The Perspective Course
Understanding Perspective(30 Lessons )
Intro to Perspective
Materials to Spare You Pain
Depth Tricks and Old Masters
Intro to Forms
Bonus Lessons
Mastering the Skills(0 Lesson )
I launched a new FREE app with the help of the team behind the Skelly app! The app is called ZOLLY and is designed to help you practice perspective.
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Max Long
1d
The Zolly app is fantastic! I need to work on the perspective of basic shapes and this app is perfect for that. I have been drawing cubes using the app. Also, I made use of the 3D model airplane. Two very useful tools! I have attached 3 sheets of practice. On the page with the model plane, I utilized one of the early lessons by roughing out the plane at the bottom left corner.
@syntacpencil
1d
I downloaded the app. Its free and there are extra objects that can be purchased. Really helpful with perspective and foreshortening.
Shayan Shahbazi
2d
I really appreciate apps like this, I use “Destiny 2” mobile app for 3D models. It is an application designed for in game items there are lots of different spaces ships, guns, vehicles and lores inside the game which all of them have 3D models inside the phone app. For the last assignment I used this app in order to find references, I drew City Apex the space ship and an Auto Rifle. There are so many more in the game which are mesmerizing. I appreciate 3D applications like Zolly, I think they are great help for training your eyes and brain. Thank you for sharing Marshall.
Sandra Salem
2d
I wanted to share how I am using the app. Very useful to develop that kin eye. Also, the 3D toy plane has been very interesting for understanding lens distortion when it comes to proportions.
@fatty2toes
2d
The app is awesome! Thanks for making it. I can't wait for an animal pack, weapons pack and character figure packs and whatever else. Awesome tool and brilliantly designed. Highly recommend.
Sandra Salem
3d
Thank you to the Proko team and you, Marshal, for this app. To me, drawing from reality and visual references is the faster (although tedious) way to create that data library inside my head. My prefrontal cortex is not the most evolved part of my brain, so I rely in intuition a lot. This app is great for that! Thank you for going always the extra mile!
Anthony DeGennaro
4d
Do the premium students get access to the extras or are they still behind the pay wall? Great app either way, looking forward to utilizing it!
Dermot
5d
Thanks again for access to this brilliant perspective course.
There are so many creative folk on this course.
I've been practicing to draw Freehand, some simple items as instructed
in an earlier topic.
First in 45 degree view and then repositioned (imagined), as you explained.
I'd like to better understand how to think this imagined view through manually first.
Are there more lessons coming with this thought in mind before using such a tool?
The Zolly app looks amazing Marshall.
Are you saying Zolly's an essential tool to continuing in your course moving forward?
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5d
An essential tool? Not at all! Artists have been mastering perspective long before the Zolly App!
But for the past six months, we have worked to create an app we wished for. If it seems to you like it will help, it probably will. We put a lot into making it easy to use.
Regarding your question about "how to think this imagined view through manually first", it may help to review the reminders:
One is that if you are having trouble, begin simply with blobs.
Another is that precise positioning will be found in the three axes of a block. Soon.
Another is that for most students, it requires work to conjure a new position. Take time to envision. Understanding is important, but so is the ability to "see" what isn't there — a skill worth practicing.
Perhaps the most important reminder is the answer to your final question: not only are there more lessons to come about this, the whole course is about this! Drawing what you imagine...
I hope this helps, Dermot; Zolly App or No Zolly App.
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