Drawing In Perspective

A complete guide to draw in the various forms of perspective

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.3

- Draw any object or subject in a multitude of perspectives
- Have a clear understanding of who to build perspective grids
- Develop a critical analisis of everyday objects and their simplified forms

What you'll learn

Draw any object or subject in a multitude of perspectives

Have a clear understanding of who to build perspective grids

Develop a critical analisis of everyday objects and their simplified forms

* Requirements

* The course requires no previous skill. It requires only a few sheets of normal printer paper
* and a pencil.
* Having an eraser
* other drawing tools such as pens and eventually a ruler
* will help.

Description

Do you like to draw but aren't very comfortable with drawing in perspective? Read on!

In this course, I've taken decades of my personal experience and knowledge and synthesized them into an easy to follow format that will teach you all about drawing in perspective.
Some people feel intimidated by the technical aspect of drawing in perspective and that is why most give up. I've designed the course you can follow along with no precision tools at all. You can follow each and every lecture freehand and still get similar results.

Most of what you will learn will have immediate application.
The course is divided into various sections dealing with:

1 point perspective
2 point perspective and
3 point perspective

Also added to the course are lectures dedicated to

4 point perspective and
Curvilinear perspective
Building shadows in perspective

Each section includes an exercise for you to test what you learned

===== ENROLL NOW and start drawing amazing worlds =====

Who this course is for:

This course is aimed at people who love to draw. Professionally or as a hobby.
Graphics designers, Illustrators, Arquitechts, Industrial designers, Comic Book Artists, Concept Designers

Course content

6 sections • 28 lectures

Introduction 3 lectures

Introduction Preview 02:27

Understading the quirks of perspective Preview 05:16

This lecture will introduce you to the particularities and quirks of drawing in perspective. Understanding that a three dimensional world has to be placed onto a two dimensional surface requires you to understand what happens to what is in front of you when you want to draw it.

Materials to be used and Exercises Preview 05:58

In this lecture we are going to have a look at the materials that we will be using in the course, as well as some of the techniques I suggest you practice when you can, to improve your penmanship and skill.

1 point perspective 10 lectures

Basic 1-point perspective grid Preview 07:14

Starting out very easy with a 1 point perspective construction. The lecture teaches you the foundation rules for creating a 1 point perspective grid.

Drawing a simple cube Preview 06:49

Now that you can create a 3d space in 1 point perspective, you should be able to follow along and draw a cube. We take what we learned before and create a 3d volume.

Scaling objects in depth Preview 06:03

Scaling objects as the get further and further away from us is complicated if you don't know the structure behind it. Once you do, it becomes very natural. In this lecture you will learn to do just that

Drawing circles Preview 07:29

Drawing circles is made easy in a flat view with utensils, but if you want to draw them in perspective you have to understand what happens to them when they get deformed by a 1 point perspective.

Drawing Circles - continued Preview 06:16

While the previous lecture focused on creating a a circle drawing in a loose way, this one shows a more precise method for drawing circles in perspective

Drawing Circles freehand Preview 10:20

Drawing freehand solid primitives Preview 07:38

Using the skill we acquired so far, in this lecture we'll have a go at drawing some different primitive solid shapes.

Interior Scene in 1 point perspective Preview 08:00

1 Point perspective is a very effective perspective for drawing interior scenes. Understanding how to build a room using 1 point perspective is a very helpful thing to know.
This lecture deals with the construction of the volumes but viewed from the inside.

Drawing freehand complex shapes Preview 10:14

Working completely freehand we are going to draw a spaceship which has an iconic yet simple shape.

EXERCISE - 1 point perspective exercise Preview 00:03

Time to practice!

2 point perspective 7 lectures

Creating the 2 Point Perspective grid Preview 09:40

This lecture introduces you to the concept of 2 point perspective, where we add another vanishing point to the drawing and use that to create another reference for the other set of parallele lines

Complex Volumes in 2 Point Perspective - Opened Book Preview 05:04

In this lecture we will look at creating shapes and volumes with odd angles as well as with curved surfaces and edges.

Using digital tools Preview 10:40

In this lecture we are going to have a go at using digital tools to create a drawing in perspective. We will start with illustrator, where I use a mouse to create a basic perspective grid and volume and then jump to photoshop to illustrate it, using a wacom pen

Drawing a hidroplane in 2 point perspective Preview 09:37

Complex shapes are harder to draw in perspective. But if we break them down in simple volumes we can draw a complex shape quite easily.

Street scene in 2 point perspective Preview 07:46

This lecture places the viewer in the middle of an intersection and using 2 point perspective, we draw the surrounding objects and buildings.

Finding Shadows Preview 07:26

Calculating shadows can be made precise by understanding how do you find your reference point for light source and objects. This will provide you with a better idea of what shadows are supposed to look like, and therefore train you to better eyeball shadows in the future.

EXERCISE - 2 point perspective exercise Preview 00:08

Time to practice! again!

3 point perspective 4 lectures

Simple cube in 3 Point Perspective Preview 06:55

Moving on from 2 point perspective we will have a go at drawing 3 point perspective. This changes a few things in what we already do in 1 and 2 point perspective, but the rules are the same.

Drawing a Camera using 3 Point Perspective Preview 09:06

This lecture shows how we can create an illustration of an object you might have sitting around next to you. So grab something you may have handy and try and follow along with the concepts.

Architectural landmarks in 3 Point Perspective Preview 07:44

Using 3 point perspective you can build a structure that will help you replicate on a drawing what you are seeing in the real world. Such as a land mark. Using an underlying grid you can make sure your drawing is well established.
This lecture shows an example of that.

EXERCISE - 3 point perspective exercise Preview 00:11

Bonus Section 3 lectures

Using perspective to draw organic shapes Preview 08:38

While organic tend to be more dynamic in their illustration and rendering, it doesn't mean we can't decompose them into simpler shapes. This lecture shows you the process I use to guess and structure the drawing of a head, and how that translates into any angle of pose I need to draw.

4 point perspective Preview 09:12

=== DOWNLOAD RESOURCES - reference 4 Point Perspective grid for you to experiment with ===
Exploring the limits of 1, 2 and 3 point perspective, we find that sometimes things start to warp and deform as we get into the extremes of the perspective. But using a 4 point perspective, we can actually create something we don't usually see in the manuals.

Curvilinear perspective Preview 11:08

===== DOWNLOAD RESOURCES - reference curvilinear perspective grid for you to experiment with. =====
Curvilinear perspective usually focuses on condensing the whole range of the human eye into a small area, thus creating the same effect that wide lenses or fish-eye lens do. Lines bulge out and curve to create sphere like surface.