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Assignment - What is Zero Point Perspective?!

by Marshall Vandruff in The Perspective Course

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My zero point perspective project! A mini Galaga cabinet.

LESSON NOTES

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From One-Point to Multi-Point Perspective

You've learned one-point perspective, parallel lines that recede converge at a single vanishing point. But what if two sets of lines recede in different directions? Each set has its own vanishing point. Stepping off a railroad track, you might see lines going away to the right and left, this is two-point perspective. If lines also recede up or down, that's three-point perspective.

The Three Dimensions and Orthographic Views

Every object has three dimensions:

Width (left-right)
Height (up-down)
Depth (front-back)

Orthographic (ortho) views help you understand these dimensions:

Front view: Shows width and height, you're looking straight at depth.
Side view: Shows height and depth, you're looking straight at width.
Top view: Shows width and depth, you're looking straight at height.

These views line up neatly:

Front and top views align on widths.
Front and side views align on heights.

Using Orthographic Knowledge in Perspective

Orthos provide enough information to draw objects in perspective. Artists and designers use them to:

Establish proportions: Determine the size relationships between different parts.
Visualize forms: Understand how objects look from different angles.
Create turnarounds: Character designers draw orthos to animate characters from all sides.

For example, if you only have a side view of a teapot, you might not know its true shape. Combining side, front, and top views gives you a complete understanding of the form.

Preparing for Perspective Drawing

Understanding orthographic views enhances your spatial awareness. It helps you:

Translate space to paper and paper to space.
Make informed choices when drawing in perspective.
Build a foundation for more complex drawings.

Remember, practice strengthens your ability to visualize and draw forms accurately. Next, we'll learn how to tilt these axes in space, moving from orthos to 3D sketches. See you in the next lesson!

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ASSIGNMENTS

Drawing Exercise: Creating Orthographic Views

Project: Using the object you chose for your form study (Assignment - The Secret of Simple Forms), create an ortho for it.

Draw it from the top, side, and front views, proportioned as accurately as you can.
Keep the object at a distance to better judge proportions.
Plan your layout: Ensure the views line up correctly on your paper.
Use instruments or draw freehand:
- Instruments provide precision.
- Freehand drawing enhances spatial reasoning.

This exercise develops your ability to think in three dimensions and prepares you for drawing in one, two, or three-point perspective.

Deadline - submit by April 01, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

@kotka

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Usually I am very quick to dismiss and ditch tools of precision. It just bores me. BUT this time I somehow convinced myself to persevere and it really makes a huge difference. It the end, the satisfaction of precision was is enjoyable and calming. And there was not as much blotchy erasing during the process. For me, the difficulty is to not lose patience. It is my biggest issue, but this course has really forced me to work on it seriously and I even have even started to find some enjoyment in it.

Ash

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This looks awesome haha.

lautaro asis

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26d

Im on holidays but had a free day. It was way harder than I thought to get the measurements right, also since chainsaws tend to be asymmetrical, I had to rotate it to get the opposite details. Thats the one where I made mistakes, but only noticed after inking (I'm bad at numbers but also I'm sure it will get better with practice) because I had to do the measurements the other way around

Worldblox

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29d

Cars in orthographic views (and a computer)

Maestro

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2mo

Coffee machines

Louise

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2mo

Louise

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2mo

I just realized that the side view and the top view should have lined up beside each other, so here’s another attempt at it

Louise

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2mo

I was scratching my head just trying to find a simple object in my house to draw. I decided these small binoculars might work.

Dan Henry

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2mo

Still unsure on how to get from drawing something in one particular view to interpreting it in another view. But this is a fun exercise.

alba m

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2mo

Wish I could slow down the drawing process to get cleaner lines and closer observation of relationships. Also, I had to decide which of the two eyes' perspectives to apply for parts of the drawing.

Louise

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2mo

Very clever, and cute

Thieum

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2mo

Didn't manage to get to the end of those... It seems I didn't approach them the right way.To be repeated...

Debbie Dawson

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3mo

Now this is definitely more me. I love precision drawing. Sorry about the light in the picture. This was with the curtains shut and the lamp on!

Debbie Dawson

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3mo

Forgot to add the corners

Nikki De Backer

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3mo

I redrew the items I used from an earlier excercise. I added unnecessary details to the first one but I was just really enjoying the drawing 😅 It was a mix of measuring and freehanding and lining up the details!

Chloe Kmita

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3mo

Dippede Doodle

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4mo

Hey folks! There are truly some great masters in this course and I am happy to learn along them. Here is my assignment. Why should orthos be in no point perspective? – I don’t understand that! I think orthos are a direct view at an object in one point perspective. There is a vanishing point and I also needed to converge the bottom plane of the airplane. If that’s the case we have to consider foreshortening on long objects in orthos right? At least it was I did (because my object is really long like an airplane). If you look at the rear wing (elevator) you may notice that the width changes from the front to back and top view. I tried to implement foreshortening should I do this? I would appreciate if anyone could help me out with this confusion! Best regards Alexander

Dippede Doodle

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4mo

Anthony Hernandez

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4mo

Hello Alexander. You shouldn't be using diminution for orthos. It really is 0 point perspective so the lines that are going away from the viewer don't converge to a vanishing point. Since the lines don't converge, objects further away don't get smaller. The reason we want to do this is so that we can get the exact measurements of the object and its parts relative to each other. It's like a floorplan for a house. If the house had a staircase you wouldn't increase the width of each stair in the floorplan as you get closer to the top, you just keep them all the same width, because all the stairs have the same width. If someone wanted to know the width of the rear wing compared to the rest of the plane from these orthos, they would have to approximate or guess because the front top and back view all have different widths. That being said, your orthos look great and the diminutions you've made aren't extreme enough to make much of a difference for the purposes of what we are doing. Can't wait to see this plane in perspective!