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PERSPECTIVE & WARPED PERSPECTIVE TUTORIALS with Samples

Before you start reading my tutorial, please consider helping out a dying artist. I created this tutorial in hoping to bring people to support my activity on Patreon. Guess what?! Nearly 10K notes and only +60 people decided to back me up. I have always been supportive to improvement of aspiring artists, people eager to learn and have never asked for a single dime. I’m in a verge of giving up art and go homeless for real and once in my life I beg internet to support me.

Support me on Patreon so I don’t have to quite art.
MY PATREON PAGE –> www.patreon.com/toshinho

I give up, but thanks. Enjoy the tutorial and have a nice day.

I’ve archived series of perspective & warped perspective tutorials that I made in the past with minor revisions and added samples. I believe some people have struggle with perspective probably because of the impression of complexity and the fancy terms that comes with it. I’ve met many artists that just didn’t want to deal with the all fancy terms like “3 point/4 point” perspective and walked away from it and I understand that feeling. Personally these terms are quite useless and that the important part of perspective drawing is really just capturing the dimension and getting use to it. (When I do perspective drawing I put very little consciousness in points & lines but towards how my brain is seeing the depth and dimension.)

When I first learned perspective drawing in elementary school art class, my teacher taught me the conventional method with ruler, lines and dots. While it provide accuracy, it tends to require alot of lines and wide space where your starting points existing way off the page and perhaps this might be the reason why some people find it tedious and hard to deal with. So I’m going to ditch using ruler and the fancy term and demonstrate them in much simpler approach.

I purposely build these tutorials in raw pencil rather than the nice looking digital tutorials because I want to show you that it’s not about the precision and accuracy that makes convincing perspective but a daily scribble and eye-balling. Treat them like any other drawing practice, doing tons of freehand and eye-balling to grasp the dimension in your head. I wont stop you from making a use of a ruler, however perspective drawing is a vital practice to improve your line work as well. (Personally when I use a ruler, my perspective looses the sense of dynamics and objects would look too uniform. Besides clean straight lines has no personality and can look dull at times.)

1 BOX - Method

  • The idea is that when drawing 2 squares with different size (having same or similar ratio) you have already managed to create an illusion of dimension. By connecting each corners with four lines you are dealing with perspective. The key to this practice is that you’re trying to place your consciousness on dimension and not towards drawing a nice looking box. Train your eye-balling by making use of the four extending lines from each corners to get the perspective line without the need of referencing the focal (center) point.

2 & 3 PLANE - Method (The lower portion of third image)

  • Basically it’s the reverse of conventional point based perspective. You’re not drawing from the point but towards the imaginary point. When you draw a square shape in an angle, you manage to create first step of illusion that suggest dimension, so this tutorial is trying to take advantage of that situation. (Tho it’s heavily dependent towards your EYE-BALLING SKILLS!)

4 FISH - EYE TUTORIAL

  • This is pseudo “Fish-Eye” tutorial that is trying to simulate fish-eye lens on a camera. The idea is that the object close to the center has fewer distortion and will cause more distortion as it gets further towards the edge of the lens (sphere). I believe that warped perspective requires a bit of confidence in handling normal perspective drawing. More so the sense in eye balling is needed, so get use the normal perspective drawing first and then start mixing warped perspective into your practice.

My 2 cent is that rather than using a big space on an empty page/canvas, draw a frame and then start drawing. (You can see me do that on few of my samples.) This tip apply to general drawing as well since “big empty canvas” can be a bit intimidating. By setting a frame or a border, it’s actually you’re first attempt on creating an illusion in a 2D space.

My final note is that even though you’re doing a freehand, a sloppy lines will break the illusion, so pay attention to where the line starts, how it flow and where it ends.

Support me on Patreon so I can create more artworks and tutorials!
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Architectural Visualizations by lichtecht

Since 2001 lichtecht in Hamburg, Germany has been producing first-class three-dimensional content for the Internet, print and film. At lichtecht, Matthias Arndt explains, every two months they tackle a new internal project for fun and to learn something new. Here are some projects from those explorations and their visualizations portfolio:

  • Joseph Kosinski Skytower (images 01-02)
  • Triangle Cliff House (images 03-04)
  • Bruno Erpicum Labacaho House (images 05-06) 
  • Holiday Cottage Como inspired by Treehouse (images 07-08) 
  • Tadao Andō Koshino House (images 09-10)

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darrencalvert:

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way.

The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve.

If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

This is so important to mention to all artists. The reason PRACTISE improves drawing ability over time is it increases the literal, technical movement in your hands and arms through /muscle memory/.

THIS IS VERY GOOD, to all the people that like my lines. I do similar but less constructed doodles like these in my sketchbook all the time, it basically just teaches your hand how to move

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Photographs of Technicolor Cities Around the World

The flat textures and aqua-hued tones of Ben Thomas’ urban landscapes wouldn’t look out of place in a graphic novel, but don’t be fooled, these are photographs, not illustrations. Thomas loves to play with perception.

Thomas typically shoots on bright, sunny days to give his photos a flat, even feel to his photos. He uses Lightroom and Photoshop to decrease the shadows as much as possible, then plays with color balance and vibrancy to create an almost neon hue. The process, which is trickier than it sounds, took a year of experimenting to get the right combination of intense color and depth.

You can also see these previous features of Ben Thomas work following the links:

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culturenlifestyle:

Oil Cityscape & Landscape Paintings by Duby Wu Lei

Hong Kong-based artist Duby Wu Lei and owner of the independent online art gallery FolkcultureGallery has been responsible for exhibiting his artwork in North America, Europe, and Australia since 2007.

As a fine art major in university, Wu Lei was able to finally support himself and endorse his expensive talent through his work.  Deeply influenced by his favorite painter Claude Monet since youth, Wu Lei loves to imitate the impressionist movement. He works with a thick brush stroke texture.

In his collection of cityscape portrait, the artist beautifully captures the famous landmarks of Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris among other cities. Conveying a contemporary approach, Wu Lei often uses the spectrum of the color black, ranging from white to the darkest shades of gray. He uses bold accent colors, particularly red to romanticize a figure, such a couple or the presence of nature. The Eiffel Tower of presents itself as Wu Lei’s biggest muse. It is one of the Old World’s most significant symbols, as well as the most romantic; since the Impressionist movement was prominent among French painters. You can find more of Wu Lei’s work in his Etsy shop.

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