

Well here goes, when I started out drawing at the age of 7-ish I was cr*p, but pratice is everything. up until about 4 years ago I was cr*p at drawing in perspective and all my art was looking off shall we say, but a tutor of mine at collage helped me put this to straight. here in this tutorial i will show you what he showed me and I hope it helps you the same as me.

Part one The horizon line

The first thing you want to do is draw an horizon line, this line is where you see the horizon going across your page, depending and how high you want your horizon is up to you just experement with it. (fig 1)

(fig 1)

Part two The perspective points

These points dictate how elongated your image will look. The closer in the points the more squashed the image will look, and the further away the points the longer the image will look (fig 2).

Part three center line

This line dictates where and how you image be it a car or building be situated on the page. If you lower the line you will give the effect that you are looking down on an aboject (fig 3), but if you make the line higher you give the effect that you are looking up at the object (fig 4).

(fig 3)

(fig 4)

Part four joining the point to the center line

This is where you will make a basic box shape to use as a template for you object to fit in. just join the point on the horizon line to the top and bottom of the center line. and it should look like (fig 5).

(fig 5)

Once done you can go and join up the two triangle shapes by drawing a line down from line to line at the left and right hand sides, the further down the horizon line you go the wider that edge will be, (fig 6).

(fig 6)

Part five drawing things parallel

Now this looks like a 3d box, from now you can go and start to draw your object in this box by using lines from the pionts that stay parallel to the first lot of lines drawn from the points to the center line shown in (fig 5) to show you a little bit better of what i mean look at (fig 7).

(fig 7)

Ive just drawn a basic set of windows to demo what i meant by parallel lines, these have now been shaded and all the supporting lines removed to show you a finished building like object (fig 8)

(fig 8)

I hope that this small tutorial or look at perspective as helped you guys, and please post comments. I will look for my original images from how i learnt perspective till then give this a go cheers.

 

[ALPHA]

Well here goes, when I started out drawing at the age of 7-ish I was cr*p, but pratice is everything. up until about 4 years ago I was cr*p at drawing in perspective and all my art was looking off shall we say, but a tutor of mine at collage helped me put this to straight. here in this tutorial i will show you what he showed me and I hope it helps you the same as me.

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I hope that this small tutorial or look at perspective as helped you guys, and please post comments. I will look for my original images from how i learnt perspective till then give this a go cheers.

There is a much, much more complicated method of drawing accurate working mechanical drawings in perspective. It involves a plan view and elevation (to get measurements off). I used the technique for this (which I did ages ago and is now what I consider to be really bad because it has so many mistakes. I rushed it.)

I'm not saying your method is bad but it can be easily mucked up without practice as it can cause major distortion unless you have an excellent eye for doing things without any measurements.

I've got a diagram of the more complicated method in a book but I'll need to set the scanner up, if you would like to have a look at it I'll scan it in for you.

 

[Sprite]

you are right ALPHA but its not really for technical drawing's, its more for free hand art but to gain some sort of perspective, because ive never done techinical drawing in my life ive just studied art and graphic design. plus this is just two point perspective and there is a single point and three point perspective also, they are teaching us the three point in games design at the moment

 

[Event]

Once in art class, I did a two-point perspective of a hallway. Best drawing I've ever done! It was in 8th grade!

 

[Incubus831]

honestly i dont know what that first guys prob was but whatever works best for u go with it.

 

[Danny]

Very good tutorial, thanks Sprite.

You've just helped me with my art coursework.