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Published: 2013-10-16 02:36:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 3179; Favourites: 121; Downloads: 53
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Say hello to my super long, One Point Perspective tutorial. As requested. I hope it makes SOME sense at least. And yes it's full of spelling mistakes, I'm lame like that.This is an Advanced Drawing tutorial, so if you don't get it, don't panic. Just try it out one step at a time. Start with simple things like the boxes, and perhaps try drawing a lone object or two in perspective (it helps to have something in front of you like a mug or even your computer to copy) and build up to a whole illustration over time
The Perspective Lines used in this tutorial can be downloaded from here...
They are free to use without attribution, so run along and enjoy using them!
And here's the link to Stanley Kubrick's One-Point Perspective video vimeo.com/48425421#at=0
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Oh goodness this is beyond helpful.I'm gonna do a small perspective drawing with this tutorial as a guide.Would you like to see it once I'm done?
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Absolutely! I'd love to see what you make using this tutorial 
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I NEEDED THIS IN MY LIFEΒ
*totally snags the perspective guides*
Ima attempt to use it
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I hope it's helpful for you
I made it while working on my sci fi illustration and realising all I'd really made was decorated boxes that now look like buildings XD
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Thank you thank you and once again thank you. This is so much better than I would ever imagine. Really helpful! You should like write a how-to-draw book or something, haha!
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You're very welcome. I like to write tutorials that enable people to use the techniques in their own art, instead of "follow these steps and you'll get a chair.. but then you'll only ever be able to draw the chair in this one angle..."
Writing a how to draw book would probably be a lot of me rambling "look at shit.. and draw it.. and if it sucks, first pat yourself on the back cos you drew a thing, then look at shit some more and figure out why your drawing sucks.. and draw it again."
That's it. That's the secret to life the universe and everything. Even when it sucks celebrate having done something. Then work out how to make it not suck.Β
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im going to hang this on my wall and frame it with a golden frame!
this is perfect
thank you so much!!
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I hope it helps you out
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THANK YOU!!! I've been reading many, many drawing books at the library and this is the first decent explanation of perspective. Thanks!
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Many perspective tutorials say "draw lines, fit object in lines, VOILA PERSPECTIVE!" They don't go into enough detail. I might have been a bit repetitive, but with learning repetition is key.
I have always found perspective fairly easy but tutorials make it look like magic, not something easy. I find the minute you start breaking stuff down into boxes, the easiest of all things to draw in perspective) it becomes very easy. Even the fanciest of pieces of furniture I start with a box first.
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Yes and that's why I was was so confuzled.
I actually never thought of breaking it down into boxes....
Thank you! Just breaking down alone will help me a lot!
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Yes, since boxes are easiest to draw if you get them right you can then add the curves and such marvelously easily.
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This is incredibly timely! I was just thinking how I need to sit myself down and really learn perspective, it's a big aspect of my drawing that I need to improve upon.
I can't wait to read what you've written and put it to good use. Woo!
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I hope it's useful to you.
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Oh, it will be. I always enjoy it when you share your knowledge, you're such a good teacher.
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I might have done it this time and gone a step too crazy... but if people pick up on it then woo!
I'll defo leave 2 point perspective for another time XD
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Haha, I don't think you could ever go a step too crazy...every little bit helps!
All of your knowledge belongs to me! 
2 point perspective? Hot diggity! I'll certainly be eagerly waiting for that one when it comes.
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the craziest I've ever done was 5 point perspective...
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I've never even attempted 1 point perspective, let alone 5...you must be the perspective master!
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perspective is pretty easy if you just follow the "rules" of perspective as opposed to just making it up.
I'm always shocked at how easy perspective is when I start to build a scene. How easy and how impressive it looks.
What's often not easy is getting your head round it in the first place. The first perspective drawing I did I would have been 8 years old but because of the way my mind works I've never found it hard, I've just been too lazy to bother. That's why I made the guides so I don't even have to draw perspective lines first.. cos I'm lazy.
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I have several art books that "teach" the perspective techniques...but with my pea-sized brain and all the technical jargon I just could not understand it, I think it takes the right teacher who can explain it well in an "easy" to understand manner that can really help. I think the problem with most books is that they're written for people who already have some of that knowledge so to say that it's for beginners, and that it's easy is pishposh.
That's why when I saw you upload these tutorials I got excited. 
I'll certainly be using your techniques on my next illustration, I'm rather excited for that! Hopefully it will work out just fine.
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I find most how to books are bullshit cos it's like "start with perspective lines" "OK I can do that" "Now draw all this detail stuff like magic!"
Like the theory of it "the further away it is the smaller it is" is easy to get your head round, but actually putting it into practice is hard. Which is why I suggest drawing a bundle of just geometric shapes, triangles, squares, hexagons.. whatever, so your brain gets the idea of what perspective should do.
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it's how I learned in school. "Draw a cube. Draw another cube. Draw another one"
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Haha! The simpler the better.
I never understood why those books have to make everything so darned complicated. XD
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because they're trying to get their money's worth and tbh aren't there to help rather to sell books.. the best book I had as a kid was called "How to Draw Anything" and it was basically a book about looking.
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