How to Draw in Perspective for Beginners

Step by step tutorial on basic perspective. Quick tutorial on one point, two point, and three point perspective. When drawing anything in perspective, try to visualize the elements behind the object. This will help you to see the volume of the objects. If this helps you, please consider supporting me on Patreon, / artofwei
►SUBSCRIBE kzbin.info_c...
One point and two point perspective is very useful, whereas three point perspective in not commonly used for general drawing. Unless you are doing some serious cityscape drawings.
►Learn how to draw with pencils with my step by step drawing tutorials. Let me show you how to draw anything from beginning to the end. For some subject like drawing animals, blocking in the basic shapes first is useful. For portrait drawings, starting with the eye is my preferred method of drawing. But whatever the subject matter or method, I will always show you the easiest and most effective way to draw.
What drawing level are you at? If you are a BEGINNER artist, watch my basic drawing and shading videos:
• Best Pencils for Drawi...
If you are an INTERMEDIATE artist, then portrait drawings should be a challenge to you:
• How to Draw a Pretty F...
Timed Drawing CHALLENGES:
• How to Draw Emma Watso...
Drawing ANIMALS is a great way to learn about form and shading. Learn how to draw horses, lions, elephants, sharks, etc here:
• How to Draw a Lion wit...
Learn how to draw human anatomy the easy way. These videos will show you how to draw the head, eyes, nose, lips, and hands:
• How to Draw the Head
Let's draw the human FIGURE in MOTION. Here are some simple steps to drawing great action poses:
• How to Draw Steph Curr...
Draw any kind of HAIRSTYLES, whether it is straight hair or wavy hair, here is how you draw great looking hair:
• How to Draw Straight H...
Want to draw GAME CHARACTERS? These game character drawings will help you draw with a more illustrative style.
CLASH of CLANS and CLASH ROYALE game characters:
• How to Draw Clash of C...
OVERWATCH game characters:
• How to Draw Overwatch ...
MORTAL KOMBAT game characters:
• How to Draw Sub-Zero f...
WORLD of WARCRAFT characters:
• How to Draw Grom Hells...
GAME of THRONES portrait drawings. Draw Khaleesi, Jon Snow, Tyrion, or a White Walker. More to come: • How to Draw Jon Snow f...
►To contact me, connect with me on my Facebook page. You can also send me your artworks there for critiques as many artist has done.
/ artofwei
►Check into my Instagram account to get sneak peaks on up coming videos
/ art_of_wei

[@veri0001]

*searches up perspective drawing Takes a look *Switches tab to a tutorial on how to draw straight lines

[@sea-goatbr7588]

Haha true. I never had troubles with straight lines. I used to trace good straight line in early highschool, but, god, I struggle with elipses. o matter how much I sweat trying to make then fast and clean. I just mess them up. You just have to keep practicing and practicing. ot only watching videos

[@accurategamer7085]

Use a ruler

[@tobiasgreeeen]

Step 1. Use a ruler.

[@masjter]

Hahha love it

[@redtiny802]

You can use a straight edge XD

[@dylannisart5979]

so I teach a drawing class at a art store and perspective is always the first topic I go over but I always have a hard time explaining it thank you for explaining it so well I feel that I can teach my class more efficiently now

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Wow, that's cool. I'm glad I can help instructors.

[@LuisNgchongJrArt]

its good to learn from other artist

[@princealmighty5391]

How can I draw prespective for flat objects that are front on from real life Any example please I cant find anything brother Like a desktop

[@Inahpeach]

You should post you tube videos since your an instructor

[@dylannisart5979]

@@Inahpeach You know I have really been considering it lately

[@KnowThyself619]

I tried this and was happy with the results until I tried drawing humans In perspective!! 😭

[@biancaking2502]

When i draw humans and i go to the eyes i see satan in them

[@TyionLurker]

I just draw furries

[@Mizar007]

Just study anatomy and apply the same principals to your perspective studies. You'll get there!

[@radoangelov1963]

Its the opposite for me

[@ahmadelachkar738]

are you Ugotsnibed in CD

[@ProjectWander]

Missed out on calling your channel "Wei of art"... damn.

[@njerujack]

damn, right? haha... Thank you for the tutorial kind sir

[@thecynster5625]

I was thinking the same thing. Such a shame

[@LuisNgchongJrArt]

hes great

[@Ariffzri]

Time stamp?

[@adrianascarvalho]

@@Ariffzri There is no time stamp.

[@joey7107]

this guy teach me 1 year worth of art class in highschool

[@insufficientfunds7689]

Right

[@Ezz_Fr]

1 year and the teacher only covered perspective? Das crazy

[@firestudio9992]

Twinkle twinkle little star Why is art so fucking hard Up above the world so high I cant draw the other eye

[@Monika-Madison]

This is going into my discord bio lol

[@numnum8357]

These lines look like they were drawn by a ruler.. ♡ Now this is a skill that differentiate between one artist and another...

[@guillotinegundam1233]

Odollete Blue its very easy to make a straight line use you're elbow

[@almadindean781]

+ikari shinji how?

[@guillotinegundam1233]

@@almadindean781 don't use you're wrist to draw a line move you're elbow.

[@jintuh3663]

In general you shouldn't use your wrist to draw. Use your shoulders and thinks will be a lot smoother and you prevent injuries in your wrist since it's actually very vulnerable

[@guillotinegundam1233]

@@jintuh3663 yeah

[@Maxer110]

Me:One point perspective meh. (2 points perspective)wow Me:(3 points perspective) HOLY MOTHER OF JOSEPH

[@pamelacardeno4530]

Sums up my reaction

[@sorianojosephanthony5282]

what do want with my mom

[@bryony.m]

David Enatoh haha

[@k.g.b.1150]

If you think that three-point perspective is hard just search up four-point perspective. You will like what you find.

[@bryony.m]

K.G.B. Now you’ve tempted me to go look

[@jeremydiaz9642]

Seems very tempting to say *_"The Wei of Art."_*

[@joaolucas1341]

The Chanel died

[@allscope8484]

Now it did

[@Topspeedcraft]

I'll talk about the process along the wei

[@ArtofWeiHo]

=)

[@uzahyuga4839]

XD

[@FirstArchitectureSchool]

Not only are you very talented but you also possess a rare gift for imparting your knowledge. Thank you.

[@Ccscenario]

He isn’t talented, he is skilled.

[@fortunamajor7239]

​@gabrielavila5892 saying the word 'talent' doesn't magically erase the practice that goes into one's craft lol. i wish people would get over this

[@dyangatas8827]

My cousin is a civil engineer and I'm looking forward to work with him someday as an architect. Thank you sir!

[@ArtofWeiHo]

good luck

[@sammone9525]

This is the wei of art. Yes, I know it's 2019.

[@joaolucas1341]

I also

[@user-om7gs1yl1g]

It's called art of wei

[@mariasanchez6040]

黄月芳 it was a pun lol. Like way of art, but wei

[@orionlax626]

@@user-om7gs1yl1g God, you're stupid.

[@B.hartmann]

@@user-om7gs1yl1g r/woooosh

[@templetoons1016]

In 3 point perspective when you said let this be the base, my reality started to crash in on itself, once it became the top, reality got restored. Thank you kindly.

[@purplenugget8466]

Me: oh this looks easy, I'm gonna try it Me 5 minutes later: oh dear god what did I just make

[@nondumbgd]

Tysm I wouldn't consider myself a "beginner" but I haven't practised any perspective yet, just characters and I think that's a mistake. This was super helpful and you explained everything so well. I had an art Block, my faces started looking wobbly and non-accurate, but I think it's because my lack of motivation on drawing. I tried perspective too, but this tutorial saved me from that hole. I will set on some alarms because I think consistant drawing is very important! You got a new sub man you are great😁

[@IbrahimAli-ck3lt]

My God 😳. He’s a human ruler.

[@kiriyamarei7358]

One point perspective always reminds me of a train coming far away

[@bestlyrics238]

I just experimented drawing lines without scale and it works immediately. Thanks for your artistic style. Appreciation for you.

[@smolbeanos7718]

Your videos help a lot. I can see my drawing skills improving after each video

[@WadeeAlsout]

You the only one who makes me watching his entire videos until the end ... without missing even a second

[@mattmod7603]

Great video - really appreciate the way you explained it so clearly. Feel more confident about trying it now. Thanks!

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Cool.

[@HoobleyWoobley]

I'm in a college level engineering class in my high school, the teachers been gone and none of the subs know wtf is going on. You just saved my ass. Much respect

[@xtdycxtfuv9353]

yeah that’s the state of education for u

[@solarlola5953]

So I need to have a good imagination

[@VixoL000]

Literally something I lack 😂

[@DatAsianGuy]

actually no. this actually is one of the easier things to do. only when you do some really complex stuff, you might need some good imagination, but there is nothing wrong in using reference. it is actually always good to use reference.

[@jerrinmathewgeorge4186]

Everyone has imaginational power...

[@jh-ij4by]

no i assure you my mind is blank i'm dumb as fck

[@artsysparks]

Then make thumbnail sketches to get an idea down on paper to make a draft of the composition before moving on to the final peice

[@adrianzendejas9171]

Very Cool basic drawings! Once I saw the horizon lines I could picture drawing cities or streets or even rooms. Made me very excited to try it out!

[@nathansa2978]

I am amazed on how straight your lines are

[@brianfreland9065]

You can use thump tacs and string to get perfect lines without the perspective grid. For 2 point just tie a string to each tac and stic each tac in a vanishig point...the you can pull the string in the center to wherever you want a corner or line and youll have a perfectly aimed straight line for every single line you make. Its pretty simple and rad and stops all the grid scratches and erasing. Have fun

[@S1cK292]

thx, didnt understand a word you just said but I am sure it made sense in your head

[@c.-o.8211]

You have such a reassuring vibe. You are really helping me, I thought I was going to give up sketching until I found your tutorials! Thanks!

[@Maxered]

I do follow the vanishing points; however, I don't do the perspective grid. I draw on a large enough area to put a piece of tape or a drafting dot where the vanishing point are and use a long ruler to do more complex perspective. One thing in this video that I find in three point perspective that your audience may find they may do, is worms eye view where the third vanishing point is above the horizon line. Otherwise good video!

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Yeah, that's the thing, most people don't draw on large pieces of paper. That's why I suggest people get use to visualizing the point off paper.

[@ozzyg82]

How do you decide where to put each perspective point? What impact would you be going for if you move perspective points around? Some examples would be nice. Thanks

[@sandraromero6831]

I found this video, it’s pretty long but I hope it helps. Also I know it’s more than 3years ago, but why not 😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3XEn3uan7V9jNU

[@cybrunel1016]

This helps a lot. I'm practicing shore lines and boats, seascapes etc... Very helpful, thank you.

[@lindakeuntje9468]

Joining others in thanking you for this very clear and easy to follow explanation. Just the basic intro I needed!

[@Fire-xl7wb]

Ohhhhhh now I get it!! Perspective is so much more fun now I can't believe I've been putting it aside. Thank you Wei!!!

[@tudda777]

please i am begging you 2 put it in simpler form 4 me a year later please

[@rogueskypilot4116]

Why on earth didn't you name this channel The Wei of Art

[@riariotraichu]

Beautifully and clearly explained, thank you for this!

[@p-vinni6422]

very helpful, one watch through and i can now draw pretty decent boxes. More importantly though, I can understand boxes.

[@gi9591]

hii! i learned this at school one point haha, i’m in 9 grade 💀 i really wanna be an architect in the future, you helped me a lot

[@piananiyigena231]

you're very good at teaching people like I was struggling with everyone else's explanation but yours.....

[@ProtoMan137]

Thank you so much! I never would have thought to be able to draw like that but some painful hours of exercise seemed to be worth it

[@michellemach4648]

Thank you ! I was watching 2 different videos about vanishing points and I was so confused. This makes so much more since. Thanks for the clear explainations. Wonderful video for me!

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Anne-zt2dz]

Thank you so much! I was struggling with this while trying to draw a city in art class, this video really helped.

[@ArtofWeiHo]

awesome

[@Metrometro282]

This helped me understand a lot. Thank you!!

[@cranberryjuice3469]

Thank you so much. this has helped me a lot because I've been trying to get into art but I don't how to do the basics

[@apollo4192]

I remember learning this is art class my junior year. Great refresher

[@animewaifulover1337]

Super helpful seeing you draw through the backs of the boxes and extending the lines to the vanishing points. I didn't understand that there is no guessing involved when drawing perfect perspective, though in practice there is tons of guessing when freehanding lol

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Thanks Solar

[@josieswan9526]

At last .. an explanation that I can understand. Excellent, Wei!

[@kian8862]

Brilliant. Thank you!

[@arthurfarenyuk9115]

This video helped a lot! Your way of explaining things is very simple.

[@Jan-fb6fd]

Many thanks, made lots of sense and easy to understand.

[@eaglefoundation6181]

Thank you so much sir . you explained very easily . I always thought that perspective is so tricky and confusing but now is pretty interesting.

[@MidosujiSen]

Best video explaining the basics of perspective I've seen

[@michelleyang1362]

thanks for your teaching.it's really helpful

[@america1311of]

thanks man, really helped out on how to start on enhancing my creativity through a perspective which I´m not really good at

[@Theresa914]

Great explanation and examples. Thanks for the video

[@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn]

It's funny, the best thing I learned was using dashes to show lines behind things. Might sound silly but I never thought of that and it is soooooo useful for me. The perspective lesson helps a lot too. Thank you for your video!

[@arpitalaad8717]

In love with your art❤️ It's really very informative and amazing .

[@jeremy0488]

Most simple and easy to understand video about perspective on youtube.

[@goldenstunder2495]

Thank you so much for helping me with perspective I've been having such a bad time drawing perspective

[@RuvimMironyuk]

Hi, Great work! What ive been having a hard time finding on youtube would be complex perspective. I see plenty of videos with straight line horizon perspective drawing but what i want to improve on is complex curved shapes overlapping shapes and the like. a good example would be anything standing at a 45 degree angle. For example i can draw the front of a horse i can draw the side of a horse but HOW DO I DRAW ANYTHING IN BETWEEN WITHOUT DISTORTING FEATURES AND USING PROPER PERSPECTIVE TECHNIQUES haha. hope you can help thanks

[@chandanaanil2249]

THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! LIFE SAVERRRR

[@lightoftheFather_]

Thank you, this helped a lot! God bless your talent!

[@mauriyu]

Thanks for making this! I’m trying to start animating and I wanna get to know how to imagine things in different angles to animate!

[@fourbirdstos]

This is really cool man! Thank you. I am going to have fun playing around with this. I love that you did this with a pencil and paper vs. a computer. Some kids these days feel as though one cannot truly draw anything without a computer and that is totally not true.

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Thanks Martin. Computer is great but nothing like the pencil.

[@josephlowry4320]

Thanks Wei now I can draw and draw my own buildings in many different ways by using Perspective.

[@rajeshgangadharanviscom21]

Simple and clean, thanks

[@xy7ofone]

Thanks a whole bunch ! This tutorial was super useful

[@claudiamendez7907]

Thank you Wei natural maestro perspective is the back bone of landscapes composition 🛤📐📏💜

[@WAZAAH]

Thanks for this video i am happy to get a start on learning this more easy because i hope to use this for animation to make a better visual background.

[@nashyolgyx9007]

This tutorial helped me alot in perspectives. THANK U...

[@user-rz3kx3es6s]

Sooo helpful, thank you man !

[@martybalash]

Great, great lesson. Thank you!

[@stinkypete7917]

This is a good lesson. Thank you.

[@insertgamerhere2121]

This is by far the best tutorial on technical drawing super useful

[@ninjagraphics1]

Thanks for this tutorial Wei!

[@StoneCold-xh2uj]

Thank you. Needed this and it helped

[@wilihey1425]

This was incredibly useful thank you

[@maprangprangzaza8501]

Excellent educative video I’ve seen so far.

[@hotarur.8963]

I love this video ! Thank you !!

[@3rdeye7thdimension]

Good refresher, but now with a little more of an experienced eye, theoretically, you should be able to create a "stalactite" with the three point perspective, following the lines upward, right? And, how about other shapes created with the three or two point perspective, like a pyramid, sphere, or cylinder?

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Hey, that's a great idea. I will do a perspective video on other geometric shapes.

[@oanamaria8674]

Great tutorials! I see that perspective is very important for 3D and dynamic effect in drawing. Also I like your tutorials for artistic anatomy studies. It helps me very much.

[@eva7290]

This was really good and well explained, thank you very much! :)

[@mariehosker5672]

thanks! My students love this unit

[@Greenaddiction73]

Thanks, really helpful for beginners

[@EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm]

Very interesting and instructive. Thank you

[@graceetheridge3477]

This was really helpful since I’m really bad a drawing perspective so thanks!

[@toomanyprojectstx]

Thank you for helping me get started. :)

[@lisamcmillon3743]

Thank you for helping me!

[@gB-gm7vy]

This guy’s “freehand straight line” game is next level .

[@sorindyy8622]

Thanks for explaining this in such a simple way 😊

[@ArtofWeiHo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MilkyAnimations]

thankiu, im learning a lot about perspective, thank you so much :D

[@sushiengine9179]

Very simple & very nice . Thank you

[@LessSupremeAbility]

thank you for making me a master

[@getlost1574]

Thanks for knowledge

[@arandomguy410]

Trying to find out what makes orthographic different from perspective when drawing, damn this is really helpful

[@arkticark8955]

This helped me so much aaa ty

[@mariegamber]

Wonderful tutorial. Thank you.

[@drawinfo99]

Awesome video and useful pieces of information. Thanks for your work! :)

[@jaytamayo4694]

This is better way of showing simple perspective. One told me on FB after I shared my very rough sketch with perspective and told me that not how you do it and not the right thing to evaluate how much it could cost. He didn't know what's behind it. The sadness behind it. I drew that not to show perspective. A simple draft of a tiny condo looking unit. That is for myself and for fun I shared it too. Yes, things now are far expensive that I thought!

[@funny-shorts93]

Thanks you helped me.

[@vincenttroiperano5256]

I really like your videos 🤓, i apreciated nore about it, also im taking up architecture hoping to get these goals 💪💪💪