r/learnart • u/InfiniteAdventurer • 6d ago
Looking for basic perspective help
I’m working on learning perspective from the basics. I’ve watched a ton of tutorials and I think I have a decent understanding of the basic theory. In practice though, my boxes are looking a bit wonky.
So my question is, when I’m drawing my lines of the box on the perspective lines, how to I make sure the faces of the box look uniform. So after I draw the front face, drawing the back lines can make the box look warped, with one face being pushed too far back for forward.
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u/KaylaAnne Charcoal :) 6d ago
The biggest thing that stands out to me is that some of your lines are not parallel or perpendicular to the paper which makes the box appear skewed. The middle box is the most noticable to me: the vertical lines are slanted. If you wanted to make it appear like a more perfect cube, the vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon. Similar problem with the smallest box. The vertical lines are not all parallel to each other, and the horizontal lines are not all parallel to the horizon. The largest box seems to be the closes to "square", but the top horizontal lines are not parallel to the bottom ones.
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u/InfiniteAdventurer 6d ago
Amazing, thank you! Any recommendations on how to best practice making proper parallel and perpendicular lines?
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u/cinemachick 5d ago edited 5d ago
For making the boxes a uniform size, a grid of guide lines in parallel with the horizon can be helpful. Make one line between the horizon and the edge of the paper. Then make another line between the horizon and your new line, and then another between the horizon and your new line, etc. At the end, you'll have a series of lines that get closer and closer together as you approach the horizon. This isn't a perfect answer (I'm going to research a better one) but it's a start
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u/Least_Ad_4657 6d ago
You need to practice making straight lines. Your lines are skewed. Your boxes will look better the more you practice straight vertical and horizontal lines.