Everybody gangsta until they freehand an ellipse

I saw this a year ago and didn't get nothing because I wasn't advanced enough. A year later I finally get it after learning a lot from studying from other sources

My stupidity failing me to understand the perspective lesson in the class brought me here. Finally I could understand what my professor trying to say. Thank you for making these videos!

The use of multiple colors make it so much easier to read. I can hardly imagine how confusing it would look like as monochrome. xD I'm glad this series was recommanded to me by someone on an art Discord.

Your vids are perfect for us intermediate folk that are stuck in that twilight zone between amateur and advanced intermediate! I have been following the advice you've given us in these vids and needless to say my 3d forms and understanding of perspective have increased in quality tenfold. These techniques have helped effectively catch mistakes I was previously missing. Many thanks!!! You rock, dude!!!

JAMES! This is INCREDIBLE I'm furious I didn't find these series of videos until today. This is going to sound like an exaggeration but I am honestly so moved seeing how you are able to transform simple shapes into three dimensional objects. I've been struggling with art for YEARS with all my work looking so flat and listless and 'floating' on the page or canvas. Nothing seems grounded to anything and everything just looks very wonky and off. Everywhere I read just said to 'practice more' which didn't feel like it was helping because I was just reinforcing my incorrect way of doing things. I did a tiny bit of perspective work in school but hated it and tossed it to the side for being too hard and beyond my capabilities while feeling like an idiot in the process. Seeing how you explain it in easy to understand terms while illustrating it one step at a time has opened my eyes on how it actually works and how everything 'sits' in three dimensions. Again sounds ridiculous but I feel so relieved that I might finally be able to tackle perspective and massively improve my work I am getting a bit teary. No more weird flat faces with floating features. Plants and animals that actually sit on the page. Backgrounds I have been too daunted to attempt. Hell literally anything it feels like once I get a handle on this the world is my oyster! Thank you so so SO so MUCH for taking the time to make these videos I'll definitely be checking out your patreon in the very near future!

I just wanna say I really love you. I have really poor focus & I appreciate your short but straight to the point videos

"The minor axis is allways in the direction of the vanishing point" I think that trobleshooted my weird ellipses. The tricky thing is guessing the correct degree of inclination when drawing in a loose way.

Just stumbled across your channel. I'm an architecture student and enjoy sketching a lot in my free time, and this series is giving me a much better understanding of the underlying forms that construct what I am seeing. Awesome stuff.

How is it possible that you have such low view ? Your content is fantastic ! Thank you for sharing !

Im crying cause I have no idea what is going on

Where were you when I started 8 years ago? Damn. This is juicy stuff right here. Thanks for doing this.

Oh yessss!!! The vanishing point determines the direction of the minor axis is exactly what I've been looking for!! Thank you so much!!!

Just a bit of clarification for some who are not yet familiar with this: The Minor Axis of an Ellipse (or a Circle viewed in perspective) aligns with the orientation of it (the direction it faces). Keep in mind that this rule only applies to Circles viewed in perspective, not Ellipses themselves in perspective.

I quit reading Robertson's because It had became very hard to understand, this is helping a lot thanks

the hardest part is getting the ellipse right and you don't address that. what is it aligned to? That's my big question

Note: The minor axis of the elipse or wheel is always at 90 degrees to the major axis!

Nearly four years later, and I just found these tutorials. These have all been extremely helpful, and I've been literally getting great results after 2-to-3 attempts! Maybe all I needed was a little bit of a perspective shift! (pardon the pun). Thank you so much!

im an artist of about 10 years now and ive honestly never enjoyed anatomy or perspective until these videos! some of it comes naturally for me but im seeing how many fundamentals ive missed...big help, thanks!

Really helpful thank you😄

Great stuff, yes. One suggestion I would have, it's personal & I know you are not making a fortune from doing these, is that the numbering system be more organized by what the lesson type is such as Perspective I, II etc & Structural Anatomy I, II etc. Thank you for very informative videos. Yes, I have Subed

wow, I'm so glad I stumbled over your videos while I was searching for help with perspective. You helped me a lot, thank you! Now I'm no longer terrified when I think about perspective because it'd seem too complex or frustrating.

Thank you very much! I've been studying perspective for some time now using Scott Robertson's How To Draw book and this video helped me to understand some concepts.

mannn this is really helpful! I know to myself that that I I'm not advanced enough to get all of this because I'm still struggling with rotating cubes ,but man I'm always strugling with the ellipse whenever a do the loomis method and this vid enlightened me

Thanks for your videos, they’ve definitely been a great help on learning to draw cars! I’m finishing up on Scott Robertsons book combined with watching your videos, now I am fully understanding how to make these cars in Perspective! Thanks man, your videos were a great help!

The car seems like some advanced shit, but on the other hand you're only using techniques you already taught before, so it just seems hard, but not impossible/magical. Gonna try that in Krita and see how it'll work for me.

wild how public education doesn't automatically include advanced drawing because paired with my calculus classes in hs would have been super fun. I was already a dweeb for math but drawing being prioritized would have given me more context and something to explore on my own.

7:27 This view is called wireframe. The first conception of 3D CAD applications was based on the wireframe view and then involved into the shaded view. Nice videos

dude i was so bad at perspective but with your videos and practice from them and more exercises everyday i learn a lot and understand so much. Thanks you so much!

EXCELLENT insight on the curves and vertical lines. That was always my main weakness with drawing cars in perspective. Thanks.

You are my master!!!. Hey one question can i apply that to a human body, for example 3/4 view or different angles

I don t know but you have your way to make me love more the constructive part in a drawing. Thank you for that cuz I love to expand my ideas by learning to draw from imagination.

Can you do more exercises like this? but drawing others things like a human head or an arm, etc. (Sorry for my english)

Limiting the movement of the paper for the video is doing you good man. You are ripping straight lines in every angle!

Deym, I still find this hard 😂

that's actually quite mindblowing, tanks for the tutorial

thank you sir , thank you for sharing.

Great presentation. Imo--it would help to a slight pause after significant steps so the viewer can take it in. Thanks for helping me dig into this

Thanks James

Ok question time, a square is 90° and a 90° ellipse aka a circle fits perfectly into a square. Does that mean the degree of the perceived square is in direct relation in the naming of the ellipse's degree? Like a 50° ellipse in perspective is within a 50° square? And if I'm wrong then how would you determine the degree of an ellipse? I can't see any other way of measurement

My shape of my car looks like it's from the 60s but I almost got it perfect! Thanks a lot James these are some great tutorials

diffucalt thing makes you from easy thing thankz for your good drawing .......

Thank you for this! Truly art life saving.

The minor axis isn't always in the direction of the vanishing point. It's the reason I'm still confused. I can draw an ellipse and find the minor axis by dividing it into equal parts. In extreme perspective it doesn't always align with the vanishing point. Close to the horizon line, yes. Far above or below it, no.

Smart man! thank you for sharing this process.

We want Ancient day James

Moderndayjames you are Love.

So basically the minor axis is measuring the angle of the rotation of your ellipse facing the vanishing point? Like the reason the circle getting smaller cause it’s rotating in perspective. We call the minor axis cause it’s getting smaller. Mean while the major axis will always be bigger cause it’s not the part of the circle being rotated?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.. this is great and helpful especially for industrial design student like me.

Wow.... Really helpful video.... Thank you so much

Subscribed. One of the best masters.

Thank you for the valuable info. Great work. 🙏🏼

hi! great tutorials keep them up! just one question. you mention that minor axis always goes to the vanishing point which is true but I think there is room for confusion in your one point perspective example where you layout elipses on the ground. their vanishing point -minor axis is the perpendicular to the ground since they are on planes that are looking up. not the one that goes in depth. in the particular example the two axis just happen to line up . correct me if I am wrong ! thanks!

man, glad I found this channel. Great stuff

I slowed down the video to .25 speed to catch some things I didn't understand about the drawing process, and my God, I can't stop laughing...

So glad I discovered your channel. Your content is fantastic!

Thank you. I finally get it! Minor axis is in direction of v.p. and major is perpendicular to v.p. Only thing it puzzles me now is my questionable intelligence perk.

this one is pretty hard to follow though the two previous videos were easy..

Bro sounds like that one art student that really knew math

I like the beats.

Such a useful guide! Thanks a lot for doing this videos!!!

Is this the preferred way for the beginner it just seems really complicated to me thanks for sharing!!!!

Awesome mate

Can u make a tutorial in which face Planes method is best? Loomis, Relly etc :)

Love your Lessons

Hello, Thank you for your great videos. They are really helpful. I have one question. At 2:59, why does the minor axis go toward the left vanishing point and not towards the right one? Thank you 😊

OMG. this is what I needed to learn

These videos are amazing and so easy to understand, I’ve been puzzled by perspective ellipses for ages. Cannot thank you enough!

Hey james, i have a question. Is there a way to determine the exact angle of the ellipse based the perspective grid which you created?? Thank you

These are great! Thanks so much!!

wow... so cool.

It's very Scott Robertson.

Hey James, I'm a bit confused why the minor axis of the ellipse at 2:51 heads towards the L.V.P and not R.V.P...

GREAT work

That was brilliant, an extention of Scott Robdrtson's technique. Can you dmonstre further how yo woul sketch a car from a phto model or in situ to thecfinished sketch? A big ask I know but I didn't go to school for this and I have so many questions. Thanks very much

Thank you for this lecture :D

how long should i spend practicing whats in the video before i move on, i have "how to draw" by scott roberson and find it easy to make a rectangular prism by placing a horizon line and 2 VP but when i want to create a rectangular prism at perspective i have chosen i find it extremely hard...

wooow it looks like your drawing in 3d

Could you do a video on the cone of vision and it's applications? Thanks!

MYD--@1;33, you aree just guess-timating the square, right?

Im trying to understand But sorry i can not but again i tried to...thanks for sharing this video.. but i like the car you draw..

I followed part one and two but i cant follow along with this one because there's too many constructions lines I cant see anything and I have no idea where to draw my next line 😭

ah man this is so cool

Good tutorial 👍👍😊

Ok so this series is for people that already started learning it elsewhere. I see.

Thanks!!

Who else is watching this on .25 speed, it sounds like names is on codeine. Maybe that’s an idea for your next skit James?

Wow. So good

Request for future videos, the how to render book covers castshadows. I find it even more confusing then the how to draw book. Videotutorials help me way more... any chance for a future rendering series?

i don't understand something. At 3:03 how can you have the minor axis aligned both to the left vanishing point and the right?

just a little moment, Scott Robertson was using perspective grinds for some of his objects in perspective, and so was you to? im asking cause i haven't seem the same as in his book

damn thats pretty sick

Hi James, thanks for making this video. Quick question, how did you mirror the line to the other side without drawing a diagonal line to the center at 5:32？ Did you estimate or did I miss something?

Any book u think will help

Do you have a class for advanced drawing?

Why are the other videos "private" ?

Are you supposed to just freehand drawing a perfect circle in perspective (standing up) or is there some other method?

Cara seu canal é um dos primeiros melhores de desenho que eu conheço, más tem como colocar legendas em português??

best vídeo

Me : *Watching this video for many times until I understand My Brain : "HELPPP!!!! THIS GUYS IS CRAZY!!!"