Much as these videos are great it's always frustrating with perspective tutorials where your vanishing points are always both on the page whereas i've never had a thing i've had to illustrate in my life where i have two vanishing points and one of them isn't like six page widths away. Back when i did real media that was fine because i had a big drafting table where i could just have my vanishing points marked on the table with string and i always had a guide but digital has been a challenge since i simply don't have that as an option most of the time. So i have my one (If i'm lucky) vanishing point on the page, then i sorta have to guess where the other should be. Obviously the suggestion would be just stretch the canvas and establish them but when you're working with poster size canvases your'e then talking of having a canvas in the tens of thousands of pixels wide which turns my pc into a potato. I'd love a video of just how to deal with these issues in digital art.

Great info helping me out making a retarder for my acrylic airbrushing paint. I'm trying to keep it from drying on the needle for doing some fine lines.

If you want the same sponge that comes with most WET PALETTES Look for polyvinyl alcohol (pva) sponge cloth Not cellulose sponge

Thank you for this awesome idea! It saved me from purchasing yet another tripod. I cut my tape long and thin and loop it all the way around both ways (so it stays on) and double it when needed. I also plan to take my (Scotch Blue #2090) tape with me to all of my shoots and apply the tape (doubled as needed) under the locks once I open my tripod to the correct height, to ensure zero movement. The tape peels off super easy, like painters tape when I'm ready to tear down and load up the car.

I think this vid maybe wrong, use sp > vp line and make it vertical for 2point (I tested this method showed here and it didn't match up at all with blender) try it at a 22.5/67.5 rotated cube you will see how extremely off it is

Doesn't the 2 point perpsective method only work for a square right in the middle of the vanishing points?

Thanks alot ❤

The 'Sta-Wet' is really the best overall deal, and worth every penny. I have four of them, used for years. BTW, my computer is fine (speakers and all), but your sound is not great on this video- way too muted. Perhaps I'm the only one who has mentioned this, but I finally quit listening well before the video ended. Thought I'd let you know.

Thank you. ❤

What can you add to the water to avoid mold?

Do you know the book of the art of John Harris, beyond the horizon? It is also defined as imaginative realism.

You should do a bird scull!

Fantastic video, Thanks Alan.

awesome, i love it , looks like a hard watercolor , congratulations!

Why don't you just use masterson stay wet pallette ?!🤔 Isn't that way easier from going through all this ???!!

Not Perfect at all.. you're just roughly clicking on the screen. These are all approximations. If i wanted that i would just freehand it. Your grids points are not measured at all and yet you use them to make something "perfect". Making a perfect square from an imperfect circle? Tell me how that works 🙄

1:45 How to make a perfect square: Step 1: draw a perfect circle

I teach drawing and this was extremely useful, especially for teaching cylinders and eclipses… thanks

0:15 - You never explained how you calculated the Depth of a Cube in 1-Point Perspective... Also... I have some questions about 2-Point Perspective... How do you know that if you Drew a Line from the Left and Right Base Corners of the Cube that it will be Parallel with the Horizon Line? How do you know that the Half-Way Point between the Two Vanishing Points is the "True Center?" Overall, I would say that the Method that you've come up with regarding how to determine the Height of the Cube in 2-Point Perspective to be Reasonable, but it requires further Explanation as to "Why" it works the way it does.... I watched the little 35 second gif that you made, but I still don't quite understand what's going on... Certainly, the Height should be the Longest of all 3 Sides of the Cube in 2-Point though given that it is the Closest to the Viewer...

I think it was very useful having your commentary about your choices and why you changed things.

Is it possible to use this or a similar setup to set breakpoints in Blender's C/C++ source code and step through that? I'm trying to learn about Blender's internals to fix a couple bugs I think I found.

Thanks for the idea.

This was very helpful. I hope you're doing well and still sculpting. I'm looking to get back into art after 20 years away from it. Thanks for creating these videos. I'm going to look for your other social media sites. 🎬📝

You fucking legend! Thank you so much. Everything worked almost as described on the git page, but I had to manually set the debugpy path and I had to manually write in the debug configuration. I don't use Windows often, but needed to use a Blender plugin for some design work and spent hours trying to blindly debug some old Koch snowflake addon. Once the debugger was attached, it took a matter of minutes for me to fix the addon. I don't often use Blender, but I'm subbing just for the hell of it :)

now how to rotate objects in 4d

In the UK its known as Baking paper.

I drank all the milky-milk in my sippy cup!

Time and time again I always find my way back to this video when I need to relearn how to make perfect squares. I honestly have no clue how this video doesn't have more views. More students should watch it really does relieve confusion and provides a peace of mind lmao. Much appreciated

Hey there! Amazing content and video! I saw you mention that you solved the mystery of the point in the corner for transferring the height of the cube? I'd be super curious to hear your discoveries! Keep making awesome stuff!

Figured it out, YES. 7 MONTHS IN THE MAKING. NOW I CAN DRAW CUBES ANY ANGLE.

Is there any way for any of these softwares to accurately detect measurements? So for example, if you were to 3D print the sculpture, it'd be a near perfect match to the actual sculpture's size?

Muy bueno!! quedo solido y suelto al mismo tiempo!

Hola Alan! Gracias por tu contenido, encontre tu canal porque tengo un pincel casan brislon que compre (barato porque era medio viejito) y queria arreglarle la ferula, encontre tu video de como limpiar la pintura que se seca en el nucleo de las cerdas. Espero que andes bien y sigas haciendo arte! Te hablo en español porque alba solamente se consigue en Argentina y aledaños! jaja Un gran saludo! (ya tenes casi 4000 subs, un monton!)

I have a question about making the 2D squares like you did at the start of this video. I was wondering if the following steps always work for making perfect squares: 1. Draw one line from each vanishing point and have them intersect anywhere on the page 2. Draw a line from the midpoint to the intersection 3. Draw a new set of lines from the vanishing points that intersect somewhere on the line that goes to the midpoint (although it doesn't matter where you make them intersect, as altering this just determines the size of the square) Am I doing something wrong here? Sometimes I get squares that might be right, but feel a little funny to me (specifically when I make the lines from the vanishing points not intersect under the midpoint i.e. the midpoint line is not vertical), although that could just be something wrong with my eyes. Or is there something wrong with my understanding of your method?

Nice channel and nice skull study

Guess I will just never rotate stuff. 🤡 Thanks for the video!

Just did this for my 300 dollar Manfrotto tripod. I can't believe this simple hack worked perfectly. Exactly two pieces of tape.

yes!

i know this is an old video, but what i don't understand is if this technique still works when the square doesn't actually intersect with the middle of the frame

Wow, this is brilliant. Thanks!

Thank you from 2022. Very helpful and thorough.

So this is all fascinating but then you run into the obvious issue where almost nothing you'll ever draw as an artist has both vanishing points on the page and even just making a simple grid to keep to keep proportion to scale as things recede in the distance is just guess work. How the hell do you deal with this stuff for real world drawing?! Is it jut a matter of practice and you just get better at guessing perspective and drawing it intuitively?

Brilliant video, sir! Thank you!

What's the cone of vision degree? 60? Or 90? Great video!

This should be an exercise on draw a box

Amazing, thank you!

I'm a complete newby, trying to learn. When you say medium do you mean "Gel medium" or "paint"? Thanks!

This pleases me 💙