How to Draw a Five-Point Down Shot with Philip Dimitriadis
How to Draw a Five-Point Down Shot with Philip Dimitriadis
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How to Draw a Five-Point Down Shot with Philip Dimitriadis
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Shayan Shahbazi
Once this place hosted another species.
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Learn to create dynamic cityscapes and sweeping landscapes using five-point perspective. We’ll explore quick thumbnails to outline big ideas, use spherical grids to guide curved lines, and strategically divide scenes into quadrants. You’ll see how flipping and copying buildings streamlines your workflow, and how 3D tools can save time. Work small or go big—these techniques open the door to realistic down-shots or whimsical cartoon worlds.

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Marshall Vandruff
Learn to create dynamic cityscapes and sweeping landscapes using five-point perspective with Philip Dimitriadis.
Pamela D
4mo
This is where I am on my 5pt down shot. It’s currently more of a practise reference drawing.
Rachel Dawn Owens
This is super cool
Kai Ju
4mo
Freehanding is always way more fun than the grids even though i can definitely see some mistakes, especially along the perimeter. Gotta practice curves i guess
Smithies
4mo
The 'roger rabbit' style composition - I'm struggling to figure out where the vanishing points are for the tops of the houses - can anyone help with that? Because we're at the top of the circle and then there are things still going up and above it and are they still curving or are they straight? I see a lot of people saying this is getting intuitive, but I guess I'm not there yet! I think I've figured out that to make an up view the 'y' axis curves in towards the centre top and down view things converge down to centre bottom - does that sound about right? And you should lower and raise the horizon line accordingly too? And then is the grid on top of the horizon line just totally different to match the 'up' or 'down' viewness? In the pic attached is the horizon line a curve? His curves over the top are different to the ones on his sphere - so why the change?
Marshall Vandruff
To solve this, it may help to use the "NSEW" and "Above/Below" directional indicators that I showed in the curvilinear and panorama videos. You are jumping ahead to concerns that introduce non-level lines when you don't have non-level lines in there yet. I'll try to explain by answering your questions: When you asked "does that sound about right?" the answer is yes — an up and down view in the same picture require curved lines between the above vp and the below vp. In this frame, you have no VP above. But when you asked "...you should lower and raise the horizon line accordingly too?" the answer is no, or at least hardly. That was for when we limited the viewing-angle. We needed to lower or raise the horizon to swivel the camera up or down — no need for that when our viewing angle stretches to include up and down views. Perhaps it will help to remember that the horizon is not for the lines aiming directly above our heads or below our feet, it's for the lines going directly away from our (level) face. The reason you would "lift or lower the horizon" in this frame might be to, temporarily, figure out inclined and declined planes like stairs and roofs, but that's getting ahead. I'm working on explaining it for our lessons on non-level forms in Part II, but for now, camera lenses and fields of vision are complex enough. We'll keep it simpler by keeping things level. I hope this helps.
Smithies
4mo
Ahhh just recapping some things has maybe made this clearer (sorry I'm a couple of months behind in the assignments!!). So I'm guessing it's a down view? So lines below horizon line (approx middle) go up and lines above go down. And from because we're far away the angle is very wide (nearly horizontal). I THINK
Smithies
4mo
Or is the horizon line really right down at the middle of the circle? What even is a horizon line anymore!! I'm lost
Randy Pontillo
fun if not a little tedious
Sita Rabeling
More practice.
Shayan Shahbazi
Once this place hosted another species.
Dermot
4mo
Nice, that could be Noah's Ark in the middle, where all the species are located! :)
Carlos Pérez
A little exercise, remaining 5 top view
Dennis Yeary
Out of curiosity is their a 6 point perspective?
Dedee Anderson Ganda
when we have a building slightly rotated in X axis, I believe it now have its own 2 point perspectives, doing that in the sphere in this course means that picture now have 7 point perspectives
M C
4mo
@Marshall Vandruff are you familiar with this guy's way of working: Sergey Kolesov Space Envelope Dealing with perspective https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/m9jX0/space-envelop-dealing-with-perspective-in-photoshop?utm_source=artstation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_term=marketplace I almost understand it all and it's fascinating stuff seeing "the art" applied to a photoshop canvas!
Harold Davenport
That’s a fantastic lesson — Philip Dimitriadis really breaks down the five-point down shot in a way that makes complex perspective feel approachable. https://geometrydashlite2.io
M C
4mo
fantastic lesson, thanks @Philip Dimitriadis !!! and as an animation geek I get even more joy from this: now i understand how some shots were made!😻😻😻🙏🙏🙏🙏
Dermot
4mo
That's amazing, thanks for the lesson Philip. :)
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