yeah, i was just thinking that i sort of prefer the look of the top one! obviously not if the goal was this specific technique, but I love the way it looks!

Yep! The goal should always be to know the rules, so that you can choose to break them on purpose, instead of doing it by mistake.

I agree. The bottom is confusing and kinda ugly, but I love the top

Its bc the POV is floating high up. Normally, we see streets and buildings from the group, so the POV is lower and so the angles would be different as well.

For sure! It is important to remember though that learning the basics first is the way to learn styles after!

It's not a strategy. it's a technique

No its a tactic

Yes bahi

No its a procedure

Lmfao

bro....

It's probably fine... only an art teacher or snobby person would notice or even care.. most people actually like the look of the TOP drawing. They like it more where it's "incorrect" Just read some comments. Nearly all artists are the hardest on our own art....

My mom told me about this early. Probably before i was even in school. Looking back on my childhood artwork i was probably at the level of a pretty ok adult professional artist before first grade. Its a different world now and im so glad people can access information like this online. There are probably so many more kids able to be at the level i was because of the ability to teach theirselves with videos like this.

You can still achieve that look by changing the perspective to a bird's-eye view, you just need to elevate the horizon line and vanishing point. The higher you set those, the more the roofs of those buildings will be visible. I really recommend to watch a few videos on that topic, it's really cool 😊

Uhhh no, theres another and he doesn’t even use rulers

Perhaps draw them first as just rectangular blocks, and then draw the shaoe you want on the end of the block and slice off the unneeded parts of them so they become triangular, if that makes any sense? I'd imagine that might be easier than just going straight at it

@@ursamajo.r Yep thanks, I looked up some tutorials on it and that’s one of the methods that they went over xD

​@@ursamajo.ryep, came here to comment that. Works as a method with any shape (conical, cylindrical, round, etc) and all perspective types (2pt, iso, etc).

You can always remember that (most) triangle roofs align with the center of the face they occupy. You can draw in a vertical line for yourself that exactly cuts the building face in half, then play with the angle of the roof depending on how far up or down that line you connect the point of the roof.

Once you have an eye line and vertical then the hard bit is done. As big things are made up of smaller things, that are made up with smaller things. All the lines follow the guides. Get any book on perspective, read it, practice it a few times and it will come. And don't practice drawing from imagination or use rulers, draw from reality in freehand, you won't get skilled if you don't aspire for skill.

@@watercolourmark I didn't say that I didn't figure out how to do it , there are plenty of vids on the subject , my point was that that is the hard part , and generally that is what people when learning would have a harder time with ,because I did and I noticed that it's not the outside lines like the tops or bottom of buildings , because those just have to be parallel to or follow the temp guide lines for the vanishing point it's the things between those two that have to line up with each other while each has its own vanishing point lines , and with whatever other features on the faces of those buildings. For example doors lining up with windows and those with balconies , or other things that are not square or rectangular., like gazebos over windows that have oval lines etc and all have to line up with everything else and follow the vanishing point guidelines ..that is the hard part ,imo. In case OP would like to make a video on the subject .. and thank you for your points .

@@metaljacket866 - I think you may be overthinking it. Once your basic eyeline and perspective guides are in place the rest should be night following day. The most complex shapes can be broken down, an arc is just a rounded square. Everything can be broken into boxes and squares, that can be broken into circles and triangles or more squares. Block all those big shapes in and simplify, then just find the smaller shapes within the bigger. It is like in the example in the video. A ground plane has been added, but no eye line. You need that to converge or diverge. This makes it harder. And making stuff up makes it harder. Where should people's heads be? We can work it out but the lack of an EL makes it harder. I actually think it isn't a good example in perspective and is very misleading. It is creating the sort of problems you are talking about by not understanding what perspective actually is. It's you, your height, your stereo vision. Perspective isn't a vanishing point in the distance. Perspective is the viewpoint that you hold, it is an internal thing and not an external thing. As without you then we don't have perspective.

@@watercolourmark ok , I'm pretty sure I got what you're saying . When I doodle or sketch freehand a city scape for example without putting too much thinking into it I have no issues with it because I can readjust the lines and angle until that feature flows with the rest in each building , and then each building then flows with every other building or object in the scene...no problem there But when I started watching these how to videos I wanted to learn the rules of it like someone that is drafting or constructing a building to specs but from an angle with clean straight lines like some artists do in these videos , that's when I saw that video of that vanishing point grid , and that's when everything started getting complicated in my head ... :) I think I'll just stick to sketching the I've always done it , , Oh I remember why I started looking into this , I wanted to understand the rules on paper , so that I can eventually learn to draw on a computer screen and create digital scenes .. that's what it was .... And thank you again for taking the time to explain everything so clearly. Cheers!

I hear ya on that I always have trouble with it lol especially on landscapes!!

Ships on a horizon is not perspective.

@@watercolourmark They are, in fact. This is demonstrable by the fact that you zoom in on a ship which is “over” the horizon by using binoculars or a telescope in the right conditions. Well documented phenomenon. This would be impossible if they were “hidden behind a curve.”

@@Jollygreengeocentric - What has that got to do with perspective? When you are on a wide view everything is hyper-perspective. With a zoomed (Tele) view, especially on the horizon, everything is flattened. The distance between the nearest point and furthest is nuance. Practically zero perspective. This is 101 perspective.

@@watercolourmark The ship gets smaller the further away it moves.. this is perspective. It has everything to do with perspective.

@@Jollygreengeocentric - Yes, a ship moves away from you in perspective, if you follow and plot that movement then that has everything to do with perspective. But you are changing the goal posts here. You stated that a ship looks a certain way on the horizon when zoomed in and this is due to perspective, when that has nothing to do with perspective. You are wrong on that. Maybe you are confusing perspective with aerial perspective or atmosphere distortion.

You spent 2 months learning 1 point perspective!? And you didn't learn 2 point perspective, multipoint perspective or curvilinear!? Wow, your teacher needs to be shot. I could teach you more than that in an hour.

Yes, that... every 10 year old kid knows this.

@@corneilcorneil is there a problem, it’s just a fun memory i have. the way you said it is very weird.

@@cheriewerie. The way YOU SEE my answer is weird.

@@corneilcorneil i’m sorry, since i’ve seen tons and tons of hate comments with periods and “…” i’ve just associated them with “omg duh everyone knows that” or “omg are they dumb??” and i’m not saying it’s bad to use proper grammar, you just don’t see a lot of comments using it. and depending on what they’re saying i sometimes mistake it as an insult or something that intends a rude thing. so yes i did take it the wrong way and i’m sorry

@@cheriewerie. What is going on with people using "omg"? Do they think it is "cool" or something?