A New Way to Understand Complex Perspective - A More Intuitive Approach

Theoretical frameworks may be true, but may not be the most helpful approach to understanding perspective in real life. In this video Stephen shares his own way of dealing with perspective when he draws freehand directly in ink. Extremely practical, it can be applied to any scene. This is the second video in this series.

[krysidian]

This is something I rarely see talked about and it was the reason I have such a huge blockade with perspective drawing. It always felt so rigid and limiting but this allows you to draw convincing perspective, that may not be 100% correct but looks more alive and 3D then the rigid stuff I drew before.

The simple trick, that when drawing a cylinder, the face that turns away from you and is in the back faces you more directly and therefore appears less squished, was a gamechanger for drawing more 3D looking cylinders. And this is gonna be a huge help like this as well.

[kusumkala]

Amazing Depth of Perception.
Thank you so much.

[MossyMozart]

If one must do a professional rendering, however, for an architect or interior designer or an engineer, they will need to use those linear perspective construction lines. Many of your perspective examples use distant vanishing points - ones that are fall off the paper either above and below or to the left and right. Those will be needed, too.

However, your method is great for sketches and works that don't need mechanical precision, and it takes the mystery out of perspective. Learning linear perspective can require a student to make some mental adjustments until the whole thing clicks. Your method softens that brain confusion.

And don't forget atmospheric perspective if you have not already made a video on that. Its use adds greatly to the depth of an objects =

* those that are more detailed than the less detailed, even blurry, ones in the background.
* those whose colors are brighter, more saturated than the duller, neutralized colors in the background.
* those whose contrast is sharper rather than the murkier background objects.
* those whose size is bigger than smaller objects in the background.
(I can't think of other examples right now, but readers will get the idea.)

[Art_Cath]

To learn to observe is the key! thank you for remembering the fondamental bases👍👍 and then just have to practice and practice☺☺
have a nice Chrismas ☃️❄🎅🙏

[zivauri]

I see! It's like compression, the further away. Thanks!

[lionel]

What happens to the windows on the smaller « tower » part of the building at 5:00 minutes mark, they seem all angled weirdly ?