Perspective Drawing & 3D Lessons
Perspective drawing is a skill - once understood and used correctly - that can really help take your drawings to a whole new level. Be it a person, an object, or a building - accounting for depth and distances in art, makes for an entirely different creative experience.
In High School - yes, thinking waaaaaay back! - one of the first perspective drawing exercises I remember is creating a section of a city (street, buildings, curbs... people too if you wish to draw them in) using a simple 'two-point perspective' method.
Basically, you start with two horizontally leveled points on opposite sides of the page, and create a drawing of a city - all lines emerging from either of these two points. It's amazing how cool AND REAL!! a drawing can look, implementing the simplest of principles such as this.
Here on the site, there are different situations where using perspective - really can be of help.
A good example of this - is drawing a simple table. Depending on the dimension of the object (2? 3?) and the angle at which its being viewed... a table can take on several different looks.
The tables above for example - illustrate this point quite nicely. On the left - its being viewed from above at a '3/4' angle. So yes - no perspective points are needed. On the right however, the viewing angle is different such that the part closest to the observer - the eyes! - appears bigger. And the part(s) further away - smaller of course.
In this area of the site - let's have some fun with simple perspective drawing-orientated lessons, as well as those that involve drawing in the 3rd dimension.
Click on one below to begin!
How to Draw a TableLearn how to draw a table in two different ways -- with and without perspective taken into account.
Easy Cartoon Steak DrawingOnce you get the top part down, drawing a cartoon steak is no problem at all. In four parts, draw one here.
Peanut Butter & Jelly Cartoon SandwichBe it peanut butter & jelly, ham & cheese, or even a BLT... learn how to draw a simple cartoon sandwich here!
A Cartoon House to Call Your Own!Truly, there's no place like home. In this lesson - learn how to draw a simple, generic cartoon house.
Customize a Cartoon ComputerHere it is -- a simple cartoon computer drawing... mapped out, customized, and created by you!
Draw a Simple Red CarPerspective in mind, learn to create a simple red car drawing - one that you can customize.
Recommended Drawing Resources
To further your learning and improvement, check out the following resources...
- Learn how to draw caricatures with Graeme Biddle.
- Discover how to use photoshop in a day. Makes everything so much simpler.
- Check out Chad Baldwin's digital painting techniques.
- Draw cars just like the pros, the pro being Tim Rugendyke.
- Want to learn painting? Look no further than Bob Davies' free watercolor secrets ebook.
