Easy Perspective Drawing Tutorial: Draw Backgrounds without Rules

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Learn how to trust your gut and your brain instead of rules when drawing backgrounds and environments. It will help make your illustrations more organic.
These are the two books I recommend for perspective in comics.
Vanishing Point - This one is a little easier to read and applies all knowledge towards comics.
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Complete Guide - This one is very technical and advanced. It's not something you'd want to read, more skim to know what is possible. It's a great reference book on how to correctly figure out size, complex and irregular shapes, and just saving your brain when it comes to hard perspective.
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Here's my video with the complex technique for figuring out size.
• How to use Perspective...
I got nothing against learning all the rules and methods of perspective. I've learned them, they are super helpful to know. Knowing them will allow you to dig yourself out of a hole when your drawing looks like poo.
But I hardly ever use those techniques in my day-to-day drawing. Granted I have a more loose, whatever style, but I think this can still be applied to more technical "crafticians", at least in the early stages of their drawings.
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@godofgames5432 3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, this guy makes the best content for WEBTOON creators. Thanks for it, Walter, and rock on!

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate that!

@karellengkong1918 3 жыл бұрын

Walter, i just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your content, your videos has helped me with art and really inspires me with webtoon.i hope you realize how much these videos help and how much i appreciate you making these videos to help us despite you probably being busy as well. Thank you so much :D

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind comment. I am really happy the videos are helping so much.

@leedleleedleleedle8660 3 жыл бұрын

*aggressively saves video* ✨👄✨ 📝 I needed this video so much for a redo episode I’m planning for the beginning of my comic. Walter, thank yooOoUuUu.

@jayaphurailatpam2480 3 жыл бұрын

No way! No FREAKING WAY!!!! I literally was just practicing perspective and was frustrated! You read my miindd!!! Thank you so so much!!

@antonioa3078 3 жыл бұрын

Finally created my Webtoon after binging your videos, they helped alot both with tips, inspiration, and drive - good luck for every other creator in the comments

@fatimahfaisal2734 3 жыл бұрын

What's your webtoon name? I wanna read it plss

@antonioa3078 3 жыл бұрын

@@fatimahfaisal2734 *World Fragments* , its a typical shonen-action story. ♤

@fatimahfaisal2734 3 жыл бұрын

@@antonioa3078 thank youuu I'll go read it now!!

@triangle8441 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! I'll check out your webtoon!

@LeoArmada 3 жыл бұрын

My 3rd eye SHALL COME forth!

@chrissyrey3 3 жыл бұрын

I needed this, thank you. I swear your are a real Jedi master cause you always seem to post what we are struggling with. May the force be with with you Master 😆 keep up the great work and keep the Ghost Bats chaos comin!

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Hah, thanks!

@r.s.j.creations3943 3 жыл бұрын

Perspective is such a pain but hearing you breaking it down makes me feel better about it. I'll definitely keep your tips in mind when drawing panels.

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Hope they help!

@dorothy.j 3 жыл бұрын

Its the right time u shared this video. Thanks

@Possumbreath 3 жыл бұрын

A ton of people I know are getting clip since it's on sale and I've been pointing them at your vids

@otomaru2344 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Like always 💜 thanks Walter

@estela5973 2 жыл бұрын

it really helped me, thank you!!

@augustawickmanart 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video! This was really helpful and I will for sure be using some of these tips! :D

@penguinlover2274 3 жыл бұрын

This video is very cool, thank you !

@halululi634 3 жыл бұрын

I really need this specially at backgrounds, really helps a lot sir✨

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

@Meekailonyt 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@TheTurnturnturn 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Walter, once again you are bailing us out and saving us a lot of time and energy! Can you do a video about shadows at some point? That is always the hardest thing for me to wrap my head around. Thank you!

@emmypax5084 3 жыл бұрын

Another great vid, Walter! In terms of stuff I would like to see explored regarding perspective, I think you made a vid once where you talked about shifting the perspective in a panel as you scrolled down it, since that's something that's more likely to be possible/necessary in Webtoon. I would love to hear you revisit that again and talk about changing your perspective/camera angle as you transition through a long shot and how to do it so it feels right. Keep up the awesome series!

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, that could be a cool video...I'd have to figure out how to describe that, because a lot of it for me is kinda going with my gut, testing until it looks right.

@RandyRivers2 3 жыл бұрын

Another tip I've learned about scaling with perspective and horizon lines is that if an element intersects with the horizon line, that element will always be on the horizon line no matter how far or close that thing is from the "camera". If we use Walter's example with the guy in the office, his eyes should always be intersecting with the horizon line if we drew him further into the background or closer to the foreground, assuming that the we did NOT move the horizon line.

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that is a super helpful trick for drawing scenes with bigger areas and characters far apart.

@Nikke283 3 жыл бұрын

On the beginning of the video i was like: Mention your backround in this video, go ! And then you actually did!!:) Through I actually know perspektive (at least in the very most times) I totally enjoyed and agreed here. If I get lost in perspective its: when a room is overly complicated and when i do etablishing shots from above (more than one vanishing point, ya know) Also I´m somewhat lazy and do vertical lines often without a ruler ( digital and analog) because I somehow think/feel I they are 90° but Im often kinda wrong :D.

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Same. I get less and less picky with perspective the more I draw. If it looks like a room and looks like people are standing on the floor, it's good enough for me :-)

@Nikke283 3 жыл бұрын

@@walterostlie Of course.solong the picture does it job everything is pretty fine.

@hectora.3220 3 жыл бұрын

Another good video

@yasaamoin4882 3 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to more tutorials on this. I would really appreciate tips on how to practice drawing perspective where we don't need to draw all those geometric lines connecting to the vanishing point.

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

I'll see what I can do.

@yasaamoin4882 3 жыл бұрын

@@walterostlie Thank you so much, Walter!

@ethansbrewerton 3 жыл бұрын

Praise be to the Box! 🙌⬛🙏

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

All will kneel...or sit and draw boxes.

@ethansbrewerton 3 жыл бұрын

@@walterostlie or stand, really the box gods aren't that picky 😂

@Sammy_47 3 жыл бұрын

Geez man, this was super super helpful; I love all your tutorials. You make it so easy. I have 2 questions though: 1. When you're drawing buildings and such, how do you use perspective to add the character so they look like they're in the scene? Do you go by the height of the doors and/or windows? 2. For Patreon, does the 2nd level offer suggestions and/or reviews on comic work? It says you will critique artwork and portfolio; would you consider comic pages (not all of them) too?

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can take a look at comic pages also. I consider that portfolio stuff. Prolly no more than 10 pages and focused on art and storytelling. So with drawing characters in scenes, of course you want to do what works best for you. For me, I like to draw the characters in the poses, compositions, and camera angle I want, then I plan the background around them, using the character's height to figure out the size of doors, windows, etc. The background is usually secondary to the characters for me. Unless it's an establishing shot and the environment is the star of the panel.

@Sammy_47 3 жыл бұрын

@@walterostlie I think an establishing shot is what I'm trying to explain; since I'm new to this (my focus has always been telling the story), I don't have that many establishing shots. I also draw the character first then the environment depending on the scene; it's easier for me that way. However, sometimes when I do that the scene doesn't look right; the background looks weird, but it's difficult to explain without visuals 🙂

@taeseanpinn7462 2 жыл бұрын

can you make a tutorial on how to draw rotated objects in perspective

@LuisGodoyIIArt 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty good vid

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@damsand8033 3 жыл бұрын

Now that I think about it I dont really work on perspective... Imma have to practice that more 😅

@litzitizoc8206 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video as always, I never miss one of your videos. I really appreciate you sharing your tips to us. I been working on my comic and I have in mind everything you told us. I have one little problem. My lines looks too pixelated, I had try everything to fix it, the resolution the anti-lasing, the size of brush, ect, I'm using the size you recommend, so I was wondering if you can give me a little tip of this? I have an iPad Pro so maybe it's just the quality of it hahah,I'm sorry to bother you with this, And thanks for everything.

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Are you using the 800px wide? I think that is what I said because that is the minimum you need for webtoon. So here's the trick and it may be a little confusing. Your ipad may have a resolution of 2000px wide, so your canvas size of 800px wide will only take up less than half of the screen. 800px canvas across a 2000px screen. If your canvas was 2000px, it would take up your entire screen. Make sense? Okay, so if you zoom in on your 800px canvas, you are actually over-zooming pass 100%. If you zoom in on your 800px canvas until it filled up your screen, you'd actually be over 200% zoom. That is going to look pixelated. Anytime you zoom in over 100% it will look pixelated, regardless of canvas size. However, if you work at 800px, you don't have to zoom in, because you are working at the resolution that readers will see. However, I know it is just natural to want to "zoom in" when you're drawing. You just don't need to. However, if you'd rather be able to zoom in, use a larger canvas size like 2000px wide. Hope that made sense.

@litzitizoc8206 3 жыл бұрын

@@walterostlie ooo I see, I was using 1900 width and 16000 height. I saw it in one of your videos. it does make sense! Thank you thank you so much for sharing, it really helps and thanks for your time, I will look foword to your next videos!! :) have a wonderful day

@LaNoir. 3 жыл бұрын

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@arteva309 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to ask, I feel confident in sketching the anatomy of my characters in traditional art but I find it really hard to draw anatomy on digital art. Is there a way to this😐?

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Drawing digitally takes a little getting used to. The difference in drawing surface texture is a little weird, digital devices tend to be slicker than traditional paper. There are some screen protectors or different pen tips that can help mimic the friction of paper. Also you may just need to find the right pen/pencil brush setting for your digital setup. Try different opacity and brush sizes, try messing around with pressure sensitivity to try to mimic what you're used to in the real world. I scanned my traditional artwork, or you can take a picture, then I started drawing test digital lines next to my traditional lines, I kept messing with brush settings until I was able to closely match my traditional lines.

@Nikke283 3 жыл бұрын

Im not sure If @Walter Ostlie solve the Problem (of course it everything right he say) but what I observed: If I sketch my figure digitally i zoom out. When I start do my final sketch/ PencilInk I tend to zoom in (to get better lines, adding details and features etc) but here I get a bit "lost in proportion" since I can`t see the whole figure. Is this maybe your case too? If it is like this- I haven`t found a real way to fix. Maybe a bigger sceentablet might solve this problem(but who can affort?) For me(just for me) the easiest way to solve is to draw on paper a better sketch and just scan (or taking a picture with the cell) the sketch to ink it. (if it is another Problem, just ignore my babbling;)

@arteva309 3 жыл бұрын

Nique Oelkers yes! That's totally my case as, I draw on an old version tablet and with my finger because I can't really afford a new one or a stylus at the moment. I too think that tracing the sketches from traditional art is a way. I hope there can be more ways too.

@Nikke283 3 жыл бұрын

@@arteva309 Mine is also small (compared to what other people have) but Im totally fine to have it. You could try one bigger but with no display on it. (they are not cheap but much more affordable than pendisplays. I had a big one without display at work (but 20 years ago) and it worked ok (at least better than standard size tablets. They work mostly with usb so you could have both tablets on, while working switching between When you find out it doesn`t work , you can give it back to the store. If you figure another way I would be happy if you can share! Cheers from Germany

@arteva309 3 жыл бұрын

Nique Oelkers Thank you really much for this idea, I would surely let you know if I get another way for this too😊

@triangle8441 3 жыл бұрын

I think what I have the most trouble with when it comes to laying out panels is the scale of objects, buildings, and characters compared to one another. My characters are all supposed to be a certain height, but it's difficult to transfer that into every scene. Sometimes the scale feels really off. Is there a trick to help with this?

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

You sorta have to pick an element to be the "Truth" for a particular panel. Maybe the main character in the panel, and base everything off that one character. draw lines from the top of that characters head to other points in the panel and that will be the character's height translated. I'll try to do a video about it soon.

@overlordsea1067 3 жыл бұрын

Hello , just like to ask if it is ok to update my episode every 2 weeks in webtoon originals ? Anyways thanks for your content , it really help alot of people . So thank you so much again !

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Yea, nothing wrong with updating every 2 weeks. Do what works best for your life schedule. Just try to stay consistent, but don't feel bad if you have to skip an update.

@nootnootman6353 3 жыл бұрын

noot noot (slightly vague question) What do you do after finishing a webcomic series?

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Treat yourself to some ice cream? You can always turn it into a book and run a kickstarter to raise money to print it. Then you can go to convention or sell them online. You can also find an agent or manager to try to sell your story to someone for movies/tv/etc. And then you start another webtoon if you had fun with the first one and want to do it again.

@nootnootman6353 3 жыл бұрын

@@walterostlie noot noot Thank you

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can do that.

@JuwariyahWaddy 3 жыл бұрын

You only do critiques of your patrons webtoons?

@karellengkong1918 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you will be critiqued thoroughly if you be a patron for a month on the highest level i think.

@damsand8033 3 жыл бұрын

Their is a free way to get critiqued but his waiting list is full rn. Just gotta wait till he opens it again. Patreon is for the people who dont want to wait as long.

@JuwariyahWaddy 3 жыл бұрын

@@damsand8033 ok thanks

@JuwariyahWaddy 3 жыл бұрын

@@karellengkong1918 oh ok

@JuwariyahWaddy 3 жыл бұрын

@@damsand8033 how do I get in the list though

@ozymandias4762 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing ! I'm glad to know someone whom I can "actually" learn from!! When is your $10 membership getting a free slot? >~

@walterostlie 3 жыл бұрын

I had a big influx of creators jump into that tier this month, so I put it on pause while I get through them. I hope to open it back up next month. I'll be sure to mention it when I do, in a video or in my community posts.