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I will show you how to introduce a third vanishing point to your drawings. We will cover how to avoid unwanted lens distortion by spacing out your points correctly on the picture plane. I will teach you my fanning technique to draw perspective lines even when your vanishing point is off the page. You will learn how to draw scenes looking up at buildings or looking down at a street. I will also show you how to reverse engineer a perspective grid starting from a single object like a table. This lets you build an entire room around that one shape. You will learn to control the grid instead of letting it control you.
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Try drawing scenes in three-point perspective. Add a third vanishing point above or below the horizon line to look up at something or down at something, like a city from above or skyscrapers from below. Watch out for lens distortion when your points sit too close together, unless that warped fisheye look is what you're after.
When you don't have room for the third point on your page, start with an extreme line on the left and an extreme on the right, then fan the in-between lines to match. This trick works for any vanishing point, not just the third one. Play with moving your points around, reverse engineer the grid from objects you want in the scene, and post your sketches below!
