This is embarrassing, but having been an illustrator for 30+ years it never occurred to me to cut my erasers down to create a sharp point! Thanks for that.
Well I learned something new lol. But seriously, my main problem with vanishing points is that in order for a drawing to not look distorted you need the VPs to be well outside your drawing area and unless you use like a giant board were you place thumb tucks with cords or whatever it's very hard to get the lines right so I was wondering if there is a way to figure out VPs accurately without having to actually draw them so you can calculate them properly on even a small drawing. So far no luck on finding such a technique :(
They don’t always have to be that far apart. It depends on where the object is relative to your cone of vision and the scale of the object as well. The whole idea is that you will practice these concepts long enough that they become intuitive so that you won’t have to draw vp’s (that is unless you are doing technical projections), but for the sake of imaginative creation it just isn’t necessary. All this being said there are perspective grids that can be used with light tables or just as reference that allow you to do just as you wanted. If you don’t like those, they also sell tools to create grids based on curvilinear principles, but they require a learning curve that I feel isn’t worth it when you could just draw the vp’s. Oh and a little trick that I just remembered is to look at and measure angles. What I mean is for ex. All angles on one face of a rectangular prism or cube I think should add up to 360 degrees and 180 for triangular prisms. So you can add the angles up to check if that particular face is in correct perspective. From there you would add the other viewable faces and make sure that their angles all add up as well. However I think this only works for axonometric perspective,so what I tend to do is offset the angles connected to the non leading corners by one or a few degrees and that should get you close enough to the true angles leading to a vp.I know that this is a terrible explanation but hopefully you can understand what I’m trying to say. Anyway hope this helps.
I am unreasonably excited to do this course. 😁 Great stuff, Marshall and Proko! btw Team Proko, your link in description to the course is missing a "VE". Currently it's linking to a "Perspecti" course 😉
We're excited it's finally out in the world! I checked in on the link you mentioned and don't see it missing any letters but there's a possibility that another Proko team member already came through and updated that. Thanks for letting us know!
Thank you for the video! It's reassuring knowing professionally trained artists require tools to help draw. I don't know why I didn't think of it before and now I feel silly but inspired
When I was studying in drawing class they didn't allow us any tools. We were training to make straight lines without ruler and round circles without compass. It is very hard in the beginning, but then you don't need anything but pencil to draw. Think about it😅
Sir perspective in square or rectangular looks easy but when it comes to draw other shapes or an object it feel confused and hard to understand perspective
It hurts that the first thing I learned is perspective rather than the human body. It feels like I went to get shot at the kidney then wrote about it while it is bleeding out waiting for it to heal.
All I’m waiting for him to say is “I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.”
Got a whole playlist of lessons that goes fully into male and female anatomy. Hope it helps! ru-vid.com/group/PLtG4P3lq8RHFBeVaruf2JjyQmZJH4__Zv&si=GuVQ4uG7EAgiebag
