I feel the same as a lot of your commenters - FANTASTIC video! I appreciate how thorough and clear this is. Also, I really loved the tip on how to add additional points to help draw an accurate circle within a square. Looking forward to checking out your other videos. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
You're such a legend mate! Thank you so much so helpful!!! And explained so we'll and simple! I kept getting lost in perspective making it all complicated, thanks again!
Hello Brian, I am currently working on my drawings to put in my portfolio and for so, so long I've been looking for explanations on how to get the right measure in perspective. I have never been succesful until I saw your demonstration. So, thank you, thank you, thank you a lot for this clear explanation. Without your video, I honestly would've stayed stuck! Thank you and God bless you!
Just subbed. I was browsing for mathematical solutions for perspective when I came across your thorough and well presented geometric solutions I hadn't seen before. Thanks!
This is by far the most helpful tutorial about perspective, most other channels would say "use that 3PP, 2PP, and 1PP bla bla bla..." Thanks for making this video, it helped me a bunch!!
You did actually made perspective easier .. I'm a foreign from iraq. I studied English language and since I like drawing very much I started with Andrew Looms books so I had some difficulty when reached the chapter on perspective. But I'm now really enjoying it. So thank you ^_^
Thanks for the sub. please check out the rest of my vids you might find something else you like as well. ru-vid.com/show-UCaxN2CbgAyENbYZCWAspqBwvideos
Your welcome, please check out more of my videos, I'm sure you will find lots more that's helpful as well. ru-vid.com/show-UCaxN2CbgAyENbYZCWAspqBwvideos
Your welcome. I remade this video an added extra because RU-vid is taking my videos down, you can only have so many up at one time, and I think/thought that was one, but check out the new one it may help some more, and I am going to do a part 2 and get into 2 point perspective. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KQqvF1zmLhE.html
I've been looking for this video my whole life. This is the first time I watch a 30 minute youtube video and it was so worth it. I used to put pencils on the ground with specific distances between them just to know how I can anticipate the decreace in the visual distance when looking from a perspective. Thank you so much.
This is really helpful! Thanks! Do you have a video for measuring out the room first ( versus measuring the drawing after it's already sketched?) I'm trying to draw my living room, but i can't get the back wall in the right place. The room is looking squashed. There has to be a way besides me guessing 😂
If I'm not mistaken you have to draw it out first. draw your back wall, and for every inch that would be a foot, so once you have height and width of the wall then you know the side wall in perspective, and then use the guidelines to place the furniture.
I think the base to the question is that you didn't start with an accurate square. You chose a random place for the back wall, so we have to assume it's a rectangle not a square... Which is how it looks as well. So the best way to do accurate "squares" in perspective is to have a measuring line. I am trying to get a refresher on it which is why I watched your video. Very good stuff, accurate enough for art. But some times we need mor precision. Nothing to do with the ruler, by the way. There is a way to make accurate measurements in perspective using the X & + technique that you show, so long as you begin with an accurate FIRST SQUARE. Great stuff other than that one factor, but based on your title I expected to find what I needed. You are obviously a good artist so keep the videos coming!
That is exactly why I came to this video. I don't know what you mean by that first square. Do you have any video I could use to get perfect squares in perspective?
I feel like I made a RU-vid friend in you Brian. You get me. We similar. I'm subscribing. One day me and you will be working on a big project together bro. All the best to you. I really would like a drawing partner though.
How does one position poles or posts in perspective so they appear correct for a certain distance? This applies especially to the first two closest to the viewer from which everything farther away is established.
really cool Video, but.. 16:55 ... how can you tell that each of those Segments represents one Foot? sure you divided the depth in 11 same sized pieces, but each of them could also measure 2ft in depth, coudnt it? :)I meen look at the floor squares in the front look way longer than they are wide ... thats kinda odd
Thanks for the comment and checking out the video. The hole thing is meant to show you/the viewer, the steps to doing perspective. I didn't draw it perfectly using a ruler to save time, don't concentrate so much on the picture, just the step it takes to make the picture.
You as the artist determine how big each square is going to be, 1.ft or 100.ft. If I drew a person or a couch on top of one of the squares then you/ the viewer would know right away how big each square was. hope that helps.
wow, thats a quick reply.. thx :D ... but well see i am looking for a way of measuring the depth. Sure in 12:33 the Artist can determine like here "1 feet" .. thats fine. But how do you know that the result of yur technique are "squares" ... and not only rectangles? As i see it, the depth of those rectangles depends on where you place the back wall. And in 12:11 you just place it somewhere. Efen if it is near the perspectife Point in the distance, you will always divide the room in 11 segments, which is cool... but doesnt allow me to measure the room in feet.Look at your Couch. You use (2x3) = 6 floor rectangles for it. So i can tell, yea it is definitly 2 feet wide.. but i cant tell if it is 3 feet Long, or 6 feet, or 8.. .. and in case you would have put yor back wall near the Horizont .. the 2x3 Couch would look like it is one Kilometer long. :S ... So the question remains, how one can create a exact Square which isnt contorted. :)
If I am understanding you right, and I might not be, but if so I will write you off line and help you as much as I can. But lets go with what I think you are trying to say. (and yes, I was on line when you wrote). Any time you put a perfect square in perspective it will become contorted. That's just the way it is. EXAMPLE, If you have a six inch long cell phone, and you turn it at an angle it still measures six inches it might not look like it's six inches long, but it still is, so if you take 10 phones lined them up and looked at them from an angle, (long story short) you would have a five foot deep room,... shell we say, with each phone looking contorted. So, if you draw your squares 1.ft by 1.ft then you will be able to measure your room perfectly, so each piece of furniture or whatever you place on the floor will fit on and across the squares to make what ever size you want, the same way as going up the wall, each square is 1 foot. so 10 squares up and 10 squares across will give you a perfect 10x10 foot room. I hope that helps and was what you were looking for, if not write me at Bbrianproctor@gmail.com and we will go from there.
Thx .. but i found a different way to get a perfect Square. :) I made a photo of a Square, which was in perspective,.. then i moved it inside my Picture and fitted it into my perspective lines. From there it was easy to projekt it on my other Surfaces.... so finally i ve got a reall square there with also fitts in it's depth. :)
To clarify, because it starts with a rectangle, you just created 11 accurate rectangles that are 1 foot wide, not 1'x 1' squares... Because we don't know the distance to the wall. This is what the first comments were about as well.
Steve first Thanks for watching my video. This was made for the beginner who known very little to nothing about perspective, so they can get started draw. Most perspective vid lesions have to many rules and restrictions for drawing, this was made to give beginners a starting point.
I've been fucking with percentages to measure distance in perspective and I feel like a sub-moron for not thinking of just drafting a Goddamn slash across my lines. I'm going to go crawl under a table, throw up, and never leave.
you got it completely wrong... you need to find a measure point first... can't you see that moving away from you the tiles which are supposed to be square are very rectangular?= they must be shorter!!
It's for beginners, it's a starting point, example: when you first learn to drive, did they put you on the highway? or was it an empty parking lot or back road,.....same thing.
