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Hey everyone! Due to all the hullaballoo about the ~Tumblr Purge~ I’d like to leave some links here just in case you want to find me elsewhere!

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2 rules of thumb.  Pushing in shape and/or pushing in pose.  I’ll do the pose here:

Hope that helps….. If I find time (I still have 40 questions to answer) I’ll do a mock up of shape extremes.

Cheers,

Brett

Tell your friends!  I plan on putting all these Q&A thoughts together in book form but I need the word out and the feedback to come if it is going to happen.  It’s a ton of work and I need to know y’all are interested.

How I work and my approach…

I have gotten a lot of questions about my approach over the years, so I hope this is informative for some. Maybe from time to time I’ll upload more like this, also I tend to go all over the place so bear with me, so it might not flow in terms of continuity. Sorry about my writing, I did this rather enthusiastically. Another note, what I mean “In terms of being an artist” is that as artists we are given a model to draw, but we each have our own way we see the world. That way of seeing is derived from the places we have each been and the things that grew on each of us over time. So working from that is really crucial in each person’s learning curve.

PERSPECTIVE & WARPED PERSPECTIVE TUTORIALS with Samples

Before you start reading my tutorial, please consider helping out a dying artist. I created this tutorial in hoping to bring people to support my activity on Patreon. Guess what?! Nearly 10K notes and only +60 people decided to back me up. I have always been supportive to improvement of aspiring artists, people eager to learn and have never asked for a single dime. I’m in a verge of giving up art and go homeless for real and once in my life I beg internet to support me.

Support me on Patreon so I don’t have to quite art. MY PATREON PAGE –> www.patreon.com/toshinho

I give up, but thanks. Enjoy the tutorial and have a nice day.

I’ve archived series of perspective & warped perspective tutorials that I made in the past with minor revisions and added samples. I believe some people have struggle with perspective probably because of the impression of complexity and the fancy terms that comes with it. I’ve met many artists that just didn’t want to deal with the all fancy terms like “3 point/4 point” perspective and walked away from it and I understand that feeling. Personally these terms are quite useless and that the important part of perspective drawing is really just capturing the dimension and getting use to it. (When I do perspective drawing I put very little consciousness in points & lines but towards how my brain is seeing the depth and dimension.)

When I first learned perspective drawing in elementary school art class, my teacher taught me the conventional method with ruler, lines and dots. While it provide accuracy, it tends to require alot of lines and wide space where your starting points existing way off the page and perhaps this might be the reason why some people find it tedious and hard to deal with. So I’m going to ditch using ruler and the fancy term and demonstrate them in much simpler approach.

I purposely build these tutorials in raw pencil rather than the nice looking digital tutorials because I want to show you that it’s not about the precision and accuracy that makes convincing perspective but a daily scribble and eye-balling. Treat them like any other drawing practice, doing tons of freehand and eye-balling to grasp the dimension in your head. I wont stop you from making a use of a ruler, however perspective drawing is a vital practice to improve your line work as well. (Personally when I use a ruler, my perspective looses the sense of dynamics and objects would look too uniform. Besides clean straight lines has no personality and can look dull at times.)

1 BOX - Method

The idea is that when drawing 2 squares with different size (having same or similar ratio) you have already managed to create an illusion of dimension. By connecting each corners with four lines you are dealing with perspective. The key to this practice is that you’re trying to place your consciousness on dimension and not towards drawing a nice looking box. Train your eye-balling by making use of the four extending lines from each corners to get the perspective line without the need of referencing the focal (center) point.

2 & 3 PLANE - Method (The lower portion of third image)

Basically it’s the reverse of conventional point based perspective. You’re not drawing from the point but towards the imaginary point. When you draw a square shape in an angle, you manage to create first step of illusion that suggest dimension, so this tutorial is trying to take advantage of that situation. (Tho it’s heavily dependent towards your EYE-BALLING SKILLS!)

4 FISH - EYE TUTORIAL

This is pseudo “Fish-Eye” tutorial that is trying to simulate fish-eye lens on a camera. The idea is that the object close to the center has fewer distortion and will cause more distortion as it gets further towards the edge of the lens (sphere). I believe that warped perspective requires a bit of confidence in handling normal perspective drawing. More so the sense in eye balling is needed, so get use the normal perspective drawing first and then start mixing warped perspective into your practice.

My 2 cent is that rather than using a big space on an empty page/canvas, draw a frame and then start drawing. (You can see me do that on few of my samples.) This tip apply to general drawing as well since “big empty canvas” can be a bit intimidating. By setting a frame or a border, it’s actually you’re first attempt on creating an illusion in a 2D space.

My final note is that even though you’re doing a freehand, a sloppy lines will break the illusion, so pay attention to where the line starts, how it flow and where it ends.

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Flow and Rhythm

PROBLEMS WITH STIFF DRAWINGS/FIGURES?? Maybe keeping the concepts of rhythm and flow in mind will help! (maybe)

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