*To anyone who has been searching for an explanation of the horizon line: THIS IS IT! I've been painting for years and have helped others and can say that this is the best tutorial on the subject, hands down. While others complicate and confuse, Diane brilliantly, and clearly, discusses and demonstrates the horizon line so that anyone can understand in less than seventeen minutes. Well worth watching. Thanks for posting.
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Great explanation! I’ve watched some single point perspective tutorials and tried drawing using the information in sketching but always struggled because I thought the horizon was the vanishing point and then there was the dilemma when the horizon was not in sight. I’ve been at this for less than a year so I won’t beat myself up too much. Thank you for the tutorial.
Thank. you so much Dianne! You make learning to easy!I I always thought my horizon line was the horizon in a landscape. Now I really need to practice this!
Yes, if you are doing realistic drawing or painting. Playing with multiple horizon lines has been one way artists have played with visual space. The vanishing point is always that point at which the left and the right lines above and below the horizon line meet.
Excellent teacher, I've been painting for about 17/18 year's more than half my life and still are learning. As a painter or artist you never stop learning, I'll be a student of drawing and painting till my last day's and I've enjoyed every minute of it, it's the greatest hobby in the world for its endless possibilities and endless learning.
A wonderful clarification of 'horizontal line" vs. "horizon". I've read books and articles on perspective and never fully understood the concept until watching this quick tip. Thanks Diane!
i challenge anyone to find a better explanation ANYWHERE. All the comic book hotshots and art instructors, awesome people they are, fail to explain it's simply where the tilted lines become horizontal. As well as explaining that where the tilted lines below and above intersect is where you always always find the horizon (horizontal) line! Jeez louise. Thank you Dianne
The most important is the love you give to. Thanks for the tips. Yeah! I myself had forgotten the horizon line has nothing to do with horizont in front.
What a great teacher! This video has great variety of examples from finding the horizon line through buildings, indoors, and outdoors. Sometimes seeing it on paper, instead of a Photoshop demonstration is exactly as needed. Thank you!
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Thank you for this wonderfully clear explanation. As someone who has always been intimidated by perspective, having a straight forward understanding of the horizon line has helped me immensely. You are a wonderful teacher.
The vanishing point is important because of how our eyes perceive. For example, looking at a simple four-sided building at a place where you can see two sides of it, our eyes cause the edges of the tops and bottoms of each side to tilt towards the horizon line. If we extend the drawing of those lines to touch the horizon line, they both will meet at the same spot. That's their vanishing point. Hope this helps.
This was SUCH a great explanation!! It's been a while since I covered perspective and this was the perfect refresher. Super easy to follow and I loved all the examples! Amazing!!
this is an incredibly helpful explanation ! i have been doing mental gymnastics trying to get my land and sky to meet, all my figures eye lines, and my vanishing point, to all end up on the same horizontal line, while also struggling to figure out where my piece is being viewed from ! thank you for this succinct lesson !
camera person must focus on what your hands are doing. I didn't understand anything at the end about the landscape because the camera didn't focus on your hands making the lines. FOCUS, camera.
Are you familiar with our RU-vid live chats? To view recordings of all the chats, go to www.youtube.com/@IntheStudioArtInstruction/streams . Several of them address things to consider when putting a painting together. Then at our website--diannemize.com -- we have lesson downloads to guide you through the process.
So if I’m not painting from a picture, doing a landscape, should my first step be to establish the horizon line? I know this probably sounds obvious, but I see so many videos where people just start with the sky and work down.
If the horizon is going to be clear where it is I would i.e. you can see the horizon line. When I start a landscape or other's do I paint the sky first simply because the trees or building's will be in front. Putting the horizon line in you can still help you even if its going to be painted over. There's lots of ways to go about it.
Keep in mind that the "horizon line" is your vantage point, not where the sky meets the sky. Where the earth meets the sky is the horizon itself, but when we use the word "horizon" as an adjective to "line", it goes straight ahead of where your eye level is. Watch the Quick Tip again with this understanding.
I just came across this video on my search because I am starting to draw again. I never had a class so I look for everything online. This is a fantastic explanation, the BEST I have seen. Thank you so much.
Yes, the physical horizon is where sky meets land or water. But the visual horizon line of your viewpoint is whatever is aligned with your eye level--whether you are looking straight ahead, from above, from below, etc.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I'm having trouble finding the eye line, when there are no other objects to indicate where the vanishing points and the eye line are.
Could you do a quick tip or do you have one on painting iridescent colors? For instance, how to paint the pretty head of a male mallard duck and try to capture or imitate that shiny iridescent green?
I'm not really clear on what you are asking, but one of the best ways to scale down is with a rule-of-thirds grid. Check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z8B3XjoyCDg.html
Imagine your in a pine forest laying on your back looking up at the pine trees you will see that the trees all converge to one point .. the view point vw. it's not the landscape Horizon ... :) it can be quite complex when you start to bring in light and shadows, hills and valleys circles and ovals in to it ... :) another great lesson !
Look for shadow first, then observe within your subject their values, then look at how those values differ from areas not in shadow. When you paint them, stick to the degree of value contrast you are observing.
Thank you Diane this has been helpful. Especially the point about it's not about land and sky meeting but only ever eye level i just need to practice more now but i think the penny has dropped thank you very much
Thank you Diane - Best explanation of horizon line. I have taken many classes and no one has explained it so well. It helped so much that you made the point that the "horizon line" in drawing and painting is really the "vantage point" and that the actual horizon of the landscape may or may not be the same as the vantage point.
We can't make rules about these things. In "The Last Supper", Leonardo put the horizon line in dead center (or middle). Where you put it defines where you are located, looking straight ahead. If your eye level is located lower to the ground, your "horizon line" will be lower down, even though the earth's horizon might be located higher up on the painting surface.
We can't make rules about that. The best way is find distant values (all values) is to squint and compare one value to another. Remember the range from black to white and imagine where the values you find fit within this range.
