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Learn the three basic sectional planes—sagittal, coronal, and transverse—for building form in perspective drawing.
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Dermot
19h
Amazing explanation and animation.
Your laugh was somewhat disturbing, throughout, though!
Was Stan hurt during the stunts, in making this animation?
I was surprised you put water in the pool!
Thanks
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18h
Yeah, I got pretty sadistic there, but Stan seems to be more okay with it than getting sung to.

Ricen
2d
Sagittal - serious symmetric sword slice
Transversal - tightly tied tie
Coronal - circumnavigate the sides.
Coronal is tough. That last one is a stretch. I suppose if you have the first two there is really only one perpendicular plane left. I liked the headphone comparison.
Randy Pontillo
19h
Thats Me with Coronal too, were like neighbors, I don't know his name, but I know where he is,
Lin
1d
(Marshall don’t read this)
I remember it the following way:
- sagittal: like the side eye I give to people who introduce themselves with being a Sagittarius, it separates left to right on the x axis
- transverse: your friend’s ex-wife, will gut you in half along the y axis leaving your heart/ribcage in a different box from your guts/pelvis (especially if they’re a Sagittarius, or, more benignly, Stan teaching figure drawing)
- coronal: tough, like you said. goes along depth, the 3D axis. The hellborn spawn of perspective. The reason Scott Robertson books exist. Wants to give you a coronary (but Marshall won’t let that happen)
As long as we remember the view axis, the other two will be the remaining ones right? E.g. sagittal is x axis, so working it out from there, the slice will be y/z. Transverse moves along y, so inevitably the plane slice will be x/z. But it mostly just boils down to “cut things in half along each axis”).
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