Seeing analysis on other student works taught me more than a lot of tutorials on perspective ! this was great !!

Thanks so much for the critique Trent! It's really flattering that you took the time to provide me with this feedback :). I knew some things were feeling off but couldn't quite put my finger on it, so this is so incredibly helpful! It makes me all the more excited to continue learning drawing. I've since backed up a bit and am going back to work on understanding perspective more (especially things like Cone of Vision and understanding things like center VP and diagonal center VP). It's really fun how many things you can draw even when working on basic things like perspective and 3d forms! And inspiration is around us everywhere. I never thought this would be me, but I'm starting to do things like take pictures of water coolers, business signs, lamps, toy packaging, etc. Soooo many things to have fun trying to draw! :D. Thanks again for your videos and your Gumroad content. It has been so inspirational and useful for me.

This is one of the most informational perspective videos I've watched, really helpful to see you use real life examples. Thank you very much. Cheers from Wisconsin.

Thank you for the critique! You really helped me understand the positioning of the elements. Thank you! :)

Thanks for the feedback Trent, much appreciated! I’ll try out your critiques and let you know how they go. Keep it up man! -RedBeard

Also keeping both points within the page will always result in "fisheye" effect :) Most of the time that won't contribute to the "immersion" in the scene.

Hi Trent! Finding the exact centre of a wall (or plane in perspective) is quite easy. Draw a diagonal line on your wall from the top left to the bottom right and then a diagonal line from the top right to the bottom left. You should now have a wall with two diagonal lines that form a cross. The centre of that cross signifies where the centre of that wall is. If you draw a vertical line up from the centre of that cross you can easily find where the centre of your roof should be. Hope this helps.

I have NEVER gotten this before...I have taken college classes and tried my hardest, but I have hated it because no matter how much they explained it I couldn't take the theory and put it on paper...This whole thing has been a weird A-HA! moment for me. Thank you for doing these types of videos, Glad to be a new Subscriber! :)

Can I be honest Trent, your voice sounds a lot like Mordicai from Regular Show!!! That's lit!!

I'm pretty good at these from art and drafting but even I forget how to calculate distance between objects as they go toward vanish point (like rail road ties) and you should cover how to do an ellipse on these situations. I forget how to do that as well now. Where you like make a cross and aches

You could draw diagonals across the wall to find the centre

Amazing job to the artists! And amazing job from the teacher! You noticed things I would have otherwise missed, like using perspective on even the smallest of objects, the little details like that really pull a piece together, I can see that now, so thank you Artists and Thank You For Teaching

I LOVE Red Beard's style. Reminds me of Dark Cloud 2, for ps1... maybe ps2... I think. Can't remember. But it gives me this nostalgic feeling. Aces.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this and despite seeing where some of the artists here may have gone a little astray, their work was still a joy to see. My own perspective skills will be thankful. Thanks. I am going to introduce this to my son.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but In the first piece you say the doors should be the same type, and in most cases I would agree, except with what looks like a house that could’ve been in the background of Aladdin. The deferences gives the house character something rare for square box to possess, so yes the doors look a little too different from each other, (not that you said they should) but making them symbolic twins would just remove the building’s charm. But everything else I agree with.😊 On the second piece: I think the thick lines around the second piece makes it very unique- if something should be fixed that isn’t one of them, but if the artist had used thicker lines towards the viewer and thinner lines towards the vanishing points it would have been nice too,-the KZfaqr Draw with Jazza uses this technique and it works like a charm. And the last one; I totally agree- but I do Love how organic the house looks, the forest is invading civilization and I wouldn’t do anything to stop it. 😁 Over all; awesome video, I like that you helped others finding ways to improve their art. You might’ve just gotten a new subscriber. 😉

but this helps me a lot, omg i've been struggling so much to understand 2 point pespective since it's commonly used in architecture (i already understand the 1st and 3rd)

Strong critique 👍 as someone who teaches perspective, these simple and overlooked issues are extremely common

It boggles my mind that everything can be tracked back to 2 points like that

A good run down on perspective. In the learning process it is good to be disciplined over the technique, but it can start to make art work look like a technical drawing exercise if the drawer overthinks it all the time. When it becomes a feel thing is when drawing can return to thinking creatively but still look right. I like to draw a faint outline of a box that the subject could be contained within as a stating point to set the perspective, rather than nominating two points and have them dictate the look of the final result. How curves and circles behave in perspective can be a challenge in itself. I remember as a kid, Dad drawing an ocean liner from the perspective of down at water level looking up and I just understood straight off why the lines drawn that way looked right and described the angle of view I was looking from. Some times you get lucky how your brain works. I also like to play music, but that is a slog and requires the approach to learning you describe here.

I've just fallen in love with the work you put into our art education. I truly appreciate it

If you wan to find the middle of a rectangle in perspective (like a wall) you can draw two diagonal lines from left op to right bottom and from left bottom to right top. At the crossing draw a straight verttical line to find the middle of the wall.

This video is really helpful! thanks so much for uploading it. I'd love to show you one of my drawings to see how can i improve my perspective!

Pretty helpful! Can't wait for the weekend to pick up the art lesson series!

fantastic commentary and feedback. These sorts of videos are immensely valuable! Thanks for the investment in your community.

thank you so much

this video is actually helpful and made me realise some mistakes i make in my art, thank you so much!

Thanx for the advice. u sound like mordecai from "regular show" btw lol! *EDIT* Thanx for the 37 likes! That's the most I've ever gotten on any social media platform lol!

Great advice.Thank you very much.I think a lot of houses have different styles of doors on the front and the side .Mine does

To find the center of a wall, draw an X between opposing corners. This can similarly be used to determine the distance between equally spaced objects receding into the distance by using the center point of the surface to make a vertical line and make another X to find the next center and so on, dividing the surface into progressively smaller sections as it recedes.

Thank you for the video! Just starting to freshen up on my basics again!

I learned this when i was in grade 9. It's still very useful today.

This is so useful thank you!

Very helpful critiques, thanks!

Loving the Overwatch font

First video I watch of you and I love you alreadyy😍

Suggestion: invest into a better microphone setup. I think more quality sound would really boost the overall quality! Thanks for the lessons learned

I am grateful for your explanation. :)

Make sure all is in perspective Beware of patterns shrinking as they get further away This person is experienced in vidgame art!

Amazing what you see when you go back to the basics. Good job 👍

First KZfaqr I've found with my name. Been watching since like 2010

I love your positiv critique - great way of learning. Please to some more. 😊👍🇦🇺

Good video. I've got a lot to pick up on in terms of understanding perspective since this was an area that I neglected (carelessly, to be honest). I never really knew these techniques before, but now I can see the enormous benefits that they yield. I think it's extremely essential at this point in time considering I dropped out of my comic/concept art course in university as a means to to pursue an architecture degree instead. Any other areas of design besides perspective that I should look out for? I'm trying to have a balance between architecture and comic book design because this might be a future career that I secure my skills towards if my initial path fails (architecture).

Definitely learned from other's mistake

I think you missed out on a big part of what was wrong with the perspective of the image @9:08. The two vanishing points aren't on the same horizon line. One point is much higher than the other. I think that's what makes it wonky, more than the lines not linking up on the point. Although it doesn't help either. Also a big help for finding the centre of a plane is drawing an X between the corners of the plane. You seem to leave it up to intuition(@11:43), but but people who starts learning perspective wouldn't be able to do that. You say that the width of the halves should be the same but that's not really true since one half is more shortened by perspective.

o0hhh yeahh! awesome video thank you for sharing 🤙🔥

Great feedback and instruction

Great video. I'm currently focusing on character drawing involving foreshortening and perspective is proving to be really tough to get right. Even the steps of boxing it out I get wrong and end up with "twisted metal" or one of those illusion drawings haha.

Awesome video and useful pieces of information. Thanks for your work! :)

Like this video, a good way to teach perspective drawing.

Thank you Trent !

Very helpful and informative. 👌🙌

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I think I may finally get it!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Thank you!

Have you tried the Lazy Nezumi Pro Perspective tool? It's really awesome and makes figuring out your perspective much easier!

The thing perspective lines don't tell you is how wide things should be - things like doors and windows. If you want to get this right, you need to work out what angle you are looking at the building from, then use the COS of that angle to scale from the known vertical size to the wanted horizontal size. I'm assuming that directly facing you is zero degrees.

Thank you, this is so helpful!

Good job, thank you. Keep the valuable content, you are doing great!

Great teaching style , very helpful techniques 👍

I'm just learning the very basics of perspective, and seeing so many mistakes in works that initially looked passable has me feeling doomed lmao

Brilliant crit. Such a great tutor :)

Wow I really love this video I learned alot

One of my favourite videos!!

Also in the first picture the vanishing points are too close to each others. That makes it look like a really wide FoV image taken very close to the building. It would look more natural if the vanishing points were further apart, so that it would look like a more normal FoV picture taken from a reasonable distance.

I wish there was a good android app that focused primarily on perspective drawing. I think I found one within a drawing app but there were difficulties in using it making it time consuming.

Are you familiar with using an X to find the center point of a flat plane in perspective?

Awesome vid!

Dont know why I got suggested this video. But I'm thankful! great vid!

Maybe you could make a video on how to properly apply shadows, their direction and how to figure out how long they should be with perspective. I remember when I got that as a homework, our teacher gave us a shortcut (she told us it was one, she didn't hide that fact. She's awesome) but I didn't like that or how it looked, so I went through the struggle of figuring out how to make the shadows myself. Spare others from doing that, because that stressed me out at that age xD

GENIUS🔥🔥🔥

Hi Trent. Can you do a tutorial on Distortion of Perspective?

Very good teaching.

very informative!

Thanks

i watched all the tutorials related to assistant tool and understand every concept of it... i just can't able to draw in vanishing line because when i try to draw, it automaticaly draw perpendicular line regarding what is selected in parallel rulers

I've heard this idea from Ethan van Sciver in one of his video that with 2 point perspective that those vanishing points should be viewed as being connected by string, or string theory as he called it. Meaning that if you ( for example) move one of the perspective points closer to the center of the screen the other point should have opposite reaction ( being farther from the center), and to avoid having both vanishing points at the edges of the page, cause it would make the perspective look weird. meaning that one of those if not both should be imagined off page. I might have missunderstood something since English isnt my first language, but what are your thougths on this Trent?

3rd one: Gotta disagree with the roof having to be the center of building. Asymetric roof designs do exists (Saltbox roof for example), so unless the artist was going for a symetric roof, no mistake there. Personally I do like some asymetry thrown into drawings (if done intentionally), they can add a litte bit more character (for the lack of a better word) than a perfectly symetric design.

Chow baby oh yeah!

Not sure if you covered it or not but they don't seem to be following the 60% rule either. You mark a 60% of the paper (a square in the middle of the paper) and keep your drawling within that. That prevents the stretching of the structures.

The question is I so want to become a bg artist, storyboard artist etc but I dont know where to start on my own. Can you please give me some ideas like where to start , which things to learn and how to progress. Like I know I need to learn perspective closely but I am not clear about other things that how anatomy characters and other stuff play a role and how could I use these things. I basically study in an art school but they dont teach any important stuff so I am on my own. Suggest me any course or books or whatever.

at 6:00 minutes so to create a "Perfect" create in this example you want us to use Both Banishing Points. hmm... okay i think i get it but can't really type out. since i can't explain very well probably means i don't understand it fully which is ok. but lets make my head Spin a little bit. in a Nutshell - you want us as and Artist to pick Vanishing Points and make Sure Lines Are Attach to that Vanishing Point in a Example: Lets say you have Doors in the Same Directions but With Diffrent Sizes. well To do that you will need 1 Vanishing Point and Tilt it to a Direction - (Upwards for the Example). you want 2 Doors So First Decalre The Spot (make a Wall). (aka Draw a Straight Line going from that Vanishing Point to the end of the Canvas for this Example :P). now make Another Line Thats Higher (or Lower) than the Other Vanishing Point - This will Declare the Countours of The Wall ---- okay now Simply Attach the Walls to each Corner OR you could be a little bit Adventurist and Add Another Vanishing Point Above the walls and Attach all Walls to that Vanishing Point (But since im too noob i will take the Safe Route and Simply Attach the Lines to the Walls like in this Drawing of the video XD). incase you are Feeling Adventurist: First Declare the 90 Degree Line aka the End of the Wall - Draw a Straight from the wall to the end of the Canvas (Better to make the Vanishing Point end top other wise the wall will look upside down). now Draw a Vanishing point at the Height of the Clouds (aka Pick a Random Spot that withing that 90 Angle that's Will Define the Sky Level). now attach the walls to that Vanishing Point Which i will call Sky Vanishing Point. now you have some Wonky looking walls :P --- okay back to Adding the 2 Doors. Lets Start with the Countours of the Doors First Declare the Height of the Windows from the Floor. now Connect that to the Vanishing Point of the Walls (not the Sky not yet anyways :P) now Draclare the Height of the Window Draw and Connect that to the Vanishing Point. now if you are Done you can Connect the Rest. but if you Feeling Adventurist You guess it we have to connect those 2 to the Vanishing Point of the Sky. i have no Idea if im Correct or wrong im just Imagine it inside my head. hopefully it looks Good on paper LUL if it does Yay if it doesn't hmmm guess that means i didn't understand it fully yet.

Just found your channel. You're good critiquer. I subscribed and will check your webpage out.

a fantastic video

rly helpful

What' your thoughts on doodles/rough sketches not having perspective? For my main drawings I use them but for fast stuff I kinda just wing it, and of course looks terrible but they really just thumbnails or icons for a grander vision. ( I guess you'll say something on the lines of try to slowly incorporate ?)

Hey man, you deserved my sub click.

Hey! I am a beginnner in digital art and in my mind ideas for paintings are exploding but I have one issue i hang on every single time I draw: I am always able to do a pretty sketch but after that I kind of struggle and I am starting feeling sad about how it turns out. I started to do little workouts with different textures and gemoetries a couple of weeks ago, but I feel like nothing has changed so far. Does someone have any ideas how to improve this? Ît would be really helpful :D Sorry for my bad English skills I am just a 16 year old European ^^

Nice video!!!

how do u do perfect lines that arent horizontal or vertical?

The door would only allow dwarves to enter, they wouldn’t want to because they couldn’t see out of the windows!

Do you ever just wing it when doing perspective or do you always use a ruler?

Okay, this is something that has always bothered me. In regards to the first critique, *how* did you determine what the spacing should be between those planks on the roof? I get that it should narrow towards the vanishing point, but *how much*? What's the pattern? Should there be a pattern?

The structure @1:00 point looks like it could be either a building with a flat roof or a pyramidal roof.

how to determine 'the correct' space between vanishing points in 2PP? Is it completely up to us as long as its aesthetically good looking (BY INTUITION)? or there're some rules?

In the first drawing, do you know if there is any way to actually calculate the distances of the vertical lines (which get shorter as you get closer to the vanishing point)?

How do you do that straight line by clicking each point

How do you do the math on spacing of those Vegas? You said the first guy spaced out his vegas evenly

Hey Trent, will you be continuing your texturing series?

I cant find your other perspective tutorials can you help me please

You are hella nice

What drawing tool is he using in Photoshop? Is there a link to instruction video somewhere?