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Follow along as I warm up with boxes in 2-point perspective. Try to do this for 15 minutes every day until the project video comes out.
Newest
Mint
2mo
I'm not used to ballpoint pen it was super messy but here's my first attempt I will definitely be doing this a lot more it was super fun
@julia52
2mo
Jack H
3mo
Drawing in two point perspective feels more natural than drawing in 1pp. I guess it's because it's more natural without having the front face facing the viewer the whole time.
Christina Unger
3mo
Not sure about the left box... Would you draw it like this?
Also, one other question: Here we just put the vanishing points where we want, but how you decide where to put the vanishing points if you want to construct a scene (like a room in the previous examples)?
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3mo
What you're seeing here is an example of your vanishing points being placed too close together which gives an extremely warped perspective. If you wanted to show an extreme POV or a jarring perspective this can be used creatively to that effect! If you'd like to create a more naturalistic perspective for rooms or buildings, place your vanishing points further apart. Generally you don't want both vanishing points to be visible inside the picture plane. That said, in your examples you have all of your boxes going to the same vanishing points, which works if they're all oriented in the same direction, but if you have multiple boxes, rotated in different directions, each box will have it's own set of vanishing points. Hope this helps!
Zander Schmer-Lalama
4mo
Yo! So this was a bit quiet, mostly due to the diagonal axis like Stan did in the warm up. I’ll have to rewatch the two point perspective video once again. I tried another this time without doing an infinite/out of sight vanishing point to slow help myself understand the concept more. My boxes/cubes could use some improvement. Feedback is always appreciated. Have a great day!
Tony Zhang
5mo
It’s really hard to figure out how to move something along one axis.
Angelica
5mo
Some warm ups. It’s quite tricky but i can feel how i’m slowly improving.
@breakfast
6mo
DrawYer
6mo
Some 2-point perspective box fun and pen fun !
Any comments or feedback welcome.
Caitlin
6mo
Very nice and clean. These look great!
CHARLES DEIGHAN
9mo
My two point boxes.
Lisanne
10mo
This was fun :) only thing I wasn't sure about is the bottom of the big blue. I think the angle was just so similar it turned out like this?
T-MarMaye
6mo
I added the construction lines in gray, and the edges of the box in green. I think it's how it is supposed to be, hope it helps!
@mariabygrove
11mo
Ok, so I spent waaaaay too much time on this, went down a countless rabbit holes but and in the end it turned out to be pretty simple. So there, a cube rotating in place in two point perspective :)
Gannon Beck
11mo
The one image you asked about was analysis of a painting on the Sistine Chapel, although you can use this approach to inventing figures as I did in the last 7 frames of the gif here.
Gannon Beck
11mo
If you can imagine the circle in the square on top as well as the bottom, you have the basis of the cylinder. If you can rotate a box in any position in your head, and the cylinder in any position in your head, you have the foundation for drawing things from your imagination.
Martin M
11mo
Brilliant! This is a mind blown moment for me.
@mariabygrove
11mo
Boxes, boxes, boxes...
@nathan_the_phaneuf
11mo
Did the book stack before watching the warmup video, but man it's an exercice in keeping clean lines and not crowding areas too much. I'll definitely use this warmup for thinking about every lines and for getting back into perspective.
Also, so close with the books. I almost had clean enough line if only I didn't decide to pass again on the extended lines going to their vanishing points with colored pencils. After that, I tried with thumbnails so I had to think about clean lines so it can read well. I think that worked well.
But hey, let me say Stan, add me to the list of those who like perspective. Sure, I see the restriction when you limit yourself to these guidelines, but trying to get this concept right and then going intuitive really gets me excited about the effect it can have on a composition.
Dermot
11mo
Here are some of my warm up boxes.
I tend to get things a bit messy in comparison to other posts.
I've been using a 2B and 4B pencil because they are easy to rub out.
I'm thinking this might not be such a good idea?
That said, to move on I had to ignore my mess.
How would you approach drawing a large number of boxes, like 300 and keep it interesting. Would that be possible in one perspective or would you have to use several perspective views? I think you'd need a strategy because it would be easy to repeat the same thing rather than draw 300 different boxes !
I realise it would be more that a warm up !
The bottom left 1 Point box; looks okay but the bottom left inside edge doesn't go to the VP, if it did, I think the back wall would look very small ?
My warmups: I need to do many more before I could call it a warm up !
Any advice on my warmups would be great, thanks.
Dermot
11mo
I've been looking through all the others drawings and they look amazing. The thing is, although many they look fine to me (novice), are they correct or does it matter if the viewer accepts them? Unless it's intentional to distort them. For me I'd like to know I had them correct and could choose between techniocally correct and distorted.
To anyone, what are your thoughts about this?
Samantha Maggard
11mo
Attempting to draw boxes digitally. What a totally different feeling.
hArtMann
1yr
Getting better at intuitive perspective.
loes roos
1yr
Just to keep along with warm ups even if only for a few minutes a day. I am surprised at how fun and relaxing doing just boxes can be...
Vin
1yr
Warm up! Lines are messy...
Vin
11mo
This warm-up is truly beneficial; somehow, it helps me refocus my attention away from the distractions of everyday life.
Brandon
1yr
try to figure out different corners' effect. I would say the up right one is the best angle for my room. But i dunno how come all of them seems zoom in any advice on that. ...
Shayan Shahbazi
6mo
Very cool🔥
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