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The Perspective Tutorial
Published: 2008-08-08 03:11:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 265009; Favourites: 8104; Downloads: 11578
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This tutorial is new. It includes additional notes and will replace the preview version, as it includes one through three point perspective and other things....Murr... I haven't signed on in months, but I thought I might upload a little somethin' somethin' for you before I lose my internet. So yeah, I won't be replying to notes, comments et cetera, but I hope you will enjoy this tutorial.
Heh, lots of typos I'm sure. u__u Careful before you download; the image is around 15 thousand pixels high.
D.A. LUV,
Sasha Lynn Stowers
UPDATE: Thanks very much for support via faves and comments. I'm also really happy to get a DD for a tutorial (my favorite devs.)
For those of you using this for classes or as a teaching aid: I'm happy you find this so useful. I don't mind if you use this as an outline for your work. But if you could credit me with the text, point your students to my website or DA page that'd be awetastic. Also, if you could provide me some info where you are teaching it (name of school, location, etc.) or pictures of your students using my text that be great : ) I'd like to combine these and other tutorials into a mega thick book, and I think it would helpful when I create a book proposal.
Thanks very much,
Sasha Lynn Stowers
I make my tutorials for free, but if you enjoy my tutorials and want to donate some funds for gas, art books, and such, I would appreciate it. [link]
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mayshing's perspective tutorial---> [link]
helpful stuff in my gallery---> [link]
the lineart tutorial---> [link]
the penciling tutorial---> [link]
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Comments: 465
Great help and very easy to understand!!
Thank you~<3
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This is WONDRFUL! I am struggling to understand and this is SO helpful!
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this is so incredibly helpful, I would have been shocked if this did not have a DD. Super amazing, thanks.
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Hi there thanks for the help.
I have a quick question regarding three point perspective.
How to draw objects that are non parallel. Example books on a table that are turned at an angle of 45.
I'm stuck can't find any examples on internet.
Etienne
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This is fantastic. So easy to follow. I gained more from this one tutorial, than 5 years of doing art in school. You have amazing talent.
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Very helpful tutorial, I followed it all the way through and didn't get stuck once. You have a fresh way of writing which made it very easy to follow. Great stuff
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I had some work with those perspective at high school! That's really a good guide (:
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i donno what i have to say,
it's wonderful awesome great
it really helped me so much
thank u sash so much
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I'll fave to read it later, but it seems to be pretty interesting :3
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Kinda confusing but I think I get the idea of it. Nice job though
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Thank you so much for the worm's eye and bird's eye explanation. I never knew they were the same thing as far as drawing the shapes go.
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Amazing! People write books about perspective, and here it is, one page worth more than most of them.
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Wow. This is awesome! I have a major problem understanding linear perspective and rotating 3D shapes in my head, so I'm reading through this in small chunks, so I can digest it. I'm hoping this time, I really can understand it properly. Thank you so much! Faving for reference.
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Wonderful tutorial - I really learnt a lot whilst doing this. And I really did love drawing along with you; it helped reinforce your points. Thank you very much for this! But, I'm curious, can this be applied to drawing persons from different perspectives?
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So, I understand everything that you said in this tutorial. I understand the use of vanishing points to create a single box or multiple parallel boxes, but what about boxes that are not parallel to one another? It seems that in order to make non-parallel, you would need non-shared vanishing points, but how do you know where to put them?
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that's right, you need to create another set of vanishing points. it's up to you where to put them. just imagine that you look from above on the whole scene and rotate the original vanishing points to the angle you want to achieve on the second one, assuming the viewer is the vertex of the angle. you can make infinite number of vanishing points this way.
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this is really great tutorial, it explains a lot of things that are usually ignored in most perspective tutorial. even though I'm after architecture drawing course I learned useful informations from you. I really appreciate your work put into this tutorial.
I only wish letters were a bit bigger, I struggled a little with reading
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Here's my burning question: how do you know where to put the vanishing points? It all seems so....arbitrary....to me, so when I try to work with perspective, nothing ends up looking right because I don't know what creates vanishing points. Halp me!! lol
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I wish I knew what exactly creates a vanishing point, but it seems like it's just our eyes. 
if that didn't help, what exactly you don't understand about vanishing points? maybe I can explain you more thoroughly (I'm not a great teacher, but I'll do what I can)
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Well, the only thing I don't understand is what creates a vanishing point. There has to be some kind of rhyme and reason behind where exactly they go on the horizon line, although I seem to do alright without knowing for sure where to put them.
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it's not really that important where exactly on the horizon you put the vanishing points, it's you who decide where to put them - you can say that you create them. 
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Oh, okay that makes a bit more sense. Thanks!
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I thought I was onto something DX. I've never had anything to do with perspective before and it's going to become really obvious when you read what I'm about to say. Also I haven't read the whole thing yet.
I took that thing you did earlier in the tutorial, in the 1-Point perspective. You found the middle of an object in perspective by drawing the "X." This broke it into halves.
I was trying to find a way to break it into thirds so I had the idea to draw two triangles overlapping each other at the half marker. One triangle right side up one triangle upside down. This divided it into fourths. When I took a better look at it I noticed I just basically drew another two "X's" over the two halves that had been already made and did what you already showed us how to do.
Live and learn I guess. Still feels a little durpy of me. *facepalms*
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if you want to divide a rectangle in three, you are on the right way - just instead of two isosceles triangles inside of the rectangle, draw only one, and then draw a diagonal of the rectangle. 1/3 is the point where the side of the inner triangle and the diagonal cross.
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If you feel up to uploading a drawing I'd appreciate it. Thanks
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This looks extremely useful!
Not to mention well-made.
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Thanks for this! I have rediscovered how to draw perspective because of your helpfulness
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The difference that seperates an okay tutorial from an amazing one: One that not only explains a method... but the why behind it. Forever fav'd.
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Thank you so much for your hard work on this tut! It's very helpful
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You are just amazing girl! I wanna thank you for all your inspiration and talent you are giving out to the world!
Big Love!
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So much reading.......it will be worth it in the end.
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Great tutorial. It had a few minor typos and the like, but nothing too serious. Excellent work!
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If you were anywhere close to me, I would hug you.
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Thank You for this tutorial... It's great for a beginner like me!
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Thank you, I find it and practice for perspective test tmw.
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This is simply great, I found it very useful, its clear and funny!!
You have teach me more in this about perspective than two profesors in one year and a half... plus the image of the duck is cute 
All I have left to say is thank you for this wonderfull job, Im going to check the rest of your gallery. And I have to keep practicing xD.
TschΓΌs!!
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Amazingly simple and a awesome tutorial tyvm ......lol just the topic i was lookin for :3
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This is really good and I finally understand perspective
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Thank you for posting this, it's going to be a real boon in my future work
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