Overview
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Learn about the principles of linear perspective and find out how to create perspective drawings in Photoshop.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Introduction
- Using the exercise files
- The three types of perspective
- Basic perspective terms
- The three types of linear perspective
- Preparing your concept sketch for perspective drawing
- Setting up vanishing points using the Path tool
- Stroking the paths
- Finding the first boxes in perspective
- Dividing a form in perspective
- Roughing in the other rectilinear forms
- Clean drawing
- Creating a flat crenellation
- Distorting crenellations into perspective
- Adding back sides to crenellations
- Towers and domes
- Basic ellipse anatomy
- Drawing ellipses in perspective
- The most common mistake in drawing ellipses
- Plotting measuring points
- Determining your master ellipse
- Building an ellipse bank
- Adding the final ellipses
- Dividing an ellipse
- Adding structural lines to the walls and bastions
- Adding repeating details to the walls
- Adding details to the domes and towers
- Delineating the background
- Recommended books on perspective
- Goodbye
