Perspectives Tutorial by DerSketchie

A perspective of the human body seen from intense angles. Something close up and personal is implied by drawing something that's so "inside your bubble". There's a few other examples of this that I wanted to put in but didn't have room. If I can think of a few more I may make a supplementary piece.

Lyle462 Featured By Owner Oct 25, 2017

Excellent drawings! Thank you for posting these. I'm a rookie with the human figure so this will help a lot.

jeluchez Featured By Owner Aug 13, 2017

hi folks, peace and health
someone can to give me some book to learn to draw the human body in perspective.
forgive me for my english, I from colombian. gracias

JohnlockedDancer Featured By Owner Jun 29, 2017 Hobbyist General Artist

This is great!

AntonioCremades Featured By Owner Feb 17, 2017 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It helps a lot those tutorials to be able to advance. Thank you very much for sharing them.

Martineij Featured By Owner Aug 21, 2016

I really want to draw comics and stuff and this will definitely help! thaaanks for the tut

This is so good

kingarthur-online Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2016

Wew..Thanks for the tutorial #DerSketchie ..So nice!

G-alien Featured By Owner Jul 8, 2016

Thanks for the tutorial!

DerSketchie Featured By Owner Jul 20, 2016

You're welcome!

IgnisDrakos Featured By Owner May 11, 2016 Student Filmographer

Awesome stuff man, the only single one that is looking a little bit strange is the centre one, the one with the knee up.

But I'm sure you realised that since the rest look so accurate

Seriously awesome stuff, keep it goin'!

DerSketchie Featured By Owner May 25, 2016

It's weird, isn't it? Real models though, so it's all there!

Meg-chan1391 Featured By Owner May 6, 2016

genial aun que nose ingles ;n;

Sinistral-Sig Featured By Owner May 6, 2016 Professional General Artist

Really Excellent!

itsgetingwirder Featured By Owner Mar 1, 2016 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks for the tutorial... it helps me alot drawing human

ZachriDaSamri Featured By Owner Feb 13, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

awesome thanks

artsykidatheart Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2016

Foreshortening always looks wrong to me even when it's done correctly, but from what I can tell, these seem pretty accurate. Thanks for providing them

My quest to be able to foreshorten properly continues...

Fabique Featured By Owner Nov 30, 2015

Wooooow, these few examples are superb. Thank you for the great tutorial resource!!!

Lykhaon Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2015

Loooooove this!

matarioshka Featured By Owner Nov 8, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you!

You did a great job!

harmlessteddy Featured By Owner Nov 8, 2015 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Oh gosh thank you! I suck at perspective so this will go a long way.

minni-lucy11 Featured By Owner Nov 8, 2015 Student General Artist

This is super helpful! Thank you!

sakpalamey Featured By Owner Nov 8, 2015 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Finally! I have been waiting for something like this.

kallielef Featured By Owner Apr 20, 2015 Professional General Artist

Hi DerSketchie, I wasn't sure if you'd answered this somewhere else, but have you found any books or materials that have helped you achieve people at different angles and perspectives? Thank you!

DerSketchie Featured By Owner Apr 22, 2015

Outside of just random short tutorials on the internet, no, unfortunately, I haven't

DeviantDanny2000 Featured By Owner Feb 5, 2015 Student Digital Artist

Thank you

RebellingLemming Featured By Owner Jan 31, 2015 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank you for this!

Bringer-of-Doom Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2014 Student General Artist

Now what's this we have here? Hello, little tutorial, you seem lost, how about I help you find-

*grabs the tutorial like a sack of potatoes*

INTO MY REFERENCES YOU GO

CainCainn Featured By Owner Nov 2, 2014

i have major problems with perspectives, so this is very helpful! Thank you so much!

thelineking Featured By Owner Sep 24, 2014

Hey Dude, your works are awesome. thanks for sharing with us! keep doing.

xDiamantenstaubx Featured By Owner Jul 5, 2014

very great work!
This helps so much!

dudgus2429 Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2014

Great!!

Tenshi-No-Hakumei Featured By Owner May 31, 2014

This tutorial helped me so much. To draw the body in a perspective like in this examples can be so difficult.
Thank you very very much !

steph0804 Featured By Owner May 14, 2014 Hobbyist

Oh wow this is so incredibly helpful-- thank you for making this!

Facelessdemons Featured By Owner May 8, 2014 Student Traditional Artist

Thanks so much for making this, it's extremely helpful!

HazeAlastorXIII Featured By Owner May 7, 2014 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Tnks for the references! Great work

TheSkaldofNvrwinter Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

yay, perspectives *runs away*

EveeGirl120 Featured By Owner Mar 20, 2014

Beautiful!! I love these types of art!

Themythicalangel Featured By Owner Feb 17, 2014 Student Artist

Thank you so much this will really help me with practice foreshortening

asoothingwind Featured By Owner Feb 5, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thank you so much for this!

caiobessalima Featured By Owner Jan 12, 2014

thaaaaaaankyouuuuuuuuuuuuu

Ryuustarx Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2014 Hobbyist General Artist

this is a really great reference..!

oldpinewoods Featured By Owner Nov 15, 2013 General Artist

These are awesome!!

insomniacClarinetist Featured By Owner Oct 18, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

How do you draw off of the focal point exactly?

DerSketchie Featured By Owner Oct 29, 2013

I always start with what I want to be the most eye grabbing as the focal point, then roughly work my way back. Start out with a kind of skeletal drawing for the body so you can keep the shrinking away effect proportional. I do agree with needthistool on the whole take-some-pictures-of-yourself, though. It a fantastic way to get reference material. Even better if you can get a friend involved, then you can just take the pictures from above or below as needed without guessing if it's at the right angle.

needthistool Featured By Owner Oct 29, 2013

There's not really hard and fast rules unless you know a character's relative proportions and even then it can be tricky, because usually limbs and such won't be all lined up with eachother. In that case you can just kinda draw geometric shapes in perspective (rectangular solids are easiest) and then make sure that say the arm or whatever you're currently drawing occupies the same sort of volume in a similar orientation.

If all else fails, take some stupid photos of yourself and/or an animal similar to the one your drawing, and use that as a basis, applying fisheye filters where appropriate.

That'd be what I'd say, anyways.

eerok1955 Featured By Owner Oct 14, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

thanks for all your tutorials, they are wonderful!

KatrineP Featured By Owner Oct 12, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

So useful!! Thank you!

Archivist15 Featured By Owner Oct 8, 2013

Thank you!

OctoGear Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2013 Student General Artist

I love you.

that's all i will say u_u

Schplitzkriegs Featured By Owner Jul 30, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Any advice as to how certain haircuts would look like from birds-eye-view? Make sure you can cover spiky hair as well, because I have a character whose hair is somewhat spiky and I have a hard time drawing him in such an angle because of his complex hairstyle.