Drawing Cities 2 - Academic Perspective by fox-orian

I, like many others, struggle with perspective in a city scene ... this is the clearest instruction I've come across so far!  Thanks so much for doing this!

Thank you for the tutorial!

Thank you!

Hi Matthew, do you have any more advice on how to plot the horizon and vanishing points in a composition? like how high or how low should i plot the points that it's comfortable to look at? thanks in advance! : )

Perspective drawing... is starting to not look so scary or deterring to me now. Thank you for the tutorial!

Very nice tuts, like the idea, and tbh helped alot to me

and thx for giving me inspiration to draw now xD


btw, i'd suggest you to write, to use real life photographs for better and more quality work, either for inspiration , or even copying perspective, it can help alot for beginners and more experienced use it too..

keep up !

This tutorial is well don and actually teaches me.

Such a lovely tutorial, really clear.
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Wow, this is very very helpful, and inspirational. I didn't think that I could draw in different types of perspective, but I did! And it looks pretty good. Thank you for making this.

Pardon the spamming, but as I type this I'm also trying out small exercises like the ones you posted.

Thank you.

I love how you prove your point and make a 10 times better city illustration than I have ever made, just by shifting the horizon and focus points, and draw boxes for houses.

This inspires me to start drawing cities. Thank you

Well that was reallly something... the scene sure change a lot with a few adjust on the vanishing point and doesn't seems to difficult to do... Thanks for these tips!!

Watched!

Thanks a bunch Matt, you're awesome.

This is helpful! I'd like to get into backgrounds very much.

I love your tutorials *A*

For all those beginners like me: I tried to change my 'academic perspective' some time ago, and I have to say it works, absolutely, fox-orian is damn right. This is a good example (please Fox correct me if this perspective is wrong) [link]

I thought it was linear perspective? Or.. two point..

OMG, thank you. As someone who fails spectacularly at perspective (but is contemplating doing a comic FULL OF ARCHITECTURE WHY) this is super helpful. It's a simple reminder, but one of those things that is easy to overlook if it's not pointed out.

I love your tutorials; they're fantastic. <3

This relates to me so well. I think I'll go lie down for a bit.

Thank you so much for this, I have the worst time drawing cityscapes.

I love the perspective! you explained it really well!

So helpful! Perspectives are definitely my weak point. I've been trying to put it off, but I guess I have to practice them some time. Some people make it sound more complicated than it is, but your explanation makes it easier for my simple mind to understand.

I love this.
This gave me an idea of a computer digital art program that allows you to move the focus points, and the perspective lines move accordingly with, giving you perfect perspective.
Now I don't know if such a program exists, but I will use this tutorial from now on.
Great job!

Wow, I'm learning this in art class right now, and it took my teacher two, forty minute classes to (vaguely) explain what you have made perfectly clear with a few well-chosen words. I bet I'll get an A on my city-scape project thanks to this.

This is useful.

you are awesome!

Good gracious, man...I cannot say for the life of me how grateful I am for all of your tutorials. Not just this one, but your Perspective/Composition ones, as well. I must say, you've inspired me to take on much more complex scenery.

Thank you. c:

I have absolutely no clue why, but for some reason the illustrations in this caused the whole thing to just click in my mind. I never understood how the lines branching off the vanishing points were helpful (for some really strange reason) and was super intimidated to try using them. But now I realize how useful they are, and how it works.

So yeah, thanks for this!

i love these little street tutorials; drawing streets is one of my favorite things to watch and to practice, and though i'm not very serious about it, i do love learning more! super thanks

Great and simple tutorial

This works as a great reminder on perspective. I have not taken an art class in so long, it's amazing how much I have forgotten! Thank you so much!

That's true. I usually end up with the first "academic" model because I'm scared of screwing other perspectives xD
Thank you for doing these tutorials! They're encouraging and easy to understand ♥

Ok... cities... they're awesome I know... But can anybody do tutorial about landscapes T^T? Big empty spaces... Gawd...

Could you please answer my two questions about perspective? i know the basics and all.. but how to i know how far from eachother the vanishing points should be? has it got to do with the distance between what ur drawing and " yourself " ?

Secondly, if i draw, say, a box.. thats 10 feet from myself.. and its tilted in a slight way making it reach towards 2 vanishing points.. if i want to create a SECOND box.. right next to it.. 10 feet away aswell.. but in a slightly different angle... should the vanishing points of the two boxes have exactly the same distance from eachother? say its exactly the same boxes just angled in different ways..

thank you! :] good looking tutorial!

Thanks a lot, this is really helpful!

I've read all of your tutorials, keep them coming. they are mighty help

These are some helpful points. Thanks for sharing.

I'm really starting to like this series, great tips!

i think what is hard its not perspective but the capacity to make backgroud to imagine a character in an angle in a scene..that is the hard part to learn even thou it seems for everyone natural maybe