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Tutorials on Perspective

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Submitted by souri on
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Anyone got some good handy tutorials on perspective and construction lines? I gotta clue myself up on that stuff. Did some pretty basic perspective illustration the hard way in graphic design, but I'm clueless as to how really detailed scenes are made.

Submitted by Gibbz on Sat, 19/02/05 - 1:11 PMPermalink

what program are you using? something like illustraitor(vector software) will be easier to use than somehting like photoshop, i know because ive done it in both.

dont have any tuts tho...

Submitted by Makk on Sun, 20/02/05 - 4:18 AMPermalink

This seems to be teh only one I know of-
http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/perspectives.html
Perspective is a real biatch when doing complicated objects!!

edit: painter 8 (and probably other versions of it) has a built in perspective grid that you can toggle.
Its under Canvas>Perspecitive Grids> Show/Hide Grid
Its only a one point though, but still pretty handy.

Submitted by Reactor on Wed, 02/03/05 - 5:01 AMPermalink

Check out the book "Perspective Made Easy" by Ernest Norling. It teaches some good foundations, which will easily allow you to work up to bigger scenes. Plus, it's cheap to buy ;)

Posted by souri on
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Anyone got some good handy tutorials on perspective and construction lines? I gotta clue myself up on that stuff. Did some pretty basic perspective illustration the hard way in graphic design, but I'm clueless as to how really detailed scenes are made.


Submitted by Gibbz on Sat, 19/02/05 - 1:11 PMPermalink

what program are you using? something like illustraitor(vector software) will be easier to use than somehting like photoshop, i know because ive done it in both.

dont have any tuts tho...

Submitted by Makk on Sun, 20/02/05 - 4:18 AMPermalink

This seems to be teh only one I know of-
http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/perspectives.html
Perspective is a real biatch when doing complicated objects!!

edit: painter 8 (and probably other versions of it) has a built in perspective grid that you can toggle.
Its under Canvas>Perspecitive Grids> Show/Hide Grid
Its only a one point though, but still pretty handy.

Submitted by Reactor on Wed, 02/03/05 - 5:01 AMPermalink

Check out the book "Perspective Made Easy" by Ernest Norling. It teaches some good foundations, which will easily allow you to work up to bigger scenes. Plus, it's cheap to buy ;)