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We're on to drawing boxes! We'll start with the basics of one-point perspective, covering the XYZ axes, horizon line, and vanishing points. I'll show you a demo drawing a scene filled with boxes and explain the limitations of one-point perspective.
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sara keyes
1d
@avey888
5d
STAN!!! You're so FREAKIN' Funny!!!I love when you started sweating then it escalated!!!🤣🤣🤣 "...That's why we had that exercise..." Ugh. Sometimes we're so hard on ourselves. Even when no one is around. Hahaa! Thanks for being in the drawing "trenches" with us! Thank you for all the wisdom and knowledge and joy of art and humanity you're sharing with the world.
@russelljones
7d
Great video - just to help everyone a good reference for perspective drawings is R Fraser Reekie's book Draughtmanship - its a very old book but good and as am architect ( drawing perspectives for years) i recommend it. Love all your videos!
Dermot
9d
I have a basic grasp of one, two and three point perspective.
It's good to start from the beginning again.
Thanks, great video and explanation.
When you mention that as perspective gets more complicated there can be many vanishing points, that's where have difficulty and keeping track or even working out all of the vanishing lines in a scene without creating a mass / mess of lines.
I'm looking forward to all the perspective lessons.
@bonnieblue
10d
1 point perspective. Gotta get back to connect the dots warm ups.
Alexandra Mayorova
11d
I'm not new to drawing, I even work. But the perspective is very difficult for me. It took me years to realize that 1,2 points are conditional, and 99% of the time we see the world in 3 points.
It took me a few more years to realize that this should be at the subconscious level. I have to draw millions of boxes so I don't have to think. And here I am again. It will never be enough. And I have to find the strength not to reflect.
8d
Ya perspective is hard. I'll try to explain things as best as I can and give you projects that will force you to work through the problems. It won't be easy. You'll run into challenges and you'll make mistakes. But remember, they're just drawings that you can throw away and try again.
Jarrett van den Bergh
9d
You can do it! Sometimes it only takes a small revelation to make all the practice finally click. You may have already done this, but for anyone who hasn't heard of it, I found the 250 box challenge on drawabox to be enlightening for my perspective skills!
Juice
13d
This might be too advanced and this is just a basic excersice for 1 point perspective. But I have some questions. Using 1 point perspective for an object that shows more than 2 planes (front and above or from below) is just something theorietical? Because When you see something from slightest angel it will be a second varnishing point? In the renaissance they used 1 point perspective even When they showed more sides because they hadnt learned other kinds of perspective yet. (Did you teach me that? :D ) In one of your courses I don’t remember wich you said if you see the frontplane undistorted with 90 degrees angles a perfect square you can’t see the side plane. Its an impossible box. So the boxes towards the sides in this practice are impossible boxes? Just theoretical?
8d
Perspective is an invention to create the illusion of what we see. 1-point perspective is a very simplified version of that, but it's not exactly what we see. Even 3-point perspective isn't exactly what we see. Reality is closer to fisheye, curvilinear, because our eyes are round. I'm sure you've seen those perspective drawings where all the lines are curving a bit.
We're starting with 1-point because it's simple and we need simple right now to just get familiar with converging edges to a point.
@simonchao
12d
Perspective is all about how the 3D world is projected onto a 2D plane. Yes, 1,2 or 3 point perspective don't represent exactly the way our eyes see mostly because our eyes don't image linearly.
However, if a perfect camera does exist, it can definitely follow the behavior of a 1 point perspective. You can point the camera perpendicular to the front plane (but set the box aside) and still be able to see the side plane.
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Jarrett van den Bergh
12d
I'm a student also, but I think you are right. In reality, every box will have multiple vanishing points, because they each have 3 sets of parallel lines.
Even if there existed lines that were perfectly horizontal or vertical (like in 1-point perspective), they would begin to look curved if they stretched into infinity. This is because our eyes are curved and so produce a slight fisheye (or curvilinear) effect.
However in practice, often the tilt is so negligible that it is looks pretty much like 1 point perspective. So it becomes useful to draw things this way.
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