How to draw in three-point Perspective.

Welcome once again to another drawing tutorial. Today I am going through the three point perspective. Basically we have three point perspective when we look at objects from an angle (just like in two point perspective) but we look at them from a high standpoint or a low standpoint. 

E.g. Imagine you are in a helicopter up in the air, when you look at a building from an angle you are looking at it at in three point perspective (called bird’s eye view). Same is if you look at a building from a low stand point all the way up from an angle you have again three point perspective (called worm’s eye view). 

In this example we will do a bird’s eye view.

First draw the horizon line.

Now draw three vanishing points. Make them have a good distance from each other

We will put a rectangle in perspective. We don’t have any parallel lines here. Draw two lines from Vanishing point 2.

Now draw two more from Vanishing point 1.

Now unify each corner with Vanishing point 3.

Decide how long you rectangle want to be. Now close the shape with Vanishing point 2 and Vanishing point 1.

There we have a rectangle in perfect three point perspective.

See you next Sunday!

Take care!

Panos.

How to draw in two-point Perspective.

Welcome to another drawing tutorial. Today we are going through two point perspective. Basically two point perspective is when you look at objects from an angle and not straight on like in one point perspective.   

If you haven’t been through last week’s tutorial I strongly suggest you go through that one first. Link: http://panoskamoulakos.blogspot.gr/2013/06/blog-post.html

First draw the horizon line.

Now instead of one vanishing point draw two. Make them have a good distance from each other.

We will put a rectangle in perspective. Draw a short vertical line.

Now draw the lines towards the two vanishing points.

Now decide how long your rectangle wants to be. Draw another short vertical line.

Draw the line towards vanishing point 1. 

Draw another vertical line. 

Draw the line towards vanishing point 2.

There you go a rectangle on perfect two point perspective.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

Take care!

Panos.

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How to draw in Perspective

Today we are going to have a look at some basic perspective theory. There are three basic perspective categories: one point, two point and three point perspective. There are actually other types of perspective (four and five point perspective) but you need to get really comfortable with those three basic categories first before you move into more complicated compositions.

This week we will go through one point perspective. 

Literarily anything you draw into paper follows perspective rules. Let’s start! 

Draw a straight horizontal line. This is called the “Horizon Line”. This is the line where sky and earth meet. 

Now draw a dot on the Horizon Line. This is called “Vanishing Point”. It is the point where all of the lines of the objects you draw will meet. 

 

e.g.

Draw a rectangle. 

Now from each corner draw all the lines towards the vanishing point.

Depending on how long you want your shape to be, draw the rest of the shape. The lines are parallel with the original shape.

There you go a rectangle in one point perspective. 

As an exercise you can take numerous rectangular objects and put them in perspective as shown below.

Next week we will go through two point perspective. 

See you next Sunday!

Panos.          

How to draw the female body

Welcome back to another drawing tutorial!

 

Today we will go through constructing the female body. Move to the image below.

Here we see a template of the female body. A few things to go through this exercise, notice that the figure is 8,5 heads long. At the second head is the chest-nipples area. The third head is a little further down the belly button. The fourth head is the crotch. Between six and seven is where the knees are. Between eight and eight and a half are the feet. 

A few more tips. Start from working from the first pose on the left. Draw the head similarly to the stages we did on previous posts. Draw a vertical axis right in the middle and all the way down. Now start counting heads towards the vertical line. Make a small mark each time you count a new head. Once you hit 8,5 heads stop. Know you know where the body parts fall.

Finally feel free to use this template however you like. You can print it, you can try your character designs on it, you can use it as a reference etc. but please if you do make sure you mention where you find it with a reference link.

Thanks for being here! See you next week!

I am more than willing to ask any questions regarding today’s post or previous ones. Write your questions or comments at the comments section below.

Take Care

Panos