i drew a two point room because i misread the first project's rules oops, so ill put it here instead

I tried to stack a few books on a desk while varying the vanishing points and trying to plot some estimates when the vanishing point was outside of the paper. It was also fun to use a pencil ! Any comments or feedback welcome

What is the significance of moving the two vanishing points closer, like how do I know where to place them? If the two vanishing points are closer (like in the top drawing), is that similar to like a fish eye lens on a camera in how it warps things? Just trying to understand it better, where these points should land.

Hi guys, one point perspective was easy :) Could someone explain me pleas why books I drew doesn't look like it's laying flat on each other? I thought as long as vertical axis is perpendicular to horizon it should look like it's flat on one another but apparently it's not enough. And how to figure out correct second vanishing point for the desk in my drawing after all?

You don't need plan and elevation view to rotate vanishing points. You just need to find you station point and use a 90degree triangle to rotate them.

just want to share that I did a painting with boxy horses (Swedish wooden Dala-horses) and receeding fences and realized how useful the X method and other perspective stuff was for this. Thanks Stan. 😀

I experimented with the book stack but found it difficult to see and draw. So I took a few photos from different angles. I'm not sure it was a good idea as it's not really what you demonstrated. With the random book stack I wasn't sure when looking at them the horizon or vanishing points, so drew the books and then extended their edges to what I considered the direction of the VP points. My conclusion is I'm still uncertain of which perspective I'm using, I think it's 2 point as most of the books are viewed corner on making the sides visible. I marked the suggested vanshing lines on the drawing border as suggested in the video and tried to use them, but that became confusing too, I think because the various books were angled differently so each would have created their own VP points. Any advice appreciated. Thanks

How do I know how far apart to place the vanishing points?

I think I finally figured something out with the kitchen drawing. I first have to find the box that is the SPACE in which the kitchen sits and ignore the spaces around it. This is a redraft of the perspective drawing of my kitchen, which is pretty close to what I see when I stand in the dining room and look into the kitchen from the side. I'd like to try this by doing a 1-pt perspective drawing, but I think it will be a distorted view. It might be easier, though, to depict the kitchen interior in 1-pt perspective.

Tried to draw some books with different vanishing points. Hope u guys like it. :D

Oh, g-dddd. Please, someone help! I know that there is 2-pt perspective in this very rough drawing. This is an alt-2 for our kitchen renovation. Showing an existing wall on the right, with extra cabinetry in the event we cannot take the wall down (X-ray.) I drew and redrew the corners of the cabinet several times because I got very confused by the perspective. .

Weird…. when I draw, without using a grid, I feel like there’s something inside that enables me to see the way it’s supposed to be. When I put a grid down, I spend so much time trying to get it just right that I start to get confused because of the lines, very strange… I worked on this for a long time. On the drawing/painting that I’m working on, I wanted to make sure that I got the perspective correctly because I wanted to see if I should look down from above, or straight at it in the scene. Here’s the books I put together…. however, books are squares, not a tree or a horse, for example, so that’s when it gets a little sketchy for me. Going to keep working on it.

been practicing wt u taught abt the 2 pt perspective. I found a lot of of difficulties when I tried to convert my 1 pt perspective to 2 pt. the most obvious one is scale and relative sizes of different objects. Choosing the point of view is also critical and I guess I choose the wrong one coz I cannot show everything that I drew in 1 pt on 2 pt. I also drew bunch of cars lately, try to straight everything out but kind of confused about where my line should converge for the smaller details.

This 2 points perspective thingy for stacking books is so cool! I just did a quick warmup to put it into test and the result is quite nice!

Stan, always love your explanation on different subjects , they are really entertaining and easy to absorb . I would say this year is the greatest improvement that I have, on my skills and understanding on artworks as I joined this course. I started learning drawing/art last year and drawing spaghetti until this course comes to my eyes. I learnt some perspective before by watching some youtube video online but i dunno know how to rotate the object while keeping its accuracy(at least close enough) which you mentioned in this video. Also, I am trying to draw from imagination starting from this week, but I always ignore the details in the big shape, would you talk about it in the later session? If anyone have any suggestion on what I am asking, feel free to comment. Thanks y'all.

Stan, that's great, clarified some basic details for me with vanishing point placement and the stacked book demo. Looking forward to the next videos and projects.

HI Stan can I make a scene like this with just the one point and two point perspective techniques you've showed.Can I go for it?or maybe a little simpler one because I can already identify the perspectives of a few elements .I think this scene has multiple perspectives mixed.Please correct me if I'm wrong

Thank you so much Stan.Was eagerly waiting for this one.

Hello, nice lesson. This is my first time to draw 2-point perspective, so I took step by step to practice demo 1 to 4. It's really useful! Although the books tower was a little bit challenging for me. But I am happy with my first 2-point result. Can't wait for the next video. And I also like the drawings of alariko.

I think you're really hitting the nail on the head on how you're going about teaching this in a beginner course. A basic understanding is essential, whereas going all the way down the perspective rabbit hole at this stage would bog down students. Some of the most persistent errors I've seen in other courses, here and elsewhere, is students not applying this thinking to their figure work. Attempting to build a figure on primitive forms won't work if one doesn't have a solid general understanding of how to draw the primitives themselves. A course like this has been needed in the art world for a long time. Finding the Goldilocks zone of perspective teaching for beginner students is shockingly absent in art education. But here it is! You're doing it. I couldn't be more excited about this course.