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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
LESSON NOTES
In this lesson, I'll show you two important perspective techniques: the X and the X-ray.
The X technique helps you find the midpoint of rectangles, which is key for keeping things in proportion especially when you have repeating sections. The X-ray technique is great for dealing with parts of your drawing you can't see. I'll walk you through drawing Steve from Minecraft so you can see how these techniques help you construct complex structures in 2-point perspective.
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Try out these two perspective drawing tricks to improve your accuracy. The 'X' and 'X-ray' techniques are great for getting the alignment, symmetry, and proportions right when constructing a drawing.
My Steve looks like it slept only 3 hours xd
The X method is actually witchcraft!! OMG, I never heard of it before and being able to split a cube so quickly without a ruler is crazy.
I'll have to try drawing a villager next - that's the most popular Minecraft character in my house. I also cheated a used a ruler a bit for the grid on the head. Even still, I messed up the spacing on a few - the eye on the right is too big.
good practice, I realized sometimes my x weren’t landing the center line correctly because my lines weren’t converging, so this was a relief to figure out, great vid
How would you apply this to normal human anatomy? Like when the arm is behind the rest of the body? That is something I have always struggled with. With boxes it now makes sense but what about more organic figures
