This is really making me realise how terrible the art classes I took in my first few years of high school were. Nothing about perspective, nothing about actual colour theory, nothing about proper draftsmanship, just 'here's a colour wheel now draw a tree now here come up with a pattern, slice your fingers off carving it into a piece of plywood and break your arms trying to use our ancient printing press to print it in ink that's so old it doesn't transfer 75% of the time, have fun kids'

"Notice i'm drawing through this prism. this is called drawing through." incredible

I'm a middle school art teacher and you have given me lots of ideas. Thanks.

Oh my god…his lines in the first exercise. They aren’t perfect? They aren’t perfectly straight like lines “should” be?? Finally! My self doubt and perfectionism will, hopefully, slowly crumble now that I see an amazing artist like this man doesn’t always make a perfect straight line. Now hopefully I won’t hate myself when trying to draw straight lines. Time to get some line confidence baby!

My first college degree in 1974 was Commercial Art, now known as Graphic Art. I went to work in the Graphics Dept of Bechtel Corporation. The company had a Drafting Training Program and they offered me a chance to take it. We had our own class room sectioned off from the main engineering departments. It was set up as a full-time paid apprenticeship, working a regular 40 hour week. Over the course of three months we learned all aspects of drafting and design, electrical, mechanical, architecture. We graduated with certification in Drafting/Design. I loved it so much I went back to college taking night classes and got my second degree in 1980 in Electrical Mechanical Drafting Design. In those years everything was done 'on the board' (drafting board) with the physical drawing instruments. There were no computers. It was similar to my art training, tools and materials. I'm 71 and my favorite subject is still perspective. For me the two disciplines of art and mechanical drawing/drafting are interwoven, almost one and the same. My favorite pastime is sketching objects and compositions in orthographic and isometric views. It is very relaxing and my form of doodling. 😊

Thanks for starting with a couple of basic exercises. I've been intimidated with starting to draw but those exercises are simple ways to improve penmanship and you dont have much expectation of a good outcome. Really helpful.

Ah dude, the fact that you advice people to make straight lines and circle for practise -before- drawing, is everything. I learned it in Graphic school as well, never forgot it.

If you have Procreate (iPad app), there’s an option to set and change your perspective to anything you want. Then you can see all those guidelines (can make them brighter/darker). There’s also a helper option that snaps the line to your perspective as you draw. This is so helpful in learning how to draw in perspective. I’m still learning, but being able to draw exactly proportional boxes as a frame for a character is really handy. I’m at a stage where my mind almost got the whole light/shadow thing figured out, but I want to break out of single-perspective mode so that my characters pop out of the painting and there’s good overall depth.

I watched your playlist in 2021 when I started studying art fundamentals and spent the last two years studying. Thank you very much, thanks to you and other artists like you, I improved my technique =DD

i've been through all of your videos and i gotta say that you've the most beautiful and useful chanel on this red world, u deserve more views than u do now, thanks a lot for your effort cuz you letterally steped up my drawing skills with those lil advices, all the love and respect for you

Here to try and learn how to draw fantasy landscapes. I learned perspective back then, but I think I'm getting things wrong, so I decide to relearn stuff. Wish me luck and good luck guys!

Thanks for these tutorials. I'm currently trawling through How to Draw myself, and these videos help a lot. I feel like some stuff isn't very thoroughly explained, or maybe it just doesn't click with me. Either way, good videos!

I think a lot of art instruction leaves out the basics in the belief that everyone is on the same level. Thank you for this video.

Just now found this channel, but already it seems f*ckin' awesome! Hoping it will stay around

Hey dude, I was wondering "this video thumbnail, it's from THE book" so you are an actual person that proves that Scott's books are working ! This is really great.

Having just started out in the art world and having watched many a tutorial which I struggled to understand and with just one viewing of your tutorial I have learnt so much and look forward to putting it to practice. Thank you so much for your approach to teaching the likes like myself. Keep safe

Quality content! When I was in school we studied Scott Robertson's book on perspective. This gives me a lot of good memories and is a great refresher!!

I often practice exercise 1 and 3 (lines, circles, and curves). But I've never heard of exercise 2: texturing. It looks like a fun and productive exercise I'll love to try. Thanks for the video series on perspective. It was super helpful ✨👍💕

Ive been drawing animals and architectural things since 4, im now 15, and everywhere i go, people would always compliment! But, the best fact is, when i heard that you have a drawing position, that really stuck to me, because i find it lets you draw angles verry verry well, and i though that was something all artist have. My angle of drawing and writing is around 150° to about 215° thankyou, but this is because ive been drawing almost every day since i was 4, and always watch my surpundings observing how things are in terms of angles. Thankyou! Their is also nothing called armature or pro in art, because every artis has a different style, so when someone says ypur a noob, that just says ypu domt have enough experience, or they just can figure out ypu have a style, but that is also why they cant draw anybetter than you, they got no style at all.

I don't understand how this box in 2 perspective is difeerent than 3 persepctive, beside the size

Dropped art for a few years because learning perspective was hard and I had a breakdown, convinced I'll never get good. Now I'm back and trying again

I've been an artist all my life but never took an art class or studied art in anyway - I always just went pencil to paper and drew what I saw in my mind - really cool to see you break down perspective like this and understand what my brain must be thinking and understanding subconsciously when I've been drawing all this time

I love how you explain a lot of information in a short time, this is very helpful

This is probably the most concise explanation I've come across for perspective so far. Thank you. Also thanks for the book references as well. Looking to update my knowledge, these books seem right up my alley.

Awesome man, people keep telling me to use a ruler but i prefer free hand just like u did. 😁👍🏼

I'm still learning about perspective, a proper lineart and textures so thanks for this video!

This is singlehandedly the most useful channel

Thank you, thumbs way up, subbed with notifications. I need to absorb what I can, drawing challenges my understanding a lot and can be frustrating. But I enjoy sketching as it tends to be like a mind-therapy.

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track but at first I couldn't really see the difference between 2 point and 3 point perspective.. But I think I understand the difference now that I think about it a different way. It could be viewed like a three story house. The first/top floor (1 point) can be looked at by itself. The second floor is almost directly in front of you.. You don't really need to look to see it. The third floor(3 point) is like looking at the basement without seeing the other floors; it's almost like seeing through the ground. Now that I've looked at what I've written it looks like complete rubbish.. But it's hard to put my thoughts into words.

Great video, just some feedback on the initial exercises. It might be worth talking a bit more about how to move your body/arm to draw straight lines. A beginner might practice using just their wrist, and get either frustrated or develop an inferior habit. The texture exercise is something I haven't seen before, and it would be nice to learn a bit more about the kinds of techniques you can use to render a texture. Excited to try it out though and see for myself all the same.

I really love this channel, thank you very much for giving us all this for free. you're great

Great tutorials James. Mucho appreciated. Supporting you on Patreon already. More power to your elbow sir!

Yooooo, I watched your videos and it's amazing! You sir inspire me to keep pushing my practice on art. Keep on doing what you're doing. More power to you and your channel.

4:39 Something I feel never gets mentioned: This object is NOT a box (i.e. the angles at the corners are not all 90 degrees). I don’t know if that omission is intentional or not, but I think it’s incredibly important to realize.

jesus christ you just started off and already got me readying paper and just fuckin relearning drawing, TY

i like the music in the background

This video really gives me a direction for practice. Thanks for the upload

4 years man why I only see this channel this year so upset.

Your channel is really awesome ! Learn so much, never get bored.

Found your video just now. It helped me a lot! (also, I ordered the book - thanks for this amazing recommendation)

You're videos are a goldmine for architect students like me!

i came back to this video several times ... THANK YOU JAMES

What I learned here is to copy paste an existing form at the bottom and rotate 190 degrees to put on the top of hl for faster productivity when doing some projects

I took the task to watch all the videos you uploaded on your channel!!!

Just took my first class of gesture/figure drawing for animation, and while my gesture drawings are actually quite good, my perspective is ridiculously bad 😭 so yep here I am

You should definitely refer all of your fans and students to the website DrawABox, they basically teach all the same exercises and theories you're trying to teach but in much more depth. Great video by the way!

this is 10x more helpful than what I was taught at school

WOW wow WOW!! MUCH appreciated and Thank YOU from Cape Town. So Effective.

thanks man i love a lot your tutorials are very helpful thank you keep up the great work

Is it possible to apply perspective to actually tilting objects? I already know how to make a cube in 1, 2 ,3 perspective but after that I'm lost. It would be universally helpful knowing in what way lines will go when the cube is in that very position.

Waaaooo you are a master drawing i see almost all you video. I love how you use perspective for everything. Thanks for this tutorial im a nood for now

Pretty much everytime I do a perspective grid the third VP would be way above or below the canvas (e.g. a simple shot of a room where you can't have extreme perspective but you need three VPs). So how do you make that accurate without adding a second piece of paper etc.? Is there a good way to calculate it? Or would you just eyeball it?

Did you learn that exercise from Peter Han? I saw him recently do the same thing at Lightbox

i didn't realise i was doing 1, 2, 3 point perspective but i am. i also use the horizon and beyond. like my height n stuff. looking at things from bottom up or opposite.

This is more than a perspective video Many thanks

Love the instruction. Also, love the shirt.

Moderndayjames, these tutorials are fantastic. Is that your music in the background? I really like that song (I'd buy it!).

Nice job though would have been more helpful if we saw the third point and heard how it is useful. I've used the other two but three point I haven't yet used. Before watching this I had wanted to make a similar video about exercises and still might while trying not to copy though only the line and circles were similar in what I was going to do. Keep up the good work.

also gold.. wow man your content is so valuable.. Im redrawing every video.. so helpful!

Love your work G

How do you traditionally deal with setting up the COV to reduce distortion in your perspective grids ? Is it best to buy ellipse or circle templates for this or should you try eye balling it till you get better ? Scott's book covers how to set it up but it seems a little technical to do traditionally.

this video helped me a lot as i go along my studies

Thank you very much. Hugely appreciated.

Great videos !! thank you for sharing and keeping us improving !! :D

Nice video,can you make a video of your set up and how you write,it really is looking cool

Keep drawing James!

I’ve watched tons of video about perspective, but I’m wondering why nobody mention the most Important part: how to know where to draw the behind part of the cube in 1 point perspective for instance? How to figure the right top and the bottom of the back side of a cube? I have a feeling that there’s some math behind.

We want the "AncientDayJames " 😁😁😁

I know this isn't related to any thing but *that **_shirt_* *_is k o o l_*

Useful tutorial. Thank you.

Thank you for this. I have one question, aside from the direction of the vertical lines, what else are the difference of two point and three point ?

But what's the difference between three-point perspective and two-point one?

Just started watching the video and i have to say, that is a creepy good top u r wearing...i like it....the skulls and all!! :)

This is on point! Straight lines ftw

Thanks for this.

name of the song?

Pretty informative and clear for a short intro to fundies!

Sometimes I hate myself for choosing drawing as a hobby

I think I'm failing to understand the purpose of 2 and 3 point perspectives. What can you not do with 1 point that you can do with 2 or more?

Your explaination is so Basic for me who has a hard time understanding advance english😑 and I'm thankful for that because I now know the perspective and also, I am still confuse at the third perspective, does the 3rd perspective means an object that looks like 3D?😖

Do you have a playlist of the music you use in your videos?

The book recommends rotating the paper when you want change the line direction. Do you practice drawing vertical and oblique straight lines as well? I'm asking because maybe one would want to draw on larger sized paper and rotating the whole thing would become a little tedious... Thanks for the video. Made me want to get the book :).

extraordinary steps, really very useful

I love your strokes

If you are just starting out and want to build foundation just like James talks about try the Drawabox lessons. free and a nice road map

There' art in mathematiques. The proof!... We learn about lines, cylindre, prisme, cube!... and more.

I realize that the video is a visualization tool. But you appear to have missed one, critical thing... Where's your MOST IMPORTANT TOOL, an absolute necessity, the "straightedge"? Why would you even consider practicing how to draw a straight line, especially while teaching perspective construction? There's NO "free-handing" in perspective drawing. Perspective rendering is about drawing with accuracy, until your drawing reaches the creative stage. That's why straightedges exist... so that the artistically-challenged, as well as the trained, don't have to perfect something that NO ONE can do. Textures & all the bling mean nothing, unless it's drawn accurately. However... you know exactly what you're talking about. Kudos.

Ok i need to subscribe here, super cool lessons bro

Good exercises ... Im rather slow when i Experiment New poses. Sometimes it Takes me a few days If i Work without any solid referrences.

Hey moderndayjames! do you have any book to suggest to deepen the perspective drawing and all the rules behind the drawing? keep up with your interesting videos! thank you for sharing ;)

Brother, In three point perspective u forget to mark the 3rd point ,which should be perpendicular to the perspective line according to the height of the object or building. Plz correct me if am wrong.

Not sure how much you response but I was just wondering if there was an easy way to draw cubes accurately in perspective without drawing a horizon, VPs, and lines from them.

You didn't show the 3rd point on the 3 points of perspective method, what is confusing. Such a huge lack of patience by skiping that important detail. Specially for beginners. For that reason this is the first and last video I see from this guy

Hey this was uploaded on my birthday - nice video btw!

Should I do it everyday or just one time

Its better learning these perspectives and fundamentals first before just going straight into drawing buildings ect saves a lot of time yes it can be confusing but will pay of in the end

Ok I just found your videos while searching some guides to get started in better sketching/designing. First off your content is great! But I have to be honest i couldn't nearly reproduce the textures like you did, even with looking at texture samples online. My drawing is aweful so maybe it is caused by that but is there any hint you could give me to get better at reproducing something like those textures?

Some of the video in this playlist are hidden. Can ypu please unhide them so that i can learn the other concepts.

Thank you sooo much 🌟🌟

I have a doubt that I am doing, when I make the 2nd box based on the lines of the 1st box, it does not add up, the lines move a little to the left or right and I already did it in digital and it still happens to me why?