Assignment - Perspective for Drawing Anything
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These are my references: James Gurney, Gustaf Tenggren, Shaun Tan, Alex Alice, David Noren. They represent a lot of those abilities I would like to achieve:
Invent environments and put believable characters into these.
Combine an imaginary object into a realistic scene.
Play freely with different perspectives.
Create character sheets and turnarounds.
More specifically I would like to learn:
How to turn and bend any object.
Develop an environment from sketch to perspective construction to finished drawing.
LESSON NOTES
Unlocking the Secrets of Creating Depth
In this course, you'll learn how artists turn a flat surface into a deep world. Perspective is more than just drawing boxes and buildings, it applies to everything around us. By understanding perspective, you can draw anything you imagine in any position and style.
Why Learn Perspective?
Do you get ideas for images but find them difficult to draw? Do you struggle to depict subjects from different viewpoints? Learning perspective allows you to move beyond copying what you see. You'll be able to create your own scenes and bring your visions to life.
The Foundations of Perspective
We'll start with classic perspective which is 600 years of Renaissance knowledge. Establishing strong foundations, we'll explore how basic forms like boxes and spheres can represent many objects. By adjusting these forms, you can create anything, from simple feet to complex structures.
The Power of Imagination
When you draw from imagination, you create your own worlds. Artists who understand perspective can illustrate anything from any point of view. You'll learn how to make trees get smaller as they recede, draw people walking down a street, and render objects credibly.
Treasure Hunt Project
Your first project is to collect your favorite drawings by perspective masters. Seek out artworks that showcase perspective, like studies by Leonardo da Vinci, or environments by De Vries. Also, gather potential perspective problems you want to solve, questions and puzzles you care about. Check out the assignments tab for more info!
Examples of Perspective Problems
- How do arches get smaller as they recede? There's a science to it, and it's not difficult.
- Can you alter that science and still look credible? Yes, you can experiment while maintaining believability.
- How do you change the viewpoint of an object? Learn to draw something from a different angle.
- How do figures on a merry-go-round appear in perspective? Discover how they clump at the edges and spread out in the middle.
If you're eager to tackle these challenges, you're in the right place.
Want to learn more about perspective? Join the premium course to get access to all the lessons, demos, projects, and critiques!
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For your first project, you’ll have 2 tasks to complete.
- Collect some of your favorite drawings by perspective masters to set a standard for skill development.
- Big picture goal - think about problems you'd like to solve that require skills in perspective. Maybe drawing something from a different angle that you don't have reference for, or creating mathematically sound architecture from imagination.
I will be doing a video critique for this project, so make sure to share your thoughts with the community and you'll have a shot at being in the video!
Submit your assignments by 10/01/2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!
my goals are:
- be able to go out and sketch everything I'm watching....people, animals, buildings... whatever...I'm lost every time figuring out prospecting
- drawing from imagination...still a dream....
Maybe with this course I'll be more confident and I'll be able to start doing portraits and sketching... today I tried at the park.... awful result... and I gave up
Hi all, this is my selection for perspective focused artwork. My goal is to be able to draw the same object from whatever angle i want and overall to have the freedom the draw anything without the interference of my lacking skills in perspective.
Hello everyone! :) I'm excited to be taking the course. There are three big picture goals I have:
1. I want to draw locations that I'm seeing, from life, convincingly. I do this any time I go outside but I'm mostly "winging it" with the perspective, and I want to have a solid foundation to work from.
2. I want to design sets and environments for animation, with depth. I really like sets with a lot of overlapping detail and deep atmospheric effects, and I want to understand them and reproduce them in my drawings.
3. I want to draw objects and architectural details from different angles, and draw environments from orthographic views.
These images show off some of the problems I want to tackle. Handling large groups of objects and foliage while keeping everything organized, sets of staircases and chandeliers, adding depth to "empty" environments, life drawing, and using perspective to create memorable designs with simple forms. If the site let me upload more images I'd also post Juanjo Guarnido, Michael Spooner, and Phil Dimitriadis.
Found a few on social media. Tried to look for various art styles that I like.
1. Tale Inn by annon_tins
2. The Vermilion Trail by Mark Maggiori
3. The Endless Halls by Layne Johnson
4. Hobbyist by cormeals
5. AA72 by Zdzisław Beksiński
6. Dante and Virgil in Hell by Gustave Doré
i want to learn perspective mathematically to create things that are realistic & near "perfect", and then learn how to deconstruct and play with it, so that my art can sort of evolve and change without ever feeling completely wrong & lost, with no idea of how to progress and develop
I've always liked drawing from my imagination but recently I feel like I hit a wall. Everything is starting to look the same and for the longest time I didn't know why. I realized recently why I started drawing in the first place, I wanted to make a picture book years ago after reading A Monster Calls (Story by Patrick Ness, Illustrated by Jim Kay) I've always wanted to pursue it but never fully commited until recently.
My current goal is to understand as much about perspective as I can. I want to draw my own Illustrations and characters and understand more about rotating and moving objects in 3D space.
Unrelated to drawing, I want to be able to understand and appreciate more traditional art on a technical level rather than looking at a really good landscape and saying "yeah that looks good."
Hello, my name is lune, my goal is to understand perspective to simplify it down for the purposes of storytelling in animation. I'm also inspired by the use of perspective by artists like Wayne Barlowe (1-7), and Julio Lacerda (8-12), for creature design, their use of it to bring creatures from imagination to life is incredible to me. I also wish to render environments and characters with gestural perspective, show narrative importance and help further the stories I make. It was a lot harder for my to find examples of gestural perspective, ill find more and update this list when I can. Don't want to spend too long searching for images when I could be working.
Hi everyone! My big picture goal in taking this course is to improve my art fundamentals. I’m a 3D artist, but my art foundation has always been a barrier. I tend to rely on 3D software to interpret the world. I want to develop the ability to do this on a 2D plane using traditional tools, and to truly understand what’s happening, such as where the vanishing points and horizon line are, etc., rather than relying on software to do it for me. I understand that strong art fundamentals are essential for improving my 3D skills and for expressing my ideas on paper.
As a secondary goal, I also love looking through art books, and seeing those beautiful environments and concept art inspires me to create environments myself from the initial sketch all the way to a final 2D or 3D piece.
1. Collect some of your favorite drawings:
For this part of the assignment I scanned through the portfolios of two artists I deeply admire and enjoy (Remedios Varo and Moebius) and another artist that I became more familiar with as I was reading previous students' posts (Yoshida Toshi ... of whom I vaguely remember being introduced to previously, but hadn't taken the time to look more deeply into his work).
All of these artists combine intricate architectural design, natural landscapes and organic forms, and storytelling, in ways that I aspire to adopt. Each have their own unique perspectives as well. To me, Remedios tends to really focus on the inner life of her pictures' protagonists, and her recurrent use of spiritual, psychological, and alchemical themes (not to mention technical skill and use of geometry), are characteristics I treasure about her work. Moebius and Toshi also create incredible and technically impressive environments, but they incorporate societal elements more intentionally. Where Moebius adds elements that are completely imaginative yet seemingly practical, Toshi captures the beauty and simplicity in everyday life. What a wonderful trio to adopt as art parents!
Other notes here: browsing through other submissions, I really enjoyed some of the posts on more contemporary artists and sketchers who use 5-point perspective, curvilinear perspective, or fisheye perspective (I'm unsure of the differences between these, but hopefully this course will clear that up).
2. Big picture goal:
I will come back later and update with specific problems... For now, even though these are extremely broad goals that may also benefit from more specificity at a later point, I aspire to design complex exterior and interior environments and be able to move forms and figures around said environments. I like illustrative and sequential work, so I will be building those skills with those mediums in mind. The icing on the cake would be to get some cognitive training wheels for 5-point, curvilinear, and fisheye perspectives so that I can start using those in my sketching practice.
I related to basically everything you wrote. I am just starting the class so I still need to put my first project together.
I want to improve my intuitive understanding and overall perspective knowledge so that I can execute ideas and create art from my imagination with less resistance and less reliance on reference. I am a painter and tattoo artist diving deeper into my dedication and love for art everyday. I am also simply passionate about learning the fundamentals of art. I feel that perspective is a building block that everything else builds upon.
I'm looking to improve my drawing skills in general. I know how important perspective is, but my knowledge of the subject is very limited. I'm starting this course with a very open mindset. I'm looking forward to learning anything that comes my way.
I'm in awe of the work of so many artists, but here are a few examples. My father being a fan of science fiction, I've admired sci-fi art since I was little. For example, I love the work of John Harris. More recently, I've been amazed by anime. For instance, I find the backgrounds created by Shuichi Kusamori to be incredibly beautiful. As a last example, I've admired paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky for many years.
As for more specific potential perspective problems I'd like to solve, I would love to learn how to simplify objects into basic primitives and how to manipulate these primitives in perspective (for example, to draw a simplified human figure). I would also love to learn the rules/logic behind creating simple backgrounds.
I want to draw humans and often find that drawing the body figure needs perspective. For example, to lift an arm and point forward, or a raising or lowering head.
I want to learn perspective to make dynamic action poses, fantasy worlds by imagination, and how to make the characters fit in there. My biggest problem is looking at the paper as 2d instead of 3d. I want to be able to look at the paper is an infinite universe. Something that feels like you are reaching into another world. For this to happen, I need to have a good perspective foundation.
Here's some treasures I picked out after searching around on Pinterest! The two figure drawings are perfect examples of how I want to be able to draw all different kinds of things - seen from above or below, with some parts being closer to add depth and dramatic effect. Right now most of my drawings feel very flat, and learning this would help me improve my art A LOT.
The 5-point perspective one is also a style I absolutely love and want to learn - but this feels very far away right now, haha. I get dizzy just looking at the grids and help lines being used to draw this way. But perhaps it can be my ultimate end goal with this course! I just love the idea of being able to bring a sketchbook anywhere and just sketch up everything around you.
I also added four paintings with more of an environmental focus, with entire landscapes and a lot of depth. I don't really draw landscapes, but I just thought these images were so beautiful and good to study from a perspective point of view. I plan to use these for the upcoming assignment 5 Tricks to Make Your Drawings Look 3D.
I'm really excited to start learning about perspective.
My questions about drawing in perspective are:
how to draw objects at a low angle
how to draw symmetrical gears
how to rotate organic shapes
how to make extreme views look believable
I’ve been wanting to take this course ever since Marshall first mentioned working on it on the podcast! I’m so excited to improve my work!
Some perspective problems I want to solve:
- A worm’s eye view of a figure towering over the camera
- Drawing figures and props on a ground plane while maintaining proportion and form
- Figures interacting in general
- Shoes! Love em but the planes drive me crazy!
- I want to create solid worlds for my characters to live out their stories in.
When looking through my art inspiration board, I realized almost none of the pictures I’ve saved included backgrounds at all! (Minus Steven Sugar’s work!) Thanks to my fellow classmates, I’ve found new artists to study, especially Moebius!
(Apologies in advance if any of these end up being AI. Pinterest is flooded with AI art lately.)
Hey all! To be honest, I echo a lot of what has been said already by my fellow classmates.
I'm super stoked to finally be able to focus on perspective after years of avoiding it. My goal is that through Marshall's sagely wisdom and guidance, and my own practice, I'll be able to improve at the following skills:
- the fundamentals of perspective
- foreshortening
- drawing from imagination
- perhaps a little bit about composition (I'd like to draw a comic one day!)
I'll see all of you in the next lesson!
Hi everyone! I'm super excited to start this course and learn more about perspective. As an aspiring cartoonist, I believe it is a very important skill to have. Just learning to draw, all the way down to the fundamentals, is very important to me so that I can reach my potential as an artist. I have a wide range of influences with just a few listed below (because listing more would take up WAY too much space).
Right now, my big picture goals are:
1. Learn how to use perspective to enhance my storytelling.
2. Be able to look at something and draw it from any angle.
3. Understand how to blend dynamism and perspective to create interesting pieces that catch the eye.
4. Be able to draw ellipses in perspective.
5. Advance my understanding of vanishing points and horizon lines and beyond.
To anyone who read all this, I wish you the best of luck in the course and achieving your future goals in art, whatever they may be!
My goal is to master perspective completely and totally; you know, like everyone else!
More specific long-term goals would be:
1. Establish a solid foundational understanding of perspective theory.
2. Gain a practical knowledge of working with organic and curvilinear forms in perspective.
3. Learn how to place multiple objects—particular organic—in a scene, together and interacting, in such a way as to create a cohesive spatial illusion.
4. Experiment with extreme and experimental styles of perspective.
My main influences come mostly from manga artists. I collected art from Takehiko Inoue, Yusuke Murata, Akihito Tsukushi, Fujimoto, along with some other styles strewn in.
I want to become good at drawing scale and chaos, and hope to draw my own story where the environment plays a big part in defining the mood. For now, I’ll be set on learning the principles of perspective before deconstructing them.
