Perspective Made Easy

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  @nataliarodrigues3252 · 2 years ago · pinned

  What an AMAZING way of explaining how to observe. I was only searching for some watercolors techniques to make a few cute drawings on my Christmas cards… 😅 I ended up whiling to become an artist/architect 😂 Thank you Stephen.

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  @ubermatoa8753 · 3 years ago

  HOLY SHIT, FINALLY SOMEONE WHO CAN EXPLAIN PERSPECTIVE WITHOUT IT SOUNDING LIKE GEOMETRY CLASS

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  @geobi1342 · 2 years ago

  Now I cannot unsee the lines in real life...

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  @myrrhis01 · 3 years ago

  This video is a huge help for me because it explains clearly, through examples, the WHY. I am a person who needs the why to really internalize understanding. Thank you so much!

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  @Nothing-Special4093 · 2 years ago

  I cannot believe in my over 20 years of learning art, in all the classes ive taken, nobodys taught me how to find the eye line/horizon line in a picture and what to do with that!! I feel like this video has changed the game for me and im not even finished it yet, thank you!!!!

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  @Powerphail · 3 years ago

  The fan analogy is such a great teaching device -- I always found the insistence that you should always locate your vanishing points in order to draw accurately very frustrating. I always felt, well what am I supposed to do when the scene I want to draw has vanishing point dozens of centimetres off the page?? Am I not allowed to draw those scenes if I don't have a very big ruler and a dozen sheets of paper?  I find your explanation of how you think about your perspective angles very practical and refreshing. Great work as always.

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  @thinkaboutthis572 · 3 years ago

  Students who are willing to learn can NOT fail to learn. <br>The failure is the teachers fault for failing to properly teach the information competently to the student.....<br>Well done sir...<br>You are a good teacher..<br>Lesson learned.

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  @DerrickDoodles · 6 months ago

  I just got a FREE perspective education that far surpassed what I learned getting my $40k degree. Bless you, sir.

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  @sapitos4 · 3 years ago (edited)

  You are absolutely right: NO ONE explains this in any YT video re perspective. It&apos;s not easy to grasp, I must admit. But by &apos;rewinding&apos; the vid two or three times on the particularly difficult points one gets the point. You make a lot of sense in your explanations. I think this have helped me a lot. Perspective is no picnic in the park, not even if you use &apos;pointillism&apos; to draw that park. :face-purple-crying: &nbsp;I&apos;m adding this: your last two drawings comparing a building with correct foreshortening with the wrong one (a square window at the distance) helped me see the error better. Thanks.

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  @spicexhoney · 3 years ago (edited)

  This is hands down the best video on perspective that I&apos;ve seen. I went to art school, foundational skills were breezed over. I never grasped perspective but I am going over the fundamentals once again and trying to relearn. <br><br>I can&apos;t overstate how helpful this has been for me. Something clicked, finally. I have been overwhelmed by perspective for years, I didn&apos;t even try anymore. Thank you for sharing!

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  @danieljamesbarton · 2 years ago

  All the swear words in ALL CAPS. I am gonna go draw now.....

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  @cameronrobinson3933 · 3 years ago

  My brain just exploded. I&apos;ve been drawing for a long time and one thing my drawings lack is backgrounds. Most of my drawings are an image floating in the middle of the page. They are good images and proportional and everything but I get lazy as far as background to return but now I&apos;m starting to see it is my biggest weakness and I want to start having background but I want it all to make sense. I have watched a lot of videos and perspective and have drawings the use perspective I&apos;ve never gotten deep into it. And one of the reasons why is as many videos as I watch one of the main questions that never gets answered is how do you figure out where to put your Vanishing points and the horizon line. Just like the artist all just know where they go and they show you you put a vanishing point here you put a vanishing point there and you draw your drawing but I&apos;ve always figured there&apos;s some kind of math like geometry back it accurately determine where these points go so it&apos;s not guesswork. Where to find the horizon line portion of the video has answered so many of my questions already. I just watched an hour-long video of the massive perspectives and I walked away more confused because I&apos;m not a mathematician. I understood the basic principles of everything he was saying but I didn&apos;t walk away feeling like I knew where to place Horizon Lines or vanishing point even though that&apos;s what the whole video is supposed to be about. Good job on this video I will watch more for sure my first one but will not be my last

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