cool so it is pretty much the same as the one point i learned only all below the hz line

today i am working on practicing what i have learned, so far it looks pretty good, wish i did not have to erase so much though..

Here's a quick 3 point perspective drawing. Each line goes to one of the points marked. On this scale, it looks passable.


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I'm away for the weekend! Be good and try not to break anything while I'm away!

like dave? lol..have fun

oops !!! wheres the super glue ???

While you are away, this picture I found on the internet, might keep some of you busy to come over the weekend without Steve.

Have fun.

You know Cees, when I visited Delft and Amsterdam some 8 or 9 years ago.. I was shocked to see these windmills.. It was so amazing how in my minds eye they were suppose to look different ..Little Dutch children running around in those cute hats wearing pinafores and wooden shoes, like in cartoons and drawings I had seen as a child.. Sort of like in a child's mind others who don't live in Texas still expect to see Cowboys with ten gallon hats and Indians riding horses and shooting guns and bows and arrows at each other.. Well we still ride horse,shoot guns, and wear cowboy hats but not like a TV western .. Ha !

Very lovely photo !!

thats a great photo cees..

i need a scanner as large as my tabletop..i tried to piece together what I worked on yesterday so you can see it, it is 12x18 sketch paper, with all the rain and gray skies, the camera wasnt cutting it.i added the color with my tinted charcoal.I am going to measure my scanner bed and start using that as my border so i quit running into this problem..

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and that still isnt the whole thing

Steve's post #104 shows the idea of 3-point perspective nicely - note that the building does not look crazily-distorted, because his VPs are sufficiently distant (if you put them too close to each other you end up with buildings from the "house of fun").

Kay - that drawing's looking very good - looks like you've now got the hang of 1-point and 2-point perspective


Dave

thank you dave, i have worked on that most of the day yesterday, cant wait till i dont need to erase so much

you guys performed a miracle here this week, literally dozens of books, (kept hoping one might strike me differently) lessons etc..none of them reached me..

Well, that's one of the big advantages of online forums - it's interactive - almost as good as having someone teaching face-to-face.

this one was more fun, i hate my scanner, it scans everything so pale..but at least you can get the idea there is more very light blue in the snow but my scanner refuses to show it

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i have just picked up on this thread today - been out of action for a while.
i'm going to try one of these drawing today and see if i can get it right.

this drawing was a reference photo in one of the weekly challenges, i did attempt it, but was wondering if the pro's could help me with the horizon lines etc.

Thanks a bunch

OK. The horizon line is just out of the picture, so the photographer was looking up. As you can see from my illustration, If you take two lines, where they cross is the horizon line. To verify this, take another two (if dealing with two point perspective) out the opposite way, and where they cross, strike a line horizontally. It should correspond with you first crossover point.


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Thanks Steve - it's a bit confusing... but i'm sure with practice i'll get my head around it.

Hi,
I'm new to this forum. Not sure if this is in the right topic. I taking a drawing class and learning about perspective and negative space. I am trying to draw a folding chair. Its not coming out right. We are drawing the negative space, not the actual chair.

Hello Katz. The principle will be the same. if you imagine the space the chair is going to occupy, and draw a few linesout to your horizon, it will be easier to see the spaces in between.

We often have to draw in perspectives regular vertical (or horizontal) lines, for examples windows or gates (see the first figure below). How to proceed ?

To understand the principle, consider the simple case of a rectangle divided vertically into 2 or 3 equal parts (see the second figure).
In perspective, if we draw the vertical divisions exactly in the middle, or in the proportions 1/3, 2/3, as shown in the second figure, it is of course incorrect.
If you know how to proceed mathematically in these two examples, you can approximately draw in more complicate situations.
The division by 2 is simple, the division by 3 is less simple. Who has the answers ?

A rectangular figure ABCD (figure (A)) has, in one point perspective, the form A'B'C'D' (figure ©). The vertical edges converge to the point O on the horizon line.
The problem is how to draw in perspective the division of the rectangle ABCD into 4 equal parts.
I suggest the following method.
You divide the rectangle ABCD vertically also into 4 equal parts, and draw one diagonal. Notice the intersections of the diagonals with the subdivision lines.
In perspective (A’B’C’D’), all the vertical lines converge to the point O. The diagonal remains a diagonal in perspective. Therefore you can determine the intersection points. These intersection points give you the references to draw the horizontal lines in perspective.

(Kay, if you don't have headache, see my second comment to Songsparrow's topic on perspective)

nice !
such an elegant solution to a problem that would've had me scratching my head for days !

after reading the instruction again and again and look at the picture with full attention, finally i understand it... thanks for the lesson its a big help.

okay, here a other side of perspective

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I need to sit down!

here another one

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there great

a drawing lesson in themselfs that first one is still messing with my head

going to try to draw that this weekend see if my head explodes

once more

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Raidor - you're bending my brain!!

My brain gave up and went out for a walk!