Question: Is this possible? I’m have trouble to understand some reasons for chose 1, 2, or 3 vanishing points to represent what we see in real life. For example: in the attached image, I created another cube (the red one) that looks just like the middle cube, but I set it up with a second vanishing point. Would this be possible in real life? Under what conditions? What would explain the red square being in that position with a second vanishing point? To facilitate the mental exercise needed to answer: What would the image of these three cubes have to look like from above for the scene to be real? The answer is that the red cube’s sides would not be parallel to those of the cubes on the right, while at the same time its front face would have to be parallel to the front faces of the other two cubes... which means the red cube would no longer be a cube with right angles, right? @Stan Prokopenko @Marshall Vandruff

HI @Stan Prokopenko , It’s hard to see from this angle, but are you resting your hand on the page at all? I find it a lot easier to draw straights from my elbow/shoulder with my palm or fingers supporting by making contact with the surface— is that a bad habit?

This takes me back to middle school math class

Question: In 3D the Z-Axis is up and down (here displayed as Y). Why is it different here? This is kinda confusing.

Hello ! Can someone confirm what friend Van Hieu Vo said about the vanishing which has to be at the center of the field of vision in one-point perspective? Thx !

Another problem with one-point perspective is that the vanishing point must always be at the center of your field of vision, because it's physically impossible otherwise. Any photo where the vanishing point is not at the exact center was likely cropped. Of course you can still choose to frame your drawing however you like, kinda like cropping a photo to place the vanishing point wherever you like to get a more desirable composition.

My friend you just gave me an epiphany

Hi. I've been drawing for about a year now and i'm trying to learn perspective. This course was very helpful. I have bad anxiety and i wish to be a good artist and learn the right way and get good fast. I think drawing boxes is a nice and simple project for beginners like me. Thank you proko! Your videos have been very helpful. I decided to learn one point perspective first. I sure hope the others won't be too hard. Thank you so much for the wonderful videos and courses. I sure hope i can become a good artist and a good animator one day. Thanks so much!

Coming back after watching the explanation of the level 2 project: If I'm not mistaken, rotating a box in one-point perspective along the z-axis (the depth) doesn't change the position of the vanishing point or create new ones. This is because each edge along z will change position in the xy plane but they'll still be pointing in the same direction. The z axis of the object and thus the direction of convergence is unchanged. In less mathy terms, as long as every object (not necessarily a box) in a scene is directly facing us, the viewer, then there will only be one vanishing point regardless of the angle(s) of that front face. This is what let's us draw more complicated forms like arcade cabinets in one-point perspective with all their slanted planes. ...This can get confusing thinking about for too long but I figured I'd leave a comment since others might think about it as well. I think it's worth noting since it means you can get more out of one-point perspective than just a bunch of boxes sitting on the ground!

I decided to apply this video to a personal drawing instead of only drawing boxes which isn't as fun. I also watched David Finich's how to draw in 1pt perspective (at least the beginning) and intro to perspective I gave myself an hour so I can work on other lessons and projects. If you have any thoughts or feedback (*cough* *cough* @Gannon Beck *cough*) id love to hear it! I certainly got confused and I think I made the ground too low? Idk but better done than perfect!

Going back through this section of the course. I shall not fear perspective!

Humbling to see how my lines turn out. Nevertheless a fun way to practice lines in a more complex way than just 'drawing straight lines'. Adding this to the warm up mix!

Any advice to improve my line quality, I haven't practice straight lines in a while. How is the perspective working so far.

may I ask why you use moving along the y axis but rotating around the X axis as examples in the first minute? I know they are just examples, but given how much confusion exists around perspective and how much I struggled with it myself, wouldn't it be better to first show movement along the three axis to indicate how the foreshortening changes and THEN show that you can also rotate things around any axis? Otherwise that can already start out the video with some confusion on why the "change" on the Y axis is so different from the X axis. Maybe I am overthinking it, but given that it is the very fist example for the subject, maybe that would be helpful? Just my 2 cents. I doubt it will derail someones art career to leave it as it is.

1-pt perspective boxes. Thank you for the very hands-on approach. I always get frozen with perspective exercises, trying to make everything perfect. I think your message is that getting through the process is important, and there's always time to perfect execution as we go along. Did I understand correctly?

STAN!!! You're so FREAKIN' Funny!!!I love when you started sweating then it escalated!!!🤣🤣🤣 "...That's why we had that exercise..." Ugh. Sometimes we're so hard on ourselves. Even when no one is around. Hahaa! Thanks for being in the drawing "trenches" with us! Thank you for all the wisdom and knowledge and joy of art and humanity you're sharing with the world.

Great video - just to help everyone a good reference for perspective drawings is R Fraser Reekie's book Draughtmanship - its a very old book but good and as am architect ( drawing perspectives for years) i recommend it. Love all your videos!

I have a basic grasp of one, two and three point perspective. It's good to start from the beginning again. Thanks, great video and explanation. When you mention that as perspective gets more complicated there can be many vanishing points, that's where have difficulty and keeping track or even working out all of the vanishing lines in a scene without creating a mass / mess of lines. I'm looking forward to all the perspective lessons.

1 point perspective. Gotta get back to connect the dots warm ups.