Do you struggle to translate perspective theory videos and diagrams into real life and know which ones are relevant? Let this video give you greater understanding of what's happening and how to understand it all.
@@sol9059we are talking about perspective here man. the fact that parallel lines appear to converge to a vanishing point, is like, the most fundamental thing about it...
Notes: 1 Point: Looking STRAIGHT ON or slightly sideways, eye level is on the subject 2 Point: Looking from a CORNER on a subject, with both sides showing. 3 Point: Looking from CLOSE UP with eye level looking UP or DOWN on the subject. X, Y and Z axis form a TRIANGLE 4 Point: Looking from CLOSE UP, with ALL X, Y and Z axis showing (fish eye lens) Perspective lines are also warped to a curve I added 4th from the current lesson Im on with another course, I'm training myself to intuitively see these lines, Im a figure painter and character artist, so with characters its not as apparent as buildings hence I put in a "cheat sheet" above to summarize the EFFECT of the perspective in relation to the subject, this way its ALOT easier for me to understand for squishy subjects 😀 Thanks so much Stephen for your insightful video! Its very easy to take a step out of "lesson mode" to "real world mode" and completely get flabbergasted by all the complexity, you can look at a scen and it be 1 point, then looking DOWN on the SAME scene and all of a sudden its 3 !
Thanks Kaizze. These are excellent points. I follow a few artists who create amazing fish eye distortions in their work. I’m boringly literal myself. 😆 If we draw what we see we don’t need to understand the ‘why’, but that’s no use if we’re drawing from imagination, as many do. Sounds like you have an excellent grasp on it all. Thanks for sharing this summary. 😀
re-watching again and feeling still in the same place. I was looking at my garbage can from a close position and from on top. I was thinking is this one or two point perspective. I turned it around and around and could not figure it out. Why can't I get this? Is it 1 point only if you slightly see the side but really only the front? two if you see both sides only and not the front? Someone help me please I am obsessed and can't get it. for your point one how much of the side can one see and then it changes from 1 point to 2?
@@applesauceandhoney2407 This was confusing me as well, but i think i undertstand it now. lets say the subject is a box, and if the front face of the box is parrelel with your eyes, then it is one point perspective, if you were to rotate that box, then it becomes two point perspective. So, lets say you are literally a box, and the box you are looking at is parrelel to you, meaning if you and the box were to kiss, the two boxes would be flat against eachother, then that is one point perspective. But if you were to rotate the box, meaning if you kissed the box, the corner of the box would be touching your flat face, then that is two point perspective. Hopefully that made sense lol
I just started watching your videos today, before I would think I got this ... then felt lost on what is going on. You clearly explain, and make sense of what occurs when looking a scene. Whether I’ve heard the rules before, I didn’t really hear them until now. Thanks for making it click & stick.
This video helped me to finally understand that perspective is based on the orientation of the viewer to the object, not an inherent perspective in an image. I would try to draw two point perspective, but then an object in the scene would be in one point and I wouldn’t know what to do or vice versa. This has been extremely insightful, thank you!
I never understood perspective, so I avoided it. Recently I was reading a book on carpentry that had a chapter on drafting (the book is from the 70s) which helped me realize most of what is taught to artists is a form a shorthand for more complex subjects. Well, when I was searching for examples that idea helped me trim the fat and find your channel, I'm very glad I did. serendipity's a wonderful thing.
TL;DR: Blender is free and it helped me understand perspective. Long read: Y'all I just did a bunch of experimenting with perspective using Blender. To be able to fully understand that beast. Basically, I created 1 cube, then used the extrude tool to extrude each side of the cube at different intervals. 10ft, 20ft, 8ft ect, all the way to 2560ft. Then, I duplicated that cube and rotated it on the Z axis to 45 degrees. Then used the wireframe modifier on both of them. That meant I had a perfect grid for 2 points and one point perspective on the same view, with perfect scaling distances and printed that sucker. Then those same cubes I rotated both on their X axis by 45 degrees and I had a 3 point perspective. (4 if you count the vanishing point in the middle or five if you duplicate it and rotated to -45) It was amazing. I had perfect distances in 3 point perspective. And I finally understood how it works. Because, no matter were I positioned those cubes the vanishing points always stayed the same, they only changed of I actually rotated them, but moving them around just gives you different camera angles.
Thank you so much, sir! You really hit it on the head when you said that while watching learning videos, we might be able to understand but when it comes to practical application, we feel lost. I'm just starting to draw and I'm so glad I found your wonderful channel.
The things you said about how the pictures might not match the theory helped a lot! Sometimes I be looking at pictures to practice observing perspective, the lines wouldn’t match up and I would be so confused why.
I've been trying to learn perspective uses since almost a week and I would say this video is the only one which absolutely cleared my mind! Thanks so much, Liked, Saved, Subscribed and Shared!
Brilliant video. Finally someone explains the reasons for placing the vanishing point at one position and not another. I think this is the first time I see it being explained. The same goes for the existence and importance on the vertical "horizon" in the 3 point perspective. Thanks!
@@stephentraversart Yes, thanks for the"vertical eye level"!! I knew all the rest, but this helps in real life (or imagination) drawing. Also, the 3point explanation for close, big objects was helpful!
I have a perspective playlist that puts them all in one place if you’re interested Kyle. At some point you’ll realise you can’t draw wrong perspective even if you try!😆
Hi Stephen! I am a portrait artist who is finally branching out (after way too long), I've just found your channel and I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you must put into your videos. I found this extremely helpful, thank you for including so many different example, this video is great for artists of all levels. I'm looking forward to learning more from you, and I hope you have a great day :)
The topic wonderfully explained. I have seen many recordings on the subject of perspective, but only this one has completed the few missing information for me. Thank you
When photographing architecture with a view camera, the vertical vanishing point is reduced or eliminated in common practice. This is done by shifting the lens with respect to the film.
this was so extremely helpful! not only the explanation is easy to understand, but the examples given were great!! thanks a lot, will be watching more videos from now on :)
Thank you thank you thank you so much for making this video. Learning the concepts and applying them to real life projects/situations is something I also struggle with, and this has been immensely helpful. I'd love to see this same info but applied to natural landscapes instead of buildings/cities.
From one Stephen to another, thank you! I have a background in math and for some reason it took until your video for me to connect perspective with positions in 3D space and how you would view the coordinate planes. For me it clicked when I realized 1-point perspective is constrained to viewing along (or very nearby to) an axis, 2-point is any point along a plane, and 3-point is any point in 3D space which is why you have 2 horizon lines. I may have done a terrible job explaining my thoughts, but the point is I believe I can intuit what's trying to be explained by perspective now. 😅
Haha. Maths was my least favourite subject at school, but what you have written sounds like you’ve really connected it all very well with a more mathematical framing for understanding the world. Glad to have helped. 😀
This is great !!!! I’ve watched so many videos about perspective and i was still so confused. Now I’m starting to understand thanks a lot, you are a lifesaver!
Stephen, once again many thanks for simplifying things, this time on Perspective . I can now see how one can break down complex architectural structures into blocks and join them all up. Your use of the lengthy coloured tapes to mark 1,2 & 3 Point Perspectives is pure genius , as I see it helps to isolate/breakdown the structure with all its complex details , into manageable blocks to put down on paper and finally link/join them up together to complete the picture. 💯💥👌👋
Beautifully explained.I am a hobby artist and have struggled with buildings in my paintings as they turn out out of syn sometimes.Getting the hang of it and will certainly be more observant in future.Thanks
thank you for this video , I'm in uni rn studying concept and comic art and were in the gap period between first and second year, this video has been a very helpful refresher
Was trying to figure out how to get perspective to work with a drawing I was doing of some woods at a dramatic angle. This helped me figure it all out.
Hi💕 I’m staring at your beautiful painting looking at your edges. I keep wishing you’d get out a teacher’s pointer and walk us through how and why you chose which edges for the different areas in this painting. The branches are hard edged. The dark background leaf shapes too seem to have a distinct edge quality. Then the highlighted leaf shapes in front are pretty fuzzy. Why? I would have thought, background leaf silhouettes should be blurry and foreground leaf shapes clearer and crisper!
I’m afraid answering all these questions would take forever and I don’t really have an oil painting channel. But there are no hard leaf edges because the scale doesn’t allow it. Instead I use colour brightness and value more than edges for depth. But the furthest canopy edges are softer than the closer ones. 😀
Thanks. I have a couple of perspective playlists if you’re interested. Some of them a big picture approach, others an alternative to the box/vanishing points theory diagrams. I think the ones on eye level are particularly helpful in clearing up/clarifying lots of perspective issues. All the best. 😀
You actually made me tear up.... I have been struggling with those exact things.... frustratingly trying to recreate an image in my creative mind; using reference drawings that are similar is helpful; but the genius comes from bringing MY image to life and many times it misses. Thank you so much for validating the source and offering a solution!
"Sometimes we're very high..." So true. I've been drawing 3-point perspective for the last few months and I noticed you can't have a flat plane perpendicular to your sight line directly in front of you. Just the corner. Also from 2-point up, the view gets more distorted until you are in shiny ball in MC Escher's hand (6-point). Vanishing Point was a great 70's movie.
i like it every time i watch your videos the more i learn,i liked the part when diferente perspective points meet,like the spire scene,it would b cool more videos like that when they meet
That’s what I want to hear Efrain, so thank you so much for telling me. Really appreciate it. All the best with your drawing. I have a video on drawing spires as well. 😀
Hi Stephen! I recently realized that I tend to draw in Birds Eye perspective so I started searching for other ways to Dra perspective and I came across your channel... You've got really helpful vids! I'd recommend it to any artists trying to improve their drawing skills - cheers!
Also of note from this photographer is that certain building shots can appear slightly out of natural proportion depending on the type or length of lens used as well as the camera. Professional photography software can correct the “skew” of buildings by correcting the perspective.
@@stephentraversart the hardest thing I find as a beginner is where to start, there is so much information on the net, and classes teach you to draw apples, a literal video series from 1 on would be so helpful to follow a process of learning, even if it included book readings, even a pay subscription it would so be worth it to have a clear start and progression, I live in Australia but even finding in person classes that have a steady progression are non existent. Hope as a creator it helps to hear from a newbie. Thank you for amazing content 🙏
Wow this video is really helpful! I didn't take into consideration the y axis eye level, although I can already tell where the horizontal eye level is, very glad that I watched this video lol thank you so much for this^^
Yet again very good and also the point of Photography as a reference, to what is actually seen with our eyes as opposed to the camera that exaggerates the perspective or converging verticals that can lend itself or detract from the photo, dependant on what you are trying to achieve, I used it along with very threatening Sophie’s and high contrast on a photo of Church in Le Manns that people often say looks spooky!
Thank you sooo sooo much for the wonderful explanation! I was really bothered after watching so many tutorials on how to draw those but nobody explained what it is and why you need this, so I was totally lost and did not know what I am actually drawing into those lines... I would love to see your explanation what 4 and 5 point is when it is needed and if there is a 6 point or higher in theory? Thank you fantastic content!
Glad it was so helpful. Thanks for sharing this with me. Check out Paul Heaston on Instagram if you’re interested in 4 or 5 point perspective. His work is amazing and he has some Reels on how he draws it. Afraid it’s not in my experience 😀
That’s great Jeremie. I have two perspective playlists if you’re interested. One is a 10 video set which make up a bit of a course you might find helpful. Espigar situations where the box on flat ground doesn’t seem to apply. All the best. 😀
Thanks. Afraid I don’t know much about cameras. But the latest iPhone has a phone edit feature which removes the lens distortion. Sadly, not mine though. 😀
