Can You Find the 6 Perspective Errors in this Drawing?

Can you apply perspective theory to real drawings? This drawing has 6 deliberate, common perspective errors. Can you spot them and know why each is wrong? Watch as the drawing is redrawn after the errors are explained, using the correct perspective principles.

[sarahnoda]

I agree on not being able to "believe" extreme angles. I recently ran into this, measuring the angle with my pencil and transferring to my paper... I kept wanting to change it, as I felt it couldn't possibly be so extreme an angle.

[yollexart]

8:21 marker - Another, very helpful, eye opening educational moment! Thank you so much. I saw 4 out of the 6 errors, I am learning so much, so thankful you made genuine perspective videos. These are a god-send for me in my learning development in drawing. I truly appreciate your time, talent and patience in providing such great “learning to draw” content. It is tremendously helpful and I am grateful to have found your videos.

[johnellison]

Wow. When you pointed out the first one Steven, it looked so obvious. I perceived the front of building on the right to be at an angle to the front of the building on the left. I got the foreshortening on the right for the building and people, but missed the eye level. I picked up the roof angles, but missed the lights and rooves vanishing points. That was a very good tutorial video mate. Well done. Cheers.

[elisabethbroch]

Thank you so much Steven. I am new to perspective drawing, and after two of your videos. I found 4 mistakes out of 6.
I didn’t get the first one, because I thought we were looking at the corner of a street. And I imagined they had a back garden 😂
Again thank you so much, it is really helpful :)

[JW-kkdq]

Thank you so much Stephen. Just wonderful. Do you think you could do some plein air demonstrations too?

[SierraNovemberKilo]

Whoopee! I'm on the right track. I guess it must have been real hard for you to draw that odd drawing! I have difficulty with perspectives on cylinder or circular shapes- any chance you could do something similar for those shapes?

[UndaAutistica]

All but the first one (the most important, arguably :D)! I guess in the case of the perspective error, I imagined a vertical line cross-sectioning the center lightpost in front of the fence, but then the building on the left and the right wouldn't be drawn horizontal to the eye level, but angled downward to the left or right VP for the left or building, respectively? At any rate, thank you for all your perspective no-nonsense videos!

[tomyates]

Is the "angle problem", so to speak, why it's difficult to get roof lines right consistently? In practicing drawing a street scene, say, of a long, narrow street with two roof lines converging to the vanishing point, I've found that even when I dot the end point and the beginning point just to get a sense of the angle, and do a contour of one of the roof lines, it STILL seems easy to wander off the right angle. It takes practice, for sure.

[cosmodious]

I always find that on higher parts of the buildings I end up going more parallel because the extreme angles don't look right. Should we just go ahead with those extreme angles or is there a way to confirm their accuracy?

[ssilver]

This is so useful, Stephen! Thank you so much. OK, where did you get those little strips of paper! So often my vanishing point goes off my page and I have a hard time making sure everything meet up. Thank you!

[alexandraelenacristea]

I've been drawing and taking courses on drawing for a while, heck I've even complete a masters in architecture and had drawing courses in my foundational years, and still no one has ever been able to explain perspective as good as you. Thank you so much for sharing these videos with us, they are so greatly appreciated.

[codingchallenges]

2 out of 6. Sigh. I failed the test, but I learned a lot :-)

[DavidStockford]

I have a two point perspective images that I cannot get the rules to work with. The VP works to EL on one side but not the other side. Its as if there are two EL and I know that is not true. It is really bugging me because I thought from watching all your videos that I had it in my head.

[DavidStockford]

I got 4 out of 6. Missed separate eye levels and the two point perspective