perspective hacks 

Your pfp looks like something drawn by Segovia

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this is awesome

ikr. for the first time in forever i get how to draw perspective. usually people only teach boxes and simple shapes which is easy to understand but then when i try to apply i cant imagine how to start.

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What a wonderful comment Joe, may I see your work?

Aww, I didn't make the video but I still think this comment is heart warming. Happy for you dude

Yt channels that have actual ability to boost practical art skills for real.

Finch is remarkably generous with his knowledge and experience. I too have learnt a truckload just watching his free tutorials, most bury their nuggets of wisdom behind pay walls but Finch just shares them.

wow ty!

In this case yes. The general rule is not to put the third point to far out, as it can distort shapes (squares > diamonds) due to a larger field of vision.

It would be on the horizon with something like an ocean where you can't see the end of your scene

On the off chance you weren't just looking to make a joke, the horizon line should be synonymous with the eye line of the viewer, that is to say the horizon should generally always be at the same height as the viewer's eyes. So you have to consider where you want the viewer to be looking from, and to some extent even consider how tall they are, or if they would be standing/sitting/floating in the air/laying down on the ground/etc. If the target audience are children, then it might make sense to use a lower eye line so adults heads are well above the horizon, while drawn children around the same target age as the viewer would have their eyes roughly line up with the horizon. Alternatively, if the viewer is intended to be an adult, then the eyes of adult characters should be around the horizon line, with maybe the males on average being a bit above it, and the females a bit below it if you want to split the difference between them. While any children characters would be well below the horizon, assuming the goal was to portray a scene from the point of view of a standing adult observer. How high or low on the page the horizon line is will also depend a lot on if the view is tilted up or down, with the horizon line moving opposite of that tilt (looking up pushes the horizon down, while looking down sends it higher on the frame/page). Tilting the view is also what brings in the third point in a 3 point perspective image; if the view was roughly perpendicular to the ground, then you would only be dealing with either 1 or 2 point perspective, as the vertical lines would be parallel with the sides of the frame usually in that case. A good starting point for a horizon in an image without tilt would be to cut across the middle of the frame, though if you want to showcase either the ground or the sky, it is fine to shift it from the center up or down as needed to show off whatever is important in the scene.

@@Uradamus I was being serious actually and I really needed this comment. Thank you so much, I never knew how to handle the horizon line, or even what it was for. I just put it as “there’s the floor” all the time. I will be screen capping this, thank you again!

@@Uradamus this is the most helpful comment I have seen so far. Thanks 😊

Don't worry! Spending tonnes of time having to study from reference is how it works near the beginning. You'll naturally stop needing to use ref as you keep drawing

Just be sure that you aren't copying the reference exactly but just using it to understand the object

Yes!

I've been spending the holidays with my wife's family and noticed her cousin taking pix of the most mundane stuff. Streets, rooms, car interiors. I asked if he found artistic value in every day street settings. "No. I'm an illustrator. This is all reference so I don't have to make up what everyday life looks like." 🤣

@@WanJae42 I may start doing this lol 😂