Simple Tools For Perfect Perspective Drawing

[@ProkoTV]

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[@illiria2000]

Hello there, I have a question. When does the “Mastering the Skills” portion start? Even if it’s a rough estimation on the time frame.

[@illiria2000]

Any word guys?

[@charnich]

@@illiria2000 We have a lot of content to get through in part 1 of the course, the absolute earliest "mastering the skills" could come out is August, but likely later than that

[@one-o-four889]

Some people have the gift of being incredible good teachers, and this video shows you the perfect example.

[@RichardThompsonCA]

This is embarrassing, but having been an illustrator for 30+ years it never occurred to me to cut my erasers down to create a sharp point! Thanks for that.

[@Chopin_fan]

Is this a dream or is it truly the long-yearned-for perspective course?!?!?!?!

[@yuiop271]

You are dreamin

[@ProkoTV]

It is! We've already even got a feedback video in the course! It's finally happening!!

[@tylerjamesnewton1422]

Adding this to the classroom this week. Perfect complement to my live figure drawing class.

[@lozantoninocreations]

The math nerd and art lover in me loved every second of that video. You brought my two favorite and best subjects together.

[@tarajones-legros3661]

Excellent presentation. This guy talks and instructs in the exact way I need to hear and learn!!

[@memosoto5472]

Simply BRILLIANT!!!

[@ivyclark70]

Thoroughly enjoyed the humour and lessons in this fantastic video! Must have taken a lot of effort and time to put it together! Thank you :)

[@verdiernoyama9681]

I love the production quality of this video. The animator does a great job.

[@ProkoTV]

Thank you! We appreciate everyone who added their creative skillset to the lessons in this course. They really elevated it and made it something engaging.

[@McNIMs]

the claymation is absolutely adorable

[@hanaaewas6809]

Thannnnnnk you so much very good work I like this tooooooooo much 👍👍👍👍😍👍👍👍👍😍👍👍👍👍🎯

[@dr.nagarajasharma6729]

Every art practitioner must know this. Thanks.

[@BlackDidThis]

BRAVO!!! I fail to find the correct words justifiably complimenting the quality of this video... To whom ever the video was due to being created and presented with such quality both in its explanatory (visual and conceptual) context and general flow of its ease to follow; I can not thank you enough for the efforts you have presented as since I have not seen much that can rival what I have just watched. VERY well done!

[@brotherfullmer]

Outstanding production!

[@malaikayara]

YOU ARE JUST AMAZING

[@СергейБаночкин]

Замечательная анимация, среди серьезного разговора о перспективе на плоской двумерной поверхности (бумаге, листе)

[@thefilmjerk901]

“ a good word that can intimidate rivals” 🤣 sold.

[@kevin_horticulture]

Thanks. I got to a point where I can do a lot of the perspective stuff through intuition, but my actual execution of it still needs a lot of work. These tips/tools are perfect

[@charlesdenney1]

Excellent video! Thank you 🙏

[@saguaro]

"If you like to press down hard, 0.7 allows you and 0.5 cures you" haha that's a good line

[@Lumi3957-y1i]

Thank you so much, great video!! 💞💞💞💞 I was thinking using rulers cheating too 😓 you totally changed my opinion about them, I was having problems with straight lines, i will practice to be at free hand drawing too, but until I will use a help from rulers!

[@waffleson45]

Ive always wanted to know what a t-square was for, thank you marshall!

[@santero59]

🔥🔥🔥

[@marilynbowe650]

Thank you!

[@ms00kye]

Perspective is awesome

[@Saiarts_yt]

I learned how to draw perspective for almost 9 years now. They first started out aerial or atmospheric but I loved to draw perspective since. I like drawing my perspective freehanded without using any particular tool at all.

[@andresquiroga2951]

Awesome video!!!

[@wildest_dream]

YES YESS AND YESS! Plz make more vids on how to improve drawing skills🙏🙏

[@ProkoTV]

I can absolutely promise we'll do that lol

[@kab6754]

Thank you for the video! It's reassuring knowing professionally trained artists require tools to help draw. I don't know why I didn't think of it before and now I feel silly but inspired

[@chadestioco]

Took a drink from the fridge before I played this video. I was learning a lot that I forgot I had a drink to start with. Amazing stuff!

[@ProkoTV]

We couldn't be happier to hear someone ended up with a room temperature drink lol Thanks for watching!

[@disfortunate]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@AnisCheurfa-m1m]

Thank u ❤

[@AaAa-je5eo]

I am unreasonably excited to do this course. 😁 Great stuff, Marshall and Proko! btw Team Proko, your link in description to the course is missing a "VE". Currently it's linking to a "Perspecti" course 😉

[@ProkoTV]

We're excited it's finally out in the world! I checked in on the link you mentioned and don't see it missing any letters but there's a possibility that another Proko team member already came through and updated that. Thanks for letting us know!

[@judgetoogood1033]

Thank yoy. 😊😊😊

[@ezeddrawer]

Someone told me, nobody asks wether you use reference or not, use every tool at your disposal to make the best art you can

[@kaizerkun6364]

Thanks

[@yuiop271]

Never thought a T would be called a square :) (In swedish its called t-ruler, angel ruler or t-angle. But in swedish off course)

[@mattbarker3489]

I hope that poor pencil gets some love in the next video 😢✏️

[@lanigirognithemos]

Well I learned something new lol. But seriously, my main problem with vanishing points is that in order for a drawing to not look distorted you need the VPs to be well outside your drawing area and unless you use like a giant board were you place thumb tucks with cords or whatever it's very hard to get the lines right so I was wondering if there is a way to figure out VPs accurately without having to actually draw them so you can calculate them properly on even a small drawing. So far no luck on finding such a technique :(

[@blankcanvas5619]

They don’t always have to be that far apart. It depends on where the object is relative to your cone of vision and the scale of the object as well. The whole idea is that you will practice these concepts long enough that they become intuitive so that you won’t have to draw vp’s (that is unless you are doing technical projections), but for the sake of imaginative creation it just isn’t necessary. All this being said there are perspective grids that can be used with light tables or just as reference that allow you to do just as you wanted. If you don’t like those, they also sell tools to create grids based on curvilinear principles, but they require a learning curve that I feel isn’t worth it when you could just draw the vp’s. Oh and a little trick that I just remembered is to look at and measure angles. What I mean is for ex. All corner angles on one face of a rectangular prism or cube I think should add up to 360 degrees and 180 for triangular prisms. So you can add the angles up to check if that particular face is in correct perspective. From there you would add the other viewable faces and make sure that their angles all add up as well. However I think this only works for axonometric perspective,so what I tend to do is offset the angles connected to the non leading vertices by one or a few degrees and that should get you close enough to the true angles leading to a vp.I know that this is a terrible explanation but hopefully you can understand what I’m trying to say. Anyway hope this helps.

[@plutus2559]

There is a video on this channel where Stan shows how to plot out the lines by dividing the space between them on the edge of the paper when they continue far outside to the vanishing point.

[@ahadart231]

So helpful

[@yutubl]

Best drawing / sketching tools: I recommend: 1. mechanical pencils (mine diameter sizes 0,3mm, 0,5mm and 0,7mm), 2. long straight ruler (30 cm = DIN A4 = large college/note block page size), 3. set square (triangular or half circular ruler) with angular scaling range from 0° to 180°, 4. good paper quality 5. on flat surface like a drawing pad or better drawing table (rulers on each side). 6. Today Digital Drawing: a) converting real (analog) hand sketches into digital you might use a camera (smartphone) with vector drawing software (PC CAD system) or b) directly digital drawings using a Digitizer Pad (or versatile Tablet/reMarkable) depending on your drawings sizes.

[@thorneblackwood3834]

Vandruff's style!

[@mandocoring9546]

>smol angle >smol things are cute >a smol angle >acute angle

[@SleepCriminal]

Wait, Pentel still makes Twist-Erase? These were always my favorite pencils, but I haven't seen them in years!

[@ProkoTV]

They do! Hope you get your hands on them again soon!

[@eryhv]

3:13 He said while buying his Pencils, Paper, and Rulers with the assistance of corperations. Okay for real though, fun and engaging tutorial, love it! Looking forward to the next.

[@RemoteGhost-u2t]

Thank you very much Marshal, I really do need to intimidate rivals😂.

[@original_pranxter]

When I was studying in drawing class they didn't allow us any tools. We were training to make straight lines without ruler and round circles without compass. It is very hard in the beginning, but then you don't need anything but pencil to draw. Think about it😅

[@albericponcedeleon2696]

3:56 Never has Marshall sounded more intimidating than this 8:38 And here he catches me off guard with a bald joke 😂

[@preethijayaprakasam8440]

Sir perspective in square or rectangular looks easy but when it comes to draw other shapes or an object it feel confused and hard to understand perspective

[@SaHaRaSquad]

The trick is to draw other shapes within bounding boxes as orientation. It's still difficult and needs practice but I don't think there's a shortcut.

[@preethijayaprakasam8440]

@@SaHaRaSquad thanks for the tip i surely will try it and practice more

[@vanceviggiano8551]

“Like my hairline years ago.”

[@MisF1998]

Poor Pencil. Leave my poor boi alone 😔 He may be plain and simple, but he gets the job done with my sketches.

[@RemoteGhost-u2t]

This feels like a villaim background story for the yellow wooden pencil😂

[@ProkoTV]

😂

[@H1dront390]

It hurts that the first thing I learned is perspective rather than the human body. It feels like I went to get shot at the kidney then wrote about it while it is bleeding out waiting for it to heal.

[@Kinemizu_13]

Ck ck ck,I feel sorry for the yellow pencil

[@pibyte]

Brain? ... Me have brain?

[@iseevideos6006]

Sure do we

[@nathannoel613]

😂😂😭​@@iseevideos6006

[@JayChase-x1w]

All I’m waiting for him to say is “I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.”

[@nyartisticwriter]

That poor pencil.

[@mamazuhause143]

🙋👍🍀🌷

[@copeasdf]

"But tools help us do what we can't do by hand." And then someone took it too seriously...

[@jasonirelan-ig5fl]

But you have to be mechanically inclined to use mechanical pencils.

[@nitwit4947]

You just effed up perspective drains. From somebody that has been doing it for 65 years.

[@ganeshparmar1752]

Please start drawing anatomy of male

[@ProkoTV]

Got a whole playlist of lessons that goes fully into male and female anatomy. Hope it helps! kzbin.info/aero/PLtG4P3lq8RHFBeVaruf2JjyQmZJH4__Zv&si=GuVQ4uG7EAgiebag

[@nichtrelevant2777]

i hear terraria death sound by the punch Right ?

[@youtubesucks5131]

nice, shit i can buy instead of drawing?? count me in

[@ProkoTV]

We hope that if you buy them, you use them for making some drawings lol

[@Dalacheese]

0:08 is that ai❓️

[@ProkoTV]

Definitely not. Marshall's been making these lessons for over a decade now, well before the public availability of generative AI.

[@KekPafrany]

Poor pencil :D They are the butt of the joke.

[@finrip7795]

Im early 😎

[@velcroman11]

IT’S NOT A RULER!!! It is a “rule”. A ruler is one who is the governor, the King. That person makes laws, rules. That person can make rules because they are THE RULER! To draw a straight line one uses “a rule”. If you are going to teach, don’t perpetuate falsehoods.

[@RonMaster825]

I had to stop watching. The AI voice is annoying

[@ProkoTV]

That's a human speaking and his name is Marshall Vandruff. Get your AI radar checked and consider what you're saying if you're wrong about that like you are here. You just ended up being rude to a person sharing their knowledge of perspective for free online to help teach people.

[@RonMaster825]

My apologies. We’ve been flooded with AI videos so much and I mistook the way the audio was cut as AI and stopped watching in frustration. I’ve since rewatched the video fully and found it very informative. Thank you for the free content.

[@rossmcleod7983]

Could do without the inane American comedy.

[@ProkoTV]

Everyone's got different tastes. Marshall definitely put a ton of his creative and comedic voice into this course. It might be hard to avoid that with these perspective lessons.