How do you learn intuitive perspective?
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@vonun
Hi
I need some help learning intuitive perspective. I really don't know how to go about it or where to even start learning it.
I did draw a box up to the sixth lesson. With every lesson i grew more frustrated and confused, I asked some in the community but nothing really helped me understand. Now i think it's because of the method they use in DaB.
What kind of exercises would you recommend me? Do you know some good videos?
Study formal perspective long enough for it to become intuitive.
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What do you mean with formal perspective? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I don't know all important terms yet.
Have you studied 1st and 2nd point perspective yet? Intuitive perspective (I am guessing that means approximating perspetive without calculating it mathematically) comes after you understand the basic principles. If you are just trying to fake the knowledge, it probably won't look right. Marshall Vandruff's perspective video on his website is great. It's old and bad production value but really good. Feel free to send me your art if you want an outside opinion on what to work on
Hi
I've studied 1,2 and 3 point perspective quite a lot. 1 point is no problem. But 2 and 3 point I struggle with, when the vanishing points are not on my page.
I still prefer drawing traditionally so I always loose track of where the points are. I turn the page so my lines are smoother and due to that my head just really struggles keeping them at the same places in my mind.
I forgot that Marshall had a perspective course on his website. Personaly I don't mind old videos or such. So thanks for recommending it.
Would love to send you some of my work though I don't draw much right now. I'll send you some when I start studying perspective. Thank you for your help.
It's funny, but I had originally meant to post here to recommend Draw A Box and how they do the intuitive perspective with boxes (I forget which lesson it was), where you try to draw your lines going toward the vanishing point, but don't use a ruler until you're checking them later. To be honest, that exercise ended up helping me a lot. I'm still a beginner myself, but one other tip I saw someone mention in a youtube video a while ago was to look on Google Street View and find a random place (or just Google Images) and then put the image into a graphics program and try to trace where the perspective lines are for each building or item. (Alternately, I suppose you could print it and do the same.) The person who posted the video said that it really helped them a lot to get a "feel" for perspective. I've been meaning to try it out myself also.
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Thanks for your response! I remeber the that DaB exercise and it is quite a good one. Though it only really helps with one point perspective.
But the Google Street View one sounds so genius.
